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Eschewing everything but the pursuit of fun, Athens, GA's B-'52s burst onto the New Wave scene in 1979. Their mix of '50s/'60s kitsch and pure pop instincts produced some classic campy tunes ("Rock Lobster," "Private Idaho"). The band's popularity hit new peaks a decade later with the release of COSMIC THING and the huge hits "Love Shack," "Roam," and "Deadbeat Club," showing how fully the group had penetrated the pop-culture landscape.
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A week from Today (March 25) the B-52's will release Funplex(Astralwerks) their first album of new material since 1992's Good Stuff(Reprise), BUT today you can listen to the entire album streaming via AOL Music.
CLICK HERE to listen!
The band took a long time to shop the album around to different labels in order to secure favorable intellectual property rights to the music, something previous record contracts did not afford them.
Funplex album came... MORE
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Here's another one off the upcoming B-52's album Funplex. Fans are gonna dig it.
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Lately I have been exploring my love of comic books. My son Alex and I have been reading 'The Marvel Universe Handbook' together.
Marvel has always been my bag, though I will say DC has the costumed adventurer I always wished I could be. That was the Flash.
Growing up on a piece of isolated farmland in Pennsylvania my mind tended to wander. I read a lot (big surprise there) and one of the things that was in constant rotation (at least in monthly installm... MORE
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It's been 16 years since we've gotten a new B-52's album. The wait will be over March 25. Meanwhile here's the tile track.
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The last time the B-52's released a studio album Texas billionaire H. Ross Perot was a Presidential eventually losing out to a young man by the name of Clinton.
Recently the pioneering new wave rockers announced their first studio album in 16 years; Funplex (Astralwerks) is slated to drop March 25.
Originally founded in 1976 in Athens, Georgia the B-52's have maintained a consistent sound with a fan base that spans generations. In their 30 year career, the group has... MORE
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The B-52's announced on their website that they have recorded a new album that will be released early next year! Better yet, they say there will be more electronica on it - HORRAY ! Here's what they just added to their Bio page:The B-52’s have just completed recording a brand new album, their first in 15 years, with producer Steve Osborne (KT Tunstall, New Order, Manic Street Preachers) and programmers Damian Taylor (Bjork) and Pete Davis (New Order). Set for an early
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The B-52’s have just completed recording a brand new album, their first in 15 years, with producer Steve Osborne (KT Tunstall, New Order, Manic Street Preachers) and programmers Damian Taylor (Bjork) and Pete Davis (New Order). Set for an early 2008 release, it maintains the band’s classic party vibe, but with a more modern direction. "There's more electronica on it," he said. "It's up-tempo and a bit sexed-up. It's sexier than ever,” says Fred.
There’s no doubt that fans ar... MORE
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...pardon the Obi Wan-Darth Maul, Jedi look but the A/C in this building is boomin' and it's colder 'n a witch's titty where I'm sittin'...never knew there was an Arctic Circle setting on that thing, so I've been rockin' a hoodie while at my desk...too, I've been on the phone waiting for the last half hour while the IT guy sorts out my email clearances and such shite...so, in the interim, I've been cleaning out the desk of whomever was in this office space before me to keep ... MORE
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Me: Oh no.
Carolyn: Yoko?
Me: Nooo...
Tracy: Hunh?
Me: We're bombed.
Carolyn: It's so hot.
Tracy: Wanna step inside my reality?
Me: It's 5:00 p.m.
Carolyn: They should have, like, misters out here.
Tracy: Like my body?
Carolyn: What are you saying?
Tracy: Nuttin', honey.
Me: Not the mama.
Carolyn: No...
Me: The napkin... it says there's a two margarita limit.
Tracy: (Sings like Bjork.) THERE 'S NO LIMIT !
Me: Yah, there is.
Carolyn: Global warming, like, e... MORE
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ATLANTA - Fifteen years after their last album of new material, The B-52s are wrapping up work on their next one. The quirky dance-pop outfit, which burst onto the new wave scene in 1979 with songs like “Rock Lobster” and cracked the pop charts in the late ’80s with the party classics “Love Shack” and “Roam,” returned to their hometown of Athens, Ga. to finish recording the as-yet unnamed record. “We all lived down there for two months and just got back in the swin... MORE
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3Just Wednesday, but it feels like a cause to be celibate, oh I mean be celebratory.... ...underneath a strobe light. "Where's my telephone?" "Is that you baby?"
"Yeah." "Got something to tell you."
"Oh, what?" I want to see you tonight
I want you to walk in the door
I want you to lay on the floor
Cause tonight's the night
We make love, under a stobe light
Underneath the strobe light Wanna make love to you under the strobe light
Wanna ma... MORE
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Does Parker Posey even REALIZE how much she owes Cindy Wilson???? Cindy is just so groovy and cute as a button in the video for "Song For A Future Generation" from the 1983 B-52's album "Whammy!" - in fact the whole band seems like they've either having a very good time, or they've been dosed with windowpane and set loose on a 1960's variety TV show set. Not much to say other than forget "Love Shack" and give "Song For A Future Generation" a listen - an essential 80's tra... MORE
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Happy New Year everybody. Think of me as I'm falling asleep during my very expensive pre-fixe dinner.
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2This album has to have some of there best songs on it. I listen to it alot.I have to say that Give Me Back My Man is the best on there and also rock lobster. They may not may not be around anymore but there music's still great.
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I consider myself to have a really crappy, well-paying retail job. Its hard to walk away from my earned vacations I get. Every single day I'm subjected to a mentally abusive array of adult contemporary filth. Jewel side by side with Texas, Paula Cole's "I don't Wanna wait" and Paula Abdul's "Rush, Rush." This happens every single day. I must admit that though the bitterly repeated music selection though very oppressive, they do give me about three or four minutes of orga... MORE
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