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Devo and The B-52s are teaming up for the “Cosmic De-Evolution Tour” this fall.

The 11-date co-headlining jaunt kicks off on September 24th in Toronto, and also touches down in including Clarkston, Mi; Mansfield, Mi; Holmdel, NJ; Wantagh, NJ; Mountain View, CA; Los Angeles, CA; Charlotte, Nc; Atlanta, Ga, Austin, TX; and Houston, TX.

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The outing is part of both bands’ respective farewell tours, with plans for the trek first taking shape when they appeared together at SNL’s 50th anniversary celebration earlier this year. “When both of our bands performed at the recent SNL50 concert at Radio City, we started talking and agreed we had to do these shows” explained The B52s’ Cindy Wilson.

Two titans of New Wave, the B-52’s and Devo, will team up this fall for the co-headlining Cosmic De-Evolution Tour.

Although the B-52’s embarked on a farewell tour three years ago — they’ve since confined themselves to a Las Vegas residency — the idea of joining the “Whip It” troupe on the road proved too enticing to ignore. The two bands recently linked up (alongside Fred Armisen) at the all-star SNL 50 concert and discussed the venture.

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The brilliant career of New Wave icons the B-52’s will be chronicled in a lavish new box set, The Warner and Reprise Years, which will bring together the nine albums they recorded for the label from 1979 to 1992. The set, which arrives on June 20 in celebration of Pride Month, collects each album in newly remastered, colored vinyl pressings: their 1979 debut The B-52’s (on yellow vinyl), 1980’s Wild Planet (red), the 1981 remix record Party Mix! (green), the 1982 EP Mesopotamia (blue), 1983’s Whammy! (smokey), 1986’s Bouncing Off the Satellites (pink), their...

Thirty-five years ago, Athens eccentrics the B-52s experienced one of the greatest, if most bittersweet, against-all-odds comebacks in pop music history. After the 1985 death of guitarist Ricky Wilson, they’d done little promotion for their fourth album, Bouncing Off the Satellites, which was recorded while Wilson was secretly battling AIDS and released just 11 months after he tragically succumbed to that disease at age 32. The future of the B-52s at that point seemed in doubt, but then surviving members Kate Pierson, Fred Schneider, Keith Strickland, and Cindy Wilson (Ricky’s sister) regrouped. The result was 1989’s Cosmic Thing, a surprise mainstream smash that catapulted the band to MTV superstardom, thanks to effervescent partystarters like “Love Shack” and “Roam.”

Only drummer and composer Strickland — who would later take over guitar duties for the band, teaching himself Ricky’s distinctive, three-string, spy-movie-sonics style — was aware of Ricky’s illness at the time,...

Former Saturday Night Live cast member Fred Armisen pulled double duty during the first half of the SNL50 concert at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on Friday night (February 14th). The funnyman played drums for a pair of legendary new wave bands: The B-52s and Devo.

First up, Armisen teamed up with the B-52s for a rousing rendition of “Love Shack,” joining the Roots in backing founding B-52s members Fred Schneider, Kate Pierson, and Cindy Wilson.

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Midway into the tune, current SNL cast members Sarah Sherman and Bowen Yang appeared onstage, engaging in the “bang, bang, bang” call-and-response portion of the song.

Just a short time later, Armisen manned the kit as Devo took the stage for “Uncontrollable Urge.” The comedian kept a steady beat as singer Mark Mothersbaugh and company ripped through the tune that apparently earns the vocalist...

Update: First Lady Jill Biden said that The B-52s will no longer perform at the White House State Dinner on Wednesday, and that guests instead will listen to music from the “President’s Own” United States Marine Band and the Army and Air Force Strolling Strings.

The change — from the relentlessly upbeat B-52s to the more sedate instrumental music — was made given the multiple crises in the world, Biden said.

“While we had initially planned for legendary B-52s to perform their iconic dance and party music, we are now in a time when so many are facing sorrow and pain, so we made a few adjustments to the entertainment portion of the evening,” Jill Biden said.

The dinner will be for Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and partner Jodie Haydon. Biden said that The B-52s will still attend the event.

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Singer Julee Cruise, best known for her collaborations with director David Lynch, but who also who served as a touring member of the B-52s and Cindy Wilson’s stand-in for a considerable stretch in the mid-1990s, passed away June 9 at the age of 65, her husband Edward Grinnan shared in a social media post. For fans of …...

Julee Cruise, whose ethereal singing could conjure both nostalgic innocence and a menacing present, making her an ideal musical collaborator for David Lynch and the Twin Peaks director’s go-to composer Angelo Badalamenti, died Thursday. She was 65.

Her death was announced on Facebook by husband, the author and editor Edward Grinnan. A cause of death was not disclosed, but Grinnan wrote, “She left this realm on her own terms. No regrets. She is at peace.” Cruise disclosed in 2018 that she suffered from systemic lupus.

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Grinnan posted the message on the Facebook page of the band the B-52s. During the 1990s, Cruise often performed with the band, filling in for original co-vocalist Cindy Wilson when needed.

In the Facebook post, Grinnan wrote, “For those of you who go back I thought you might want to know that I said goodby to my wife,...

Singer Julee Cruise, whose haunting voice made her a favorite of filmmaker David Lynch, has died at 65. The news was confirmed by her husband, Edward Grinnan on Facebook, per The Guardian. “She left this realm on her own terms. No regrets,” he wrote. “She is at peace.”

Grinnan added, “I played her [B-52’s song] ‘Roam’ during her transition. Now she will roam forever. Rest in peace, my love.”

Born in Iowa in 1956, Cruise worked with Lynch on several occasions. Her best-known song was “Falling,” released as part of her 1989 debut album Floating Into the Night.

Jason Isbell’s guitar foil Sadler Vaden, Philadelphia songwriter Roger Harvey, and Dierks Bentley’s alter-ego Nineties group all have songs on this week’s list.

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A solo artist, modern-day guitar hero, and longtime member of Jason Isbell’s 400 Unit, Sadler Vaden has spent the better part of a decade carrying the torches for Americana and rock & roll. Here, he nods to his classic-rock roots with a song whose six-string heroics are steeped in the funky, fiery influence of Joe Walsh.

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The B-52s have announced a world tour commemorating the band’s 40th anniversary. The 43-date trek includes a headlining North American summer run along with European dates and festival appearances. Tickets for the 43-date trek go on sale on Friday. Omd and Berlin will serve as support on select dates.

The tour kicks off on May 4th in West Palm Beach, Florida at Sunfest. Following a string of dates throughout Europe in June and July, the band heads stateside, beginning in the West Coast on August 1st at Pacific Amphitheatre in Costa Mesa,...

After learning from PETA that Carson & Barnes Circus recently used the B-52s songs “(Meet) The Flintstones” and “The Bedrock Twitch” in its controversial elephant act, the band sent the circus a cease and desist letter this morning demanding that it stop using their songs — and urging it to end all animal acts as other circuses have.

Referring to this footage of the circus that performs nationwide and supplies elephant acts to other circuses around the country, singer Kate Pierson says in a new PETA video, “The man in this elephant act was caught on tape by PETA beating the elephants with bullhooks and jabbing them with electric prods…. [O]ur message to our fans and our friends and our families is stay away from cruel circuses and go to some great circuses … that don’t use animal acts.”

The B-52s, who are playing 60 shows this year as part of their 40th anniversary tour,...

With a June 1 date at Philadelphia’s Sugar House Casino, The B-52s – the toast of Athens, Ga and avatars of the dance-punk movement – officially kicked off its 40th anniversary summer tour. That The Bs founding brain trust of Kate Pierson, Fred Schneider and Cindy Wilson was, and is, still intact, energetically performing their fun, frantic classics, drove the Philly audience to zealously enthusiastic and participatory action.

Forty years after they dropped their first single – “Rock Lobster,” recorded for Db Records – Schneider’s fiercely playful call to action to go “Down, down… Let’s rock” still inspired a sold-out roomful of fans to snorkel and crumble in place.

“We all still laugh at the same things and have a sense of each other — and the absurd — that influences each other,” said Schneider just before the Sugar House show. “I would never dream of doing it this long if I didn...

"Are you kidding me, man?!" composer Angelo Badalamenti howls jokingly when Rolling Stone asks him what he thought of Twin Peaks, the TV series he scored in the early Nineties. "It was really off the wall. I thought it was either going to sink violently down the drain or, hopefully, capture the intrigue of enthusiastic people conversing by the office water cooler on a Monday morning."

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The B-52s: With The Wild Crowd: Live In Athens, Ga marks a historic hometown gig by the fun-fun-fun pop-rockers at Georgia’s Athens Classic Center.

Taped in Febrary, 2011 in honor of the 34th anniversary of their debut performance, the B-52s–Fred Schneider, Kate Pierson, Cindy Wilson and Keith Strickland–bring the party back home with a brightly colored, full-on performance. The group’s 18-song set of syncopated funk and signature grooves includes such favorites as “Love Shack,” “Rock Lobster,” “Roam,” “Private Idaho” and “Mesopotamia.”

An audio CD of the concert was released in October, 2011.

Here’s a complete track listing:

1. Pump

2. Private Idaho

3. Mesopotamia

4. Ultraviolet

5. Give Me Back My Man

6. Funplex

7. Whammy Kiss

8. Roam

9. 52 Girls

10. Party Out Of Bounds

11. Love In The Year 3000

12. Cosmic Thing

13. Hot Corner

14. Band Intros

15. Love Shack

16. Wig

17. Planet Claire

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Jamestown, New York (Reuters) - More than 900 red-lipsticked, redheaded women -- and men -- gathered near a "Vitameatavegamin" sign in the hometown of "I Love Lucy" star Lucille Ball to mark her 100th birthday over the weekend, setting a world record for most Lucy look-alikes.

Sporting upswept hairdos and blue-and-white polka dot dresses, Saturday's crowd of 915 Lucy Ricardos established the first Guinness world record in her honor. It was all part of the annual Lucy Fest in Jamestown, which drew fans from as far away as Australia to the normally sleepy town of 30,000 people in upstate New York.

"This is a once in a lifetime experience. It has to be the best time in my life," said Cindy Wilson, 22, of Cleveland, Ohio.

Wilson started watching the "I Love Lucy" show in reruns when she was 7 years old and has a Lucy stick figure tattoo on her left foot,...