The B-52s Still A Cosmic Thing

In the decade of the 80s, the B-52s produced five albums with a combined total of five times RIAA Platinum and two times RIAA Gold in sales.

Author:

Carol Anne Szel

By Carol Anne Szel — The B-52s gave the music world one of THE catchiest songs ever created — "Love Shack." How many of us remember singing that song, loud and with reckless aband back in the day? "Bang bang. Your what?.... Tin roof, rusted!"

In the decade of the 80s this band produced five albums with a combined total of five times RIAA Platinum and two times RIAA Gold in sales. And now, 33 years and seven albums later, The B-52s are embarking on a jam packed number of shows this summer taking them literally crisscrossing America as their journey marches on!

Add to that the fact that they are nominated for the Video of the Year award at the 2010 CMT Music Awards Show airing in June! How did that happen you ask? Turns out the B-52s (who officially dropped the apostrophe from their name of "B-52's" in 2008) sang a duet with the country band Sugarland at last years CMT awards show and are now nominated for that clip! It exhausts me to even think of all that!

With hits like "Love Shack" and "Roam," the B-52s have remained true to their identity after all these years. Hailing from their humble roots in Athens, Georgia, Kate Pierson, Keith Strickland, Cindy Wilson, and Fred Schneider are one of the bands that truly fused the sounds of rock/punk/new age in the 1980s.

You can catch them out on tour at the following locations:
The Tires Kingdom Stage - Sunfest
West Palm Beach, FL
May 2, 2010

La Zona Rosa
Austin, TX
May 15, 2010

Majestic Theatre - San Antonio
San Antonio, TX
May 16, 2010

Ram's Head Live
Baltimore, MD
May 22, 2010

American Music Theatre
Lancaster, PA
July 13, 2010

Wolf Trap
Vienna, VA
July 14, 2010

Penns Peak
Jim Thorpe, PA
July 15, 2010

Ravinia
Highland Park, IL
July 21, 2010

HullabaLOU Music Festival - Churchill Downs
Louisville, KY
July 23, 2010

Frederick Brown Jr. Amphitheater
Peachtree City, GA
July 24, 2010

Pacific Amphitheater
Costa Mesa, CA
August 5, 2010

Uptown Theatre Napa
Napa, CA
August 9, 2010