Despite their love of jokes, puns, and non-sequiturs, the legacy of the B-52’s is best stated bluntly: they are arguably the most consequential queer band to have ever existed. While most people know ...

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 ...

Three years ago, the B-52’s set out on what the group said would be its final farewell tour. And yet, the group is still here — quirky tunes, bouffant hairdos and all. “It’s hard to quit. It really is ...

In 1991, my world changed. I’d been spending absent days in my suburban Pennsylvania middle school hiding in bathrooms with two friends who felt interim while the popular girls danced to Color Me Badd ...

Guitarist Ricky Wilson told his sister, Cindy, he’d just written “the stupidest guitar line ever.” But sometimes, a joke is simultaneously a stroke of genius (see Blur’s “Song 2”). Time to find out ...