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    From lovable weirdos to queer icons, the B-52's dance this mess around one last time

    LOS ANGELES — Forty-three years after the release of their weird, wonderful debut album, the B-52's are calling it a wrap. Well, sort of. This weekend the pioneering new wave band from Athens, Georgia, will bring what's billed as its farewell tour to Southern California for concerts Friday at Inglewood's YouTube Theater and Saturday at the Honda Center in Anaheim. The show is meant to recap ...
    by Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times Nov 03, 2022 9 minutes
    From left, Cindy Wilson, Fred Schneider, and Kate Pierson of the B-52's perform during KAABOO Texas Music Festival at the AT&T Stadium on May 12, 2019, in Arlington, Texas.

    LOS ANGELES — Forty-three years after the release of their weird, wonderful debut album, the B-52's are calling it a wrap.

    Well, sort of.

    This weekend the pioneering new wave band from Athens, Georgia, will bring what's billed as its farewell tour to Southern California for concerts Friday at Inglewood's YouTube Theater and Saturday at the Honda Center in Anaheim. The show is meant to recap one of the most peculiar careers in pop history: a decades-long journey from underground cult-fave status as part of the arty Athens scene that also produced R.E.M. through Top 40 ubiquity with late-'80s hits like "Love Shack" and "Roam" to the members' current position as elder statespeople of queer culture and alternative rock.

    "But this isn't the last you've heard from the B-52's," promises singer Kate Pierson, 74, who's on the road with fellow vocalists Fred Schneider, 71, and Cindy Wilson, 65. (Ricky Wilson, the band's founding guitarist, died in 1985 of complications from AIDS; Keith Strickland, who played drums before replacing Ricky Wilson on guitar, stopped touring in 2012.) According to Pierson, the group still plans to play gigs now and then, and its music — an instantly identifiable blend of surf guitar lines, mutant funk beats, girl-group harmonies and Schneider's wacky declamations — will soon be the subject of a documentary executive produced by comedian Fred Armisen. There's also a book on the horizon and "like a Broadway thing, maybe," Pierson said — indications

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