The B-52'S News

East Germans danced atop the Berlin Wall with their West German neighbors as the longstanding dividing line came crashing down in a televised celebration 20 years ago today.

Will you ever bring your Las Vegas stage show to Broadway? "You know what, never say never.

Friday night, in the razzling-dazzling Waldorf-Astoria, Bette Midler entertained a packed ballroom of ghostly and goofy guests, raising over a million dollars, and counting, for the New York Restoration Project.

Few people knew during the Vietnam War that the CIA was simultaneously financing and backing a puppet government in nearby Laos.

Zac Brown Band is looking to restore the glory of its onetime musical stomping grounds by hosting a benefit concert on Oct.

There is a story about John Lennon hearing the B-52s' 1978 song Rock Lobster at a disco in the Bahamas.

Jello Biafra postures and poses at the Clubhouse Music Venue in Tempe. See more shots in our slideshow of the concert.

"Wheel of Fortune" host Pat Sajak is 63. Actress Shelley Morrison is 73. Actor Bob Hoskins is 67.

In honor of Sol Caf reopening, The Hatchet had owner Simone Freeman put together a list of her favorite songs to play while she works.

Never Mind the Pity: How Killian Mansfield's Dying Dream Turned into the Making of a Miraculous Album.

Twenty-five years ago - Oct. 16, 1984 - an Air Force B-52 bomber crashed and exploded on Hunts Mesa, sending a fireball thousands of feet into the air and turning night into day across Monument Valley.

Don't be surprised if you see some extra military jet traffic flying overhead, including the old B-52's. The eastern air defense sector, headquartered in Rome, is taking part in a training exercise involving F-15's and B-52's. Military fighters throughout the northeast are taking part, and people may hear aircraft noise and see aircraft flying at ...

You could roam, as the B-52s put it during their early afternoon set Sunday on the AMD Stage.

1968 - The Jimi Hendrix Experience got its start in London. 1968 - John Sebastian departed the Lovin' Spoonful to pursue a solo career.

If you grew up in North Texas in the late '70s and '80s, you might remember Rowlett resident George Gimarc, who created the format for KDGE "The Edge." You may also remember the type of impact radio had on the music industry before the Internet and viral marketing.

So, what happens to freshly laid grass in a public park after a day full of rain and thousands of people walking back and forth across it at the same time? Well, as anyone who was present for Day Three of Austin City Limits Festival 2009 could tell you, it turns into a big muddy, stinking, sloppy mess, one with the power to swallow shoes and small ...

The first of many acts to cement the college town of Athens, GA, as a hotbed of alternative music, the B-52's took their name from the Southern slang for the mile-high bouffant wigs sported by singers Kate Pierson and Cindy Wilson, a look emblematic of the band's campy, thrift-store aesthetic.

In case you've never listened to a lot of excellent bands in the most ridiculously sloppy and swamp-like conditions imaginable, the experience at this year's Austin City Limits Festival provides a good hint as to what you've missed.

STANDING ON A STEPLADDER IN THE GLOOM of the B-52's cavernous bomb bay, I squeezed between the lower pair of torpedo-shaped nukes - B28FI thermonuclear weapons - and aimed an inspection mirror and flashlight at the circular viewports on each: "safe" indicators visible, yield settings correct.

Last weekend, music was truly in the air as Marin County hosted three major musical events.