The last time the B-52’s released an album, it was 16 years ago. Good Stuff was a brave but futile attempt at soldiering on without founding member Cindy Wilson. The new Funplex, in essence, sounds like the proper follow-up to the 1989 blockbuster, Cosmic Thing. Two days after celebrating her 60th birthday, Kate Pierson joined soul sister Wilson, resident space-cadet Fred Schneider, and guitarist Keith Strickland for a sold-out party at House of Blues that was positively cosmic …
This article appears in Apr 30 – May 6, 2008.