B-52’s Fred Schneider is Still Making Music Weird

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Last Updated on June 24, 2024

After 30 years and 20 million albums The B-52s are still flying high. The bombastic Fred Schneider helped take them there with mega-hits like “Love Shack.”

Today, Fred’s creative juices are still churning in his latest, way over-the-top project, The Superions.

Find out why Fred is having more fun than ever, and he reveals what it was like in the early days of the Athens, Georgia, music scene — a place the produced groups like R.E.M., the Indigo Girls and Widespread Panic.

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