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Ready the Aqua Net and throw some extra starch on your skinny ties: the B-52's are taking you out past the "Love Shack" all the way to the Funplex.

Funplex is the first studio LP from the Athens, GA campy post-punk legends since 1992's Good Stuff, which, as you've already subtracted, is an awfully long time away from the studio. The disc, produced by Happy Mondays/New Order knobsmith Steve Osborne, is bubbling over with what guitarist Keith Strickland calls (in the press release) "loud, sexy rock and roll for your pleasure zones, with the beat pumped up to hot pink." Colorful!

Funplex emerges February 26 on Astralwerks, and the band will show it off on a handful of live appearances over the next few months-- including a Halloween gala in NYC tonight with the Rapture.

Funplex:

01 Pump
02 Hot Corner
03 Ultraviolet
04 Juliet of the Spirits
05 Funplex
06 Eyes Wide Open
07 Love in the Year 3000
08 Deviant Ingredient
09 Too Much to Think About
10 Dancing Now
11 Keep This Party Going

B-52's:

10-31 New York, NY - Roseland Ballroom *
11-15 Santa Ynez, CA - Chumash Casino Resort
11-16 West Hollywood, CA - The Roxy
11-17 Salt Lake City, UT - The Depot
02-15 Jacksonville, FL - The Florida Theatre

* with the Rapture