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Update: The B-52s

Andy Schwartz, New York Rocker, April 1979

ARE THE B-52s now America's most popular un­signed "new wave" band? Not on the West Coast perhaps, where the group has yet to tour and where the Screamers, Readymades, et al reign supreme. But in New York, the group's following has grown beyond the legal capacities of most area clubs.

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