ON A COOL DESERT EVENING in late May, a crowd of men in baseball caps and women in cold-shoulder shirts mills around a makeshift stage by the pool at Las Vegas’ MGM Grand. The guests, beers in hand, have come to the hotel for a software conference, but they’re at this private party to see The B-52s — Fred Schneider, 66; Cindy Wilson, 61; and Kate Pierson, 70, together with their four-piece band.
It’s at first jarring to see The B-52s here, but a pool party at a Vegas casino is, in a way, the perfect place for the “tacky little dance band from Athens, Ga.,” as The B-52s have always called themselves. In May — a decade after their last studio album, Funplex, reached No. 11 on the…
