DEVO announces Cosmic De-Evolution Tour with The B-52s. Get tickets

New wave is alive and well.DEVO and The B-52s announced they’re teaming up for their co-headlining ‘Cosmic De-Evolution Tour’ with special guest Lene Lovich from September through November.While on the road, the offbeat rock pioneers — who both performed at “SNL50” this past February — are scheduled to make a pair of New York and New Jersey stops.Up first, they’ll swoop into Holmdel, NJ’s PNC Bank Arts Center on Saturday, Oct.4.

Then, on Sunday, Oct.5, the ’80s-tastic twosome hit Long Island’s Jones Beach Theater.“COORDINATES CONFIRMED.

These are the dates.These are the cities,” The B-52s shared via Instagram.

“Come weird.Come loud.

Just don’t miss it!”Upon further investigation, eagle-eyed diehards may notice the text “one last orbit (maybe?)” on the bottom of the tour announcement poster.While we can’t confirm what exactly is being implied there, DEVO has been in the middle of their ’50 Years of De-Evolution…Continued’ farewell tour for three years and The B-52s claimed they were calling it quits in November 2022 but have since headlined at festivals, performed in their hometown Athens, GA, conducted multiple Las Vegas residencies and put on a few one-off shows all over North America.Makes sense that two of the cheekiest bands of all time would goof on saying goodbye.“I’m looking forward to 2073,” DEVO frontman Mark Mothersbaugh, who has scored everything from the “Rugrats” theme song to Wes Anderson films, joked in an interview with The Guardian back in 2023.“We’ll play 100th anniversary Devo shows and then maybe retire.”“In 2022, I swore I’d never get on a tour bus again” B-52s singer Fred Schneider said in a press release fo the fall tour.

“…but we were careful to say to our fans that we would still perform in special situations that don’t require all of the awful tour travel.Our Vegas residency is going great, and when we were offered the chance to do a small run of shows with Dev...