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Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture and yet we also knowIn the summer of 1978, the B 52's conquered the New York underground. A year later, the band's self titled debut album burst onto the Billboard charts, capturing the imagination of fans and music critics worldwide. The fact that the group had formed in the sleepy southern college town of Athens, Georgia, only increased the fascination. Soon, more Athens bands followed the B 52's into the vanguard of the new American music that would come to be known