B-52s, Shake Shack introduce Love Shack Shake

Credit: Matt Cowan

Credit: Matt Cowan

The B-52s brought you a Rock Lobster. Now they are introducing Love Shack Shakes.

The quirky new wave band out of Athens, Georgia, has teamed up with Shake Shack to create a strawberry blonde milkshake topped with whipped cream and glitter sprinkles, according to their Facebook and Twitter accounts.

The shakes will be available from Feb. 9-18, and the band is urging the public to roam -- if they want to -- to selected Shake Shacks in Atlanta, New York City and Los Angeles to buy them.

For every Love Shack Shake sold, Shake Shack will donate $2 to Canine Companions for Independence, a nonprofit organization that provides service dogs for free to people with disabilities.

“Love Shack,” from the band’s “Cosmic Thing” album, was the group’s first top-40 hit and rose to No. 3 on the Billboard charts in November 1989. The group was formed in 1976.

Three of the original band members -- Cindy Wilson, Kate Pierson and Fred Schneider -- continue to tour.

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