Everyone knows that when it comes to real estate, it's all about location, location, location.

When it comes to B-52s albums, it's all about fun, fun, fun. That's why it's not such a dramatic move from "Love Shack," wherever that's located, to "Funplex," the unstoppable party band's first album in 16 years.

The sound is unmistakable B-52s: the rhythmic guitars, simple keyboard riffs, girl-group harmonies, bouncy beats. The only real difference is a newfound electronica sheen to the dance-happy sound.

With the well-received new album and a trip to Target Center on Monday as part of Cyndi Lauper's gay-friendly True Colors Tour, B-52s singer Kate Pierson, 60, checked in from Woodstock, N.Y., where she opened a motel in 2004 at which you can stay in quirkily themed Airstream trailers.

Q How does it feel to be on tour again with a new album?

A Wonderful. It's just so amazing to perform the new songs. We started incorporating them into the set before the record was released. And they get such a good reaction. People posted the shows on YouTube, and people are singing along with the new songs. So it's really gratifying.

Q Why did it take 16 years for you to do a new album?

A I was not even aware of that until we started doing interviews. We did tour a lot. For [1989's] "Cosmic Thing," we toured for like a year and three-quarters. And then Cindy [Wilson] left the band. Then we did 'Good Stuff' [in '92] and we toured. I think we were getting to a burnout; we needed to take some time off. Then all of us started doing solo projects. Cindy had two kids. We did manage to keep playing and doing summer tours with the Go-Gos, the Pretenders and Blondie.

I guess we didn't have incredible incentive to do a new record, although we did try several times to jam [to write songs] and the jamming process we do just wasn't happening.