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“No stone goes unturned”: The Cure celebrate their new album, a goth classic and everything else that makes them great at spotless London show

At the intimate Troxy venue, The Cure celebrate the newly released Songs Of A Lost World and so much more, offering three hours of surprises, singalongs and pure emotion

Roland Cubes, plastic pedalboards and nothing but Boss: Robert Smith’s 2024 guitar rig flies in the face of modern guitar culture – and sounds all the more majestic for it

Roland Cubes, plastic pedalboards and nothing but Boss: Robert Smith’s 2024 guitar rig flies in the face of modern guitar culture – and sounds all the more majestic for it

As The Cure return to the stage with their first album in 16 years, their leader is employing a setup that defiantly rejects contemporary tonal wisdom

The Cure’s nine essential songs, from ‘Push’ to ‘Disintegration’

The Cure’s nine essential songs, from ‘Push’ to ‘Disintegration’

THE COUNTDOWN: As the rock pioneers release their first album in 16 years, Mark Beaumont forgoes all singles and picks the best songs spanning a four-decade career

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The Cure launch new album with intimate shows

The Cure launched their long-awaited new album with two intimate concerts for the BBC on Wednesday (30.10.24).

The Cure’s first album in 16 years is gothic, gorgeous proof that no one does misery better

5/5 All these years later, rock’s foremost goth can still tap into teenage intensity on ‘Songs of a Lost World’

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A forest of questions: take our quiz on the Cure!

Ahead of the band’s first album in 16 years coming out on Friday, superfans can test their mettle with this trivia spanning their entire career

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"Backcombed head and sloped shoulders above the dreck of indie/goth rock revivalists": Robert Smith charts his own grief and anxiety on The Cure's sombre Songs Of A Lost World

"Backcombed head and sloped shoulders above the dreck of indie/goth rock revivalists": Robert Smith charts his own grief and anxiety on The Cure's sombre Songs Of A Lost World

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Sick of overpriced gig tickets? Here’s the Cure

Sick of overpriced gig tickets? Here’s the Cure

Robert Smith, defiant leader of the post-punk stalwarts, has shown that secondary markets can be bypassed, enabling ordinary people to benefit from culture

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"I’d gone through my own personal tornado so it was a track that spoke to me": Yellowjackets star Juliette Lewis on her favourite Cure track

"I’d gone through my own personal tornado so it was a track that spoke to me": Yellowjackets star Juliette Lewis on her favourite Cure track

The Cape Fear star and singer was drawn to a Robert Smith classic from 1989 in the wake of her own troubles

The Cure: Songs of a Lost World review – as promised, ‘very, very doom and gloom’

The Cure: Songs of a Lost World review – as promised, ‘very, very doom and gloom’

The band’s first album in 16 years finds Robert Smith and co on reliably melancholy form – with the exception of one out-and-out pop banger

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Just like heaven: the Cure’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!

Just like heaven: the Cure’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!

Ahead of the release of Songs of a Lost World – their first album in 16 years – we rate the best of a band who combine light and dark like no other

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The Cure: Songs of a Lost World review – dark, personal and their best since Disintegration

The Cure: Songs of a Lost World review – dark, personal and their best since Disintegration

The band are at an artistic peak on their first album in 16 years: movingly melancholic, with a punchy sound to match the lyrics’ emotional impact

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“Every artist could say that - ‘I don’t want that’ - and it would disappear. But you know artists hide behind management”: Robert Smith on his frustrations with Ticketmaster and dynamic pricing

“Every artist could say that - ‘I don’t want that’ - and it would disappear. But you know artists hide behind management”: Robert Smith on his frustrations with Ticketmaster and dynamic pricing

He describes dynamic pricing as a “scam”

Vista’s Robert Smith says enterprise software firms will be among the last to profit from AI—but that the gains will be huge

Vista’s Robert Smith says enterprise software firms will be among the last to profit from AI—but that the gains will be huge

About 80% of Vista’s portfolio companies have deployed or developed a gen AI tool

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“Again, a bit of doom and gloom.” Robert Smith selects one song from every Cure album which reflects the mood of their new record Songs of a Lost World, and reveals which Cure album is his least favourite

The Cure's Robert Smith picks a 13-track playlist to get fans in the mood for his band's new album, Songs of a Lost World

“Each instrument comes with a custom hardshell case, a signed COA from Robert Smith and directly supports life-saving cancer research”: Schecter and the Cure’s Robert Smith join forces for charity with the release of the Shellflower UltraCure

This limited edition run comprises an UltraCure electric guitar and its 30" scale six-string bass sibling, and $500 from the sale of each instrument goes to the World Cancer Research Fund

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Robert Smith names year he says is ‘it’ for The Cure

Musician admitted he almost called time on the band in 2018, following their rapturously received headline performance at Hyde Park

“The world is falling apart. It’s insane. It’s greed, inequality, monetisation.” Robert Smith on the gloomy, reflective themes at the dark heart of The Cure's new album Songs of a Lost World

It may not entirely surprise you to learn that The Cure's first album in 16 years is not an upbeat party record

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The Cure’s Robert Smith blasts artists who blame ticketing sites for inflated prices weeks after Oasis fiasco

Oasis recently came under fire after fans reported sky-high ticket prices due to Ticketmaster’s ‘dynamic pricing’ system

The Cure's Robert Smith speaks out on dynamic ticket pricing controversy: 'It's a scam...'

Robert Smith thinks dynamic ticket pricing is just a way to "scam" fans as he claims that modern performances have just become all about "branding and sponsorship" above all else.

The Cure release plaintive new single A Fragile Thing, announce tracklist for Songs Of A Lost World album

Songs Of A Lost World will be the first album from The Cure since 2008's 4:13 Dream

“It’s not often we perform such intimate shows, so we’re really looking forward to this.” The Cure are recording an exclusive gig in London this month, and you could be there to see it

Find out how to get tickets to see The Cure live at special Radio 2 In Concert show

“I wanted to make the ultimate record. And then the band could stop”: How The Cure’s Pornography, Disintegration and Bloodflowers albums became goth’s great ‘Dark Trilogy’

The Cure’s Robert Smith looks back on the albums that turned the band into the goth icons they are today

The Cure drop first single in 16 years

Frontman Robert Smith says the new single, "Alone," is "the track that unlocked the record"

The Cure Releases First New Song In 16 Years

The Cure delights fans with new song 'Alone' after 16 years, announces upcoming album 'Songs of A Lost World'. Exciting news in the music scene with band r...

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