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"I listened to Pornography and Disintegration one weekend. I got very drunk": How Robert Smith completed The Cure's Dark Trilogy

For many, The Cure of the 1980s was that of smudged lipstick and funny pop songs, but albums like Pornography and Disintegration showed the reality was much darker

Louder

"We referenced The Cure a lot while making it": Stone Gossard reveals Pearl Jam's shared inspiration, and why he feels more heard as a guitarist on new album, Dark Matter

"You could be the greatest guitar player in the world but a ten-year-old could learn to play that in an hour", he says of the "magic" melodic moments he loves to discover in songwriting

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"He was drunk out of his mind and he asked me to make out with him": Billy Corgan on how he became a fan of The Cure... and the first time he met Robert Smith

The Smashing Pumpkins frontman and Cure leader went on to become fast friends

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The Cure's Live Album 'Paris' Reaches New High On Charts

The Cure's live album 'Paris' sees a resurgence on the charts after 30 years, showcasing their enduring influence.

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“Some of the biggest and most powerful companies are, without permission, using our work to train AI models...This assault on human creativity must be stopped”: Pearl Jam, The Cure, R.E.M. attack “predatory” use of AI in music

“Unchecked, AI will set in motion a race to the bottom that will degrade the value of our work”, say the Artist Rights Alliance

Louder

NewDad live at KOKO review: the soft-focus indie rockers had the crowd howling in delight

The buzzy Galway four-piece brought shadow puppet spookiness and a cover of The Cure to their biggest London show

Evening Standard

'Mostly for those in their 40s and 50s': I'm 28 but I still think this stage race has a mad playlist that you need to listen to

With everything from Arcade Fire to Tina Turner, it's got something for everyone - almost. Plus, a lot of Portuguese music

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"Like Lee Hazelwood sleepwalking through a guest spot with The Cure circa Faith": The Telescopes' Growing Eyes Becoming String

Growing Eyes Becoming String is the 16th album from psychedelic shoegaze veterans The Telescopes

Louder

“They sort of jiggled around for a while until someone found something and took hold of it and the rest went, ‘Great!’” The Cure co-founder Lol Tolhurst’s love for Can

Drummer appreciated krautrock heroes from his early days, along with King Crimson, ELP and others

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"This is something I wouldn’t have believed if you’d told me 20 years ago": Chino Moreno couldn't be more thrilled that The Cure's Robert Smith appears on the new Crosses album

The mutual love in between Deftones and The Cure is a pure and wonderful thing

Metal Hammer

Atlas Franklin Alexander maps out his home in a strange world

"It's just creating that weird David Lynch-esque universe."

Newcastle Herald

"With music, you seem to take it all in and it becomes immersive. Music has a power all its own": The Cure's Reeves Gabrels picks the 10 records that changed his life

Former David Bowie and current Cure guitarist Reeves Gabrels picks ten singles that left a lasting impact

Louder

In ‘Goth: A History,’ The Cure co-founder Lol Tolhurst traces the often-misunderstood subculture

In a new book titled “Goth: A History,” The Cure co-founder Lol Tolhurst traces a misunderstood subculture

The Independent UK

Summer festival season peaks with The Cure closing Riot Fest, finale just like heaven

The marathon performance deserves the title of the best headlining set of Chicago’s summer festival season.

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Guitar World

The Cure’s Simon Gallup has been gigging with 2 gnarly new-look bass guitars – and now Schecter has released them as his latest signature models

A cosmetically updated Ultra Spitfire and a new semi-hollow stunner dubbed the Corsair have been unveiled

Salon

I saw The Cure with my parents

An ongoing struggle with learning to let others love the music I've grown up on

MusicRadar

Olivia Rodrigo sits at the piano to deliver a stripped-back version of Vampire, and says that her dad is introducing her to Depeche Mode and The Cure

“He’s introducing me to all the bands he went to see when he was my age,” she explains

Fortune

In a summer of Ticketmaster scandals, 'revenge spending' and inflation, Robert Smith of The Cure is the hero we need

The goth icon speaks for all of us: "I AM AS SICKENED AS YOU ALL ARE."

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Watch The Cure's Robert Smith serenade his wife at LA show

The Cure frontman Robert Smith was in a romantic mood in Los Angeles last month, so sang Plainsong to his wife at the side of the stage

Chicago Sun-Times

Foo Fighters, The Cure among Riot Fest 2023 lineup at Douglass Park festival

Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Tuesday for the festival running Sept. 15–17 in Chicago.

ABC News

British band The Cure has many loyal female fans. What is it about this band that inspires such devotion?

The British post-punk band has many dedicated older female fans, but their fandom is not about fancying lead singer Robert Smith. It's much more interesting.

The Independent UK

The Cure frontman Robert Smith shares anti-monarchy cartoon: ‘Let them eat coronation quiche’

Singer is an outspoken critic of the British royal family

The Independent UK

‘Let them eat coronation quiche’: The Cure frontman Robert Smith shares anti-monarchy cartoon

Singer is an outspoken critic of the British royal family

MusicRadar

"Sales don't mean anything. Seventeen Seconds sold less than 50,000. We had success later – it doesn’t mean those records are better than Seventeen Seconds”: The Cure’s Robert Smith on how to make it on your own terms

From the Archives: Robert Smith looks back on The Cure’s beginnings, their inevitable ending, and what he's learned along the way

The Independent UK

Deadpan Robert Smith interview resurfaces as The Cure singer celebrates 64th birthday

‘One of my absolute favourite clips of all time,’ one fan wrote

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