The Cure
Robert Smith of The Cure has shared his contribution to Deftones’ Black Stallion, a remix album celebrating White Pony’s 20th anniversary. Smith took on Deftones’ ‘Teenager’. He strips the track back to its basic bones and creates this really ethereal song. PB = PB || {}; PB.gptStandAlone = PB.gptStandAlone || {}; PB.gptAutoRefresh = PB.gptAutoRefresh || […]
Gorillaz have shared the latest track from their Song Machine project, ‘Strange Timez’, featuring The Cure frontman Robert Smith. It’s the sixth “episode” the virtual band have released in the collaborative series this year, following team-ups with ScHoolboy Q, Octavian, Tony Allen and Skepta, Peter Hook, Fatoumata Diawara, slowthai and Slaves. The video for ‘Strange Timez’ […]
Many of us can link a certain album to pivotal moments in our lives. Whether it’s the first record you bought with your own money, the chord you first learnt to play on guitar, the song that soundtracked your first kiss, the album that got you those awkward and painful pubescent years or the one […]
A year ago, Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor declared that he “couldn’t give less of a shit” about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame after NIN were snubbed from the nominations. This time around, however, the legendary industrial rock act have been nominated. And, in a new interview with Forbes, Reznor spoke about how his […]
Your goth Christmases are here, mates. The Cure‘s Robert Smith has shared the news that the band have three new albums in the works and that – even more excitingly – the first could be here before the year is out. “Actually I have prepared three albums, two of them more advanced. The first will […]
In a new interview with Los Angeles Times, The Cure frontman Robert Smith has spoken about the band’s forthcoming album, the first since 2008’s 4:13 Dream. When asked if there was a working title for the follow-up, Smith revealed the album is tentatively titled Live from the Moon, going on to explain his fascination with the […]
UK music retailers often see a spike in guitar sales during Glastonbury each year, and 2019 was apparently no different. As The National reports, retailer GUITARGUITAR had an increase of 16% in electric guitar sales last weekend, during this year’s festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset. Store owners said the “Glastonbury effect” can see the […]
This week marked the 30th anniversary of The Cure’s album Disintegration. To celebrate, The Cure performed over five nights at the Sydney Opera House for Vivid LIVE. Last night was their final performance in the Opera House. They treated fans to a nostalgic performance with Disintegration in full as well as some never-played-live tracks and […]
Sydney copped a world first on Friday night, with The Cure opening their Vivid LIVE 2019 residency at the Sydney Opera House with their first ever Disintegration 30th anniversary show. As expected, the band’s set came packing all the classics, plus some deep cuts and a bunch of live debuts. Robert Smith et. al. opened the night […]
