Let’s face it: For most of 2024, for most of recent memory, rock music has been dead. But just as the Day of the Dead is upon us, the Cure has brought the genre back to life. The goth gods — who had ...

You might think that after being silent for 16 years, The Cure would be in a rush to get things going. Think again. It takes over three minutes of “Alone” — the first song on their new album — before ...

Welcome to the 36th Songs of the Week of 2024. This week Andy Von Pip, Caleb Campbell, Marc Abbott, Matt the Raven, Scotty Dransfield, and Stephen Humpries helped me decide what should make the list.

Songs Of A Live World will feature eight tracks recorded during The Cure’s concert at Troxy London last month. The somewhat private concert celebrated the release of the highly-anticipated album Songs ...

“All Cats Are Grey” comes from The Cure’s 1981 album Faith. Like many of The Cure’s songs, this one has roots in literature. Specifically, this song was inspired by Mervyn Peake‘s fantasy novel series ...

The best Cure albums feature some of the most “Leave me alone, Mom!” music of all time, and ebullient hits like “Friday I’m in Love,” the sonic equivalent of the smiling emoji. That's range! Across a ...

As of this writing, Songs Of A Lost World isn’t just the most critically acclaimed Cure album of all time. It’s the most critically acclaimed Cure album by such an insurmountable margin that you’d ...

How perfect does Robert Smith’s voice still sound? Most of his ’80s contemporaries’ pipes are shadows of what they once were, but on The Cure’s Songs of a Lost World, this is the voice you remember ...

Having been teasing the prospect of a new Cure album for some time, the band’s 14th long player is finally with us. The long-awaited follow-up to 2008’s 4:13 Dream, Songs of a Lost World is a thing of ...

The Cure celebrated the arrival of their long-awaited and much-acclaimed new album Songs of a Lost World on Friday with a release-night, livestreamed London concert. The three-hour concert, coming on ...