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The Cure dropped a new EP Friday featuring new versions of their latest single, “A Fragile Thing.” Along with a remix, the EP features a live recording of the song from their gig at the London club the Troxy earlier this month, which was livestreamed on YouTube. “Thank you again …

This past Friday marked the long-awaited release of The Cure‘s Songs of a Lost World after a 16-year interval, and the verdict is in — it was worth the wait. Rolling Stone’s Rob Sheffield dubbed it “the Cure’s best since Disintegration,” calling it a “vividly propulsive space-rock goth elegy, eight …

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 the heels of a BBC gig two nights before, featured Robert Smith and company performing the new LP in order …

Robert Smith opened up about the notorious stance he took against predatory ticketing practices for the Cure‘s North America Tour last year, recalling his goals to keep tickets cheap as well as his viral Twitter threads calling out the ticketing business from Ticketmaster to scalpers to other artists. “It was …

The words “long awaited” don’t begin to do justice to the new Cure album. Songs of a Lost World is an album that’s been promised, rumored, dangled, teased, longed for, despaired of, imagined. Cure fans have spent 16 years lighting candles and praying for this one, as Robert Smith has …

When it comes to the modern model of live music ticketing services, Robert Smith is disinterested in framing recent practices as being complicated. Last year, when the Cure announced their first U.S. tour in seven years, the bandopted out ofTicketmaster‘sdynamic pricing modeland used non-transferable tickets toavoid scalpingby both the seller …

The Cure have shared another new song, “A Fragile Thing,” from their upcoming album, Songs of a Lost World, out Nov. 1. “A Fragile Thing” is a romantically fraught plea anchored by a brooding bass line and filled with yearning guitar riffs and synth lines. “‘And there’s nothing you can …

The Cure have released a new single, “Alone,” the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-inducted band’s first new song since 2008. “It’s the track that unlocked the record,” frontman Robert Smith shared of the seven-minute epic in a statement. “As soon as we had that piece of music recorded I …

The Cure‘s comeback is imminent. On Sept. 26, the band will release the new song “Alone,” marking their first original single release since 2008. The record will appear on their upcoming album Songs of a Lost World. The arrival of “Alone” will be accompanied by additional details about the album, …

The Cure appear to be on the precipice of finally announcing their long-awaited new album, as the band has wiped their website and teased a release date for their first LP in 16 years. In August, Robert Smith and company announced a 12″ charity single featuring live versions of two …