The Cure’s longtime keyboardist Roger O’Donnell revealed Saturday that he has spent the past year fighting “a very rare and aggressive form of lymphoma,” but added he is now doing “fine and the prognosis is amazing.” The musician announced his health scare on social media to coincide with September’s Blood …
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It’s not the long-awaited new album by the Cure, but Robert Smith and company will release live versions of two songs that they’ve road-tested during recent tours on an upcoming eco-friendly vinyl single. Novembre: Live in France 2022, due out October 1, features live recordings of “And Nothing Is Forever” …
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“When someone’s dead, they can’t come back, can they?” It’s a pretty straightforward line of dialogue. But when it was spoken near the end of The Crow, audiences silently shivered. All of us who saw the anticipated comic-book action movie when it opened on the weekend of May 13th, 1994, …
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Billy Joel sent shockwaves through his fan community earlier this month by announcing plans to release a new single, “Turn the Lights Back On,” on Feb. 1. He hasn’t put out new material of any sort since 2007’s “Christmas in Fallujah,” and River of Dreams was his last album of …
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There’s something so beautifully weird about the triumphant return of the Cure. It’s a crazy moment for fans — of all the fandoms in pop history, this is one of the most bizarrely long-lived, open-ended, multigenerational, cheerfully unkillable. Robert Smith and his crew of English gloom gods are hitting the …
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Foo Fighters, the Cure, Turnstile, and more are headed to Chicago for Riot Fest 2023, taking place Sept. 15 through 17 at Douglass Park. Foo Fighters will headline night one, with Baltimore hardcore heroes Turnstile also getting top-billing. On night two, Ben Gibbard will pull double duty as the Postal …
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You want to see Foo Fighters, The Cure, Turnstile, and Death Cab — we want to see Foo Fighters, The Cure, Turnstile, and Death Cab. Luckily, they’re all among the headliners at the 2023 Riot Fest in Chicago this year — and tickets are now on sale on the festival …
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The Cure honored their most diehard fans last night at the New Orleans kickoff of their North American tour with the first performances of Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me’s “A Thousand Hours” and The Head on the Door’s “Six Different Ways” since 1987. Frontman Robert Smith sang the vocal …
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Whether or not Robert Smith intended it, the Cure’s ticketing on-sale this week became a worthy case study for anyone to learn about all the efforts, and the complications, that come with making the ticketing marketplace a more equitable experience for fans. Readying its first U.S. tour in seven years, …
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Ticketmaster will be supplying ticket-buyers for the Cure’s recently announced U.S. tour with partial refunds, following a controversy on Wednesday over fees that the group’s frontman Robert Smith said had him “sickened.” The refund, which Smith announced Thursday on Twitter, comes a day after the Cure‘s tickets first went on …
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