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We all chuckled at The Cure frontman's typically British reaction to excitable red carpet interviewer

With Something Good, the arts and culture newsletter from The Conversation, we aim to cut through the noise and recommend the very best in new releases every fortnight. And what a soundtrack this year’s newsletters have had. From Charli XCX’s global domination with Brat to Kendrick Lamar’s rap game-changing GNX,…

Smith only carried on fronting the band because he’d fallen out with everyone who filled the role

Here are the year’s most outstanding tracks – from Fontaines DC to Beyoncé via Kendrick Lamar – as voted for by 26 Guardian music writers

The Cure's royalties from sales of Songs Of A Live World Troxy London MMXXlV will be donated to War Child

“Women presume we can have children. There is a biological and social expectation. Nothing can make that absence worse. But we have the possibility of making it better.” New to Netflix, Joy follows the British scientists who invented in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) – Bob Edwards (James Norton), Jean Purdy (Thomasin McKenzie)…

At Shrewsbury train station, there is a poster advertising The Cure’s new album, Songs of a Lost World. The confident, monochrome minimalism of the art is at odds with the rambling Victorian brickwork, yet there is a kind of sympathy there also.

Plus that new Oasis album… it doesn’t exist. It was a joke all along!

Oasis leader Noel Gallagher might be a long-time fan of The Cure, but, not for the first time, his little brother Liam doesn't share his opinion