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“I wanted to make the ultimate record. And then the band could stop”: How The Cure’s Pornography, Disintegration and Bloodflowers albums became goth’s great ‘Dark Trilogy’

The Cure’s Robert Smith looks back on the albums that turned the band into the goth icons they are today

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The Cure drop first single in 16 years

Frontman Robert Smith says the new single, "Alone," is "the track that unlocked the record"

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The Cure Releases First New Song In 16 Years

The Cure delights fans with new song 'Alone' after 16 years, announces upcoming album 'Songs of A Lost World'. Exciting news in the music scene with band r...

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The Cure announce new album and release their first new song in 16 years

English rock band will release ‘Songs of a Lost World’ in November

The Independent UK

“It’s the track that unlocked the record.” The Cure introduce their long-awaited new album Songs Of A Lost World with gorgeous, haunting new single Alone

Listen to Alone, the first single from the first album by The Cure in 16 years

Louder

The Cure: Alone review – majestically wreathed in misery and despair

Birds fall from the sky, broken voices call us home and youthful dreams are dashed against the transience of life in the band’s first new song in 16 years

The Guardian - UK

The Cure announce first new music in 16 years

The Just Like Heaven hit-makers teased a short clip of new single titled Alone on social media with an album to follow

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“This is the end of every song that we sing”: The Cure are back with their first new music in 16 years

New single Alone gets its first play this Thursday, with a teased, unconfirmed new album apparently out on November 1st

MusicRadar

The Cure announce first new song in 16 years, Alone

Symphonic ballad will be released on Thursday, ahead of new album Songs of a Lost World which awaits an official announcement

The Guardian - UK

The Cure fans receive cryptic messages amid new album speculation

Frontman Robert Smith previously announced that the band had finished recording their new album in 2019

The Independent UK

The Cure tease the release of Songs of a Lost World, their first album in 16 years, with a poster outside the English bar where they played their very first gig

It appears that The Cure's long-awaited Songs of a Lost World album will finally emerge on November 1

Louder

Oasis ticket prices skyrocket: Why are fans outraged by dynamic pricing?

Ticketmaster comes under fire as reunion tour tickets are sold out amid spike in prices, angering fans.

Al Jazeera

The Cure keyboardist Roger O’Donnell reveals ‘aggressive’ blood cancer diagnosis

Musician said he ‘ignored the symptoms’ for several months before he underwent 11 months of treatment

The Independent UK

Experience: I died at a Cure concert

They shocked me twice to bring me around. I’d been clinically dead for 15 minutes

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The Guardian - UK

The Cure to release two new songs on eco-vinyl

And Nothing Is Forever and I Can Never Say Goodbye will be available on 1 October, using the ‘most recyclable’ plastic available, part of a Naked Record Club project to benefit the EarthPercent charity

The National (Scotland)

Reform UK candidate in Scotland 'called for Nicola Sturgeon to be shot'

A REFORM UK candidate standing in Scotland advocated for Nicola Sturgeon to be shot, it has been revealed.

MusicRadar

"I think the whole thing was turned around in two days": The two-man Cure lineup that recorded one of the greatest film soundtrack songs of all time for The Crow

30 years on, it remains an undeniably potent piece of Cure history

Louder

“We were playing to people who didn't care if we fell over and died.” The Cure might be recognised now as one of the world's most iconic and influential bands, but that wasn't always the case

The path to rock superstardom can be long and winding

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Evening Standard

Charles Jeffrey on his riotous decade in fashion: 'I always prefer being the weirdo in the room'

The fashion designer Charles Jeffrey speaks to Victoria Moss about his ten years in fashion and new exhibition at Somerset House

Louder

"I listened to Pornography and Disintegration one weekend. I got very drunk": How Robert Smith completed The Cure's Dark Trilogy

For many, The Cure of the 1980s was that of smudged lipstick and funny pop songs, but albums like Pornography and Disintegration showed the reality was much darker

Louder

“I remember seeing my first rock legend snorting cocaine in the bathroom, like, ‘Oh, I’ve heard about this’”: Foo Fighters’ Nate Mendel on the night they played at David Bowie’s epic 50th birthday bash

The Foos joined Robert Smith, Kim Gordon, Lou Reed and more for a triumphant night at Madison Square Garden

Louder

"He was drunk out of his mind and he asked me to make out with him": Billy Corgan on how he became a fan of The Cure... and the first time he met Robert Smith

The Smashing Pumpkins frontman and Cure leader went on to become fast friends

Louder

“Some of the biggest and most powerful companies are, without permission, using our work to train AI models...This assault on human creativity must be stopped”: Pearl Jam, The Cure, R.E.M. attack “predatory” use of AI in music

“Unchecked, AI will set in motion a race to the bottom that will degrade the value of our work”, say the Artist Rights Alliance

Louder

Ten times Billy Corgan collaborated with his heroes

The Smashing Pumpkins leader has racked up some impressive guest spots over the years

The Guardian - US

What is a breast cancer risk assessment score? Should I get one?

Olivia Munn revealed this week that she’d been diagnosed with breast cancer. She attributed the early detection to an assessment tool

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