Coachella is already the most fashionable of the summer festivals by virtue of its proximity to Los Angeles, so this year the NYT ran with the glam, taking a bagful of high fashion garments and draping them on a bunch... CONTINUE READING INDIE ROCKERS PLAY DRESS-UP FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES»
Posted on July 17, 2009 (23 comments)
Tags: Ariel Pink | Beirut | Brandon Flowers | Coachella | Conor Oberst | Friendly Fires | Gang Gang Dance | Girl Talk | Ida Maria | Jenny Lewis | Lykke Li | Morrissey | No Age | Public Enemy | Robert Smith | Rye Rye | The Cure | The Killers | The Kills | Vivian Girls
In a Kanye-locked post, the Godlike Genius clarifies calling Radiohead's In Rainbows strategy, aka "marketing ruse," an "idiot plan," taking a moment to address the "idiot critics": "I AM NOT CONFUSING 'ARTISTIC VALUE' WITH 'COMMERCIAL VALUE' ... MERELY QUESTIONING THE... CONTINUE READING ROBERT SMITH CLARIFIES RADIOHEAD COMMENT»
Posted on March 2, 2009 (18 comments)
Tags: Black Lips | Radiohead | Rain Machine | Robert Smith | The Cure
Lady Sovereign isn't the only person covering the Cure this month: Art Brut and a host of others have contributed their takes on the band to Pictures Of You, a Cure tribute CD free with this week's NME. Art Brut... CONTINUE READING NEW ART BRUT - "CATCH" (CURE COVER)»
Posted on February 27, 2009 (5 comments)
Tags: Art Brut | Black Lips | The Cure | Weezer
Sorry guys, the price of a Cure album will never be Up To You. Robert skewered the In Rainbows strategy in an interview with Music Radar thusly: "You can't allow other people to put a price on what you do,... CONTINUE READING ROBERT SMITH SAYS RADIOHEAD MODEL IS "AN IDIOT PLAN"»
Posted on February 24, 2009 in (123 comments)
Tags: Daft Punk | Radiohead | The Cure
Robert Smith and compatriots have been making the Late Night rounds in support of 4:13 Dream for a couple months, delivering both Kimmel "Freakshow" and Leno "The Perfect Boy" in mid-December. (No love for Letterman.) After a bit of a... CONTINUE READING THE CURE BRING CARSON DALY "SLEEP WHEN I'M DEAD"»
Posted on February 9, 2009 in (15 comments)
Tags: Carson Daly | HEALTH | The Cure
Lady Sovereign got you dancing for the first single from her forthcoming Jigsaw, then payed homage to Michael Jackson in the the track's ghoulish video. Staying in the '80s for the next piece of the puzzle "So Human" she samples... CONTINUE READING LADY SOVEREIGN SAMPLES THE CURE»
Posted on February 4, 2009 in (35 comments)
Tags: Bumbershoot | Lady Sovereign | Natalie Portman's Shaved Head | The Cure
This big announce was supposed to come days ago, and of course people (us) freaked that it didn't. But as Goldenvoice President Paul Tollett put it, "We're not stalling, we're still working on the show. Everything we do is in... CONTINUE READING COACHELLA 2009 LINE-UP»
Posted on January 30, 2009 (70 comments)
Tags: Coachella | Fleet Foxes | Lightning Bolt | My Bloody Valentine | Paul McCartney | Robin Pecknold | The Cure | The Killers
The Cure's very busy year (brought to you by the number 13) essentially wound up last night with a stop by Jimmy Kimmel's music stage (brought to you by the Pontiac logo). The singles and videos and etc. are too... CONTINUE READING THE CURE GIVE KIMMEL A "FREAKSHOW"»
Posted on December 17, 2008 in (1 comments)
Tags: Bonnaroo | Green Man Festival | Jimmy Kimmel | Nine Inch Nails | The Cure
Last night a lipstick-smeared Robert Smith & Co. performed 4:13 Dream's "The Perfect Boy" to a chorus of what sounded like a pack of excited Beatles girls. You can watch it at Hulu.... CONTINUE READING THE CURE BRING LENO "THE PERFECT BOY"»
Posted on December 12, 2008 in (6 comments)
Tags: Green Man Festival | The Cure | Wooden Shjips
We received a number of songs from the Cure's 13th album incrementally, over so many weeks, that 4:13 Dream feels comfortably well-worn even on the first listen. The Single Of The Month Club brought us jangly, sexy "The Only One,"... CONTINUE READING STREAM THE CURE'S 4:13 DREAM»
Posted on October 24, 2008 (7 comments)
Tags: Sharon Jones | The Cure
We cover goth heroes the Cure fairly closely, for better or worst. Tunes we've heard so far from the band's forthcoming 13th studio album 4:13 Dream left us curious if a bit underwhelmed. A free gig in Rome's Piazza San... CONTINUE READING WATCH THE CURE PERFORM NEW ALBUM IN ROME»
Posted on October 14, 2008 in (10 comments)
Tags: The Cure
We've offered up Lewis & Clark's and Bat For Lashes's contributions to Perfect As Cats: A Tribute To The Cure (out 10/28 via Manimal Vinyl). Today we highlight competing Cure comp Just Like Heaven (out next year via American Laundromat),... CONTINUE READING HEY, IT'S ANOTHER CURE TRIBUTE»
Posted on October 13, 2008 (1 comments)
Tags: The Cure
Robert Smith & Co. are still ticking (and typing), but their long, storied career's more than worthy a tribute. We mentioned Perfect As Cats: A Tribute To The Cure last month when offering up Bats For Lashes' cover of Seventeen... CONTINUE READING LEWIS & CLARK COVER THE CURE»
Posted on September 29, 2008 in (0 comments)
Tags: Lewis And Clarke | of Montreal | The Cure
As promised, the Cure's emo-friendly Hypnagogic States EP -- complete with remixes of those LP13 pre-release singles by 30 Seconds To Mars, AFI, 65 Days Of Static, and Fall Out Boy -- is out. The royalties will benefit The International... CONTINUE READING THE CURE'S EMO EP RELEASED, ROBERT SMITH GETS EMO ABOUT IT»
Posted on September 15, 2008 (12 comments)
Tags: Kanye West | Robert Smith | SXSW | The Cure | The Decemberists
Two days ago it was the 13th -- the last 13th implicated in the Cure's rollout for their 13th LP (aside from 10/13, which is when the thing actually comes out). As has been unavoidably, exhaustively discussed here, there's been... CONTINUE READING NEW CURE - "WITHOUT YOU"»
Posted on August 15, 2008 (9 comments)
Tags: Gang Gang Dance | I.U.D. | The Cure
The final installment of the Cure's Single Of The Month Club dropped yesterday, alongside news of a mall punk remix EP executed by the all-stars of commodified angst (Gerard Way, Pete Wentz, Jared Leto, etc.). Obviously that makes for quite... CONTINUE READING NEW CURE VIDEO - "THE PERFECT BOY"»
Posted on August 13, 2008 in (6 comments)
Tags: Final Fantasy | Free Moral Agents | The Cure
If a Cure covers comp is going too far for you purists, then how about just an EP featuring remixes of all those LP13 pre-release singles? And what if those remixes were executed by, say, 30 Seconds To Mars, Fall... CONTINUE READING THE CURE ANNOUNCE AN EMO FRIENDLY REMIX EP, RELEASE "THE PERFECT BOY"»
Posted on August 12, 2008 (9 comments)
Tags: 30 Seconds To Mars | Fall Out Boy | Grizzly Bear | My Chemical Romance | The Cure | TV On The Radio
Natasha Khan loves covers and the Cure see their share of 'em, so this was a statistical inevitability. The track comes as part of a larger compilation full of takes on Robert & Co.'s works, entitled Perfect As Cats: A... CONTINUE READING BAT FOR LASHES COVERS THE CURE»
Posted on August 6, 2008 in (4 comments)
Tags: Academy Awards | Bat For Lashes | Department Of Eagles | The Cure
The latest installment of the Cure's pre-album release Single Of The Month Club, "Sleep When I'm Dead," threw us for a loop on Monday, coming unexpectedly in repeated-clip form. But now thanks to a YouTube upload by Craig, he of... CONTINUE READING NEW CURE VIDEO - "SLEEP WHEN I'M DEAD"»
Posted on July 16, 2008 in (9 comments)
Tags: The Cure
In a new seven-song live session, ScarJo supplements her prolonged assault on the Tom Waits songbook with a take on the Cure's "Boys Don't Cry." Buyer beware: It's an iTunes exclusive, so the curiosity click will cost you a dollar.... CONTINUE READING SCARLETT JOHANSSON COVERS THE CURE»
Posted on July 15, 2008 in (35 comments)
Tags: Scarlett Johansson | The Cure
The Cure's newest in their series of pre-album monthly singles has a looping quality to go with the basic, repeated, and very truthful lyrical thrust of "I'll sleep when I'm dead, you angels ... but until then." At first (and... CONTINUE READING NEW CURE - "SLEEP WHEN I'M DEAD"»
Posted on July 14, 2008 (7 comments)
Tags: The Cure
As the 2008 nostalgia train continues, so do the Cure. Robert & friends have been playing live shows and releasing monthly singles, all in anticipation of the 9/13 release of album the 13th. As far as the singles go, "The... CONTINUE READING NEW CURE - "UNDERNEATH THE STARS" (LIVE IN NYC)»
Posted on June 24, 2008 in (11 comments)
Tags: The Cure
Those who weren't compelled to purchase Cure's "Freakshow" when it hit iTunes the other day can now stream it for free here. Could be worse.... CONTINUE READING THE 13TH»
Posted on June 13, 2008 (5 comments)
Tags: The Cure
2 down, 2 to go. The Cure's monthly march of singles in anticipation of LP13 is well underway, and gets a new chapter today with "Freakshow." Halfway into this thing we can say it's not exactly a hit parade. It's... CONTINUE READING NEW CURE - "FREAKSHOW"»
Posted on June 10, 2008 in , , (4 comments)
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