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I’m old enough to remember seeing the original The Crow in theatres – a cool movie, but not a good movie – and also the ubiquity of the soundtrack, which opened with what I think is now regarded as one of The Cure’s greatest non-album tracks, “Burn”. It’s the 30th anniversary of the film – […]
The Cure are re-releasing their 1993 live album Paris today, recorded in October 1992 at Le Zenith at the very edge of the 19th arrondissement . It was their second live record released that year, following Show, but unlike that document there was no accompanying video release, which is a shame because the track list […]
Last year, The Cure managed the remarkable feat of staging a world tour in support of an album that hadn’t been and still hasn’t been released. It wrapped in South America with an itinerary that included headlining slots at four Primavera Sound festivals, including Buenos Aires, Argentina in late November and São Paolo, Brazil in […]
The 30th anniversary edition of The Cure’s 1992 Show live set originally came out earlier this year as a double picture disc exclusive for Record Store Day this past Spring, but a regular black vinyl edition was set for general release next Friday, September 8. However, for whatever reason, I’m seeing the set already available […]
A little retroactive housekeeping today, the day I finally cross The Cure off my live bucket list. I’ve done a couple posts focusing on their Seventeen Seconds classic “A Forest”, but both have some notable content omissions I’m rectifying now. One of my earliest posts was a live clip from 1981 of the band playing […]
Quite a rollercoaster week last week for North American Cure fans. First, there was the excitement around the announcement of their tour this Summer for their forthcoming Songs Of A Lost World. That gave way to confusion when the ticketing was announced to be following the TicketMaster “Verified Fans” model, and turned into anger when […]
I appreciate how the automatic subtitles for this one on YouTube open with “Pensive post-punk music”. Yes, it is. Happy Valentine’s Day from The Cure! The third single from their 1989 opus Disintegration is probably one of their most famous and beloved, and was maybe the first Cure song I ever heard. It remains one […]
I’m just to get this out there and out of my drafts folder, and make it three Cure pieces three Fridays in a row. And they’ve all been on Fridays because, well, duh. The 30th anniversary deluxe of edition of Wish finally came out a few weeks ago – digitally and in Record Store Day […]
I said last week that I was working on a Cure post to coincide with the 30th anniversary reissue of Wish… well this is not that. I haven’t had a chance to touch it – and probably won’t for a bit – so I will say thanks to the band for bailing me out by […]
I had something I was working on to coincide with today’s release – finally! – of the deluxe reissue of The Cure’s Wish, but as long as they’ve taken to get it out apparently wasn’t quite long enough for me to finish. So, as a little stopgap while I get that done, here’s the video […]
