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burning questions

Which News Item Will Cause Music Snobs To Complain Louder?

The one about the Hold Steady playing a couple of shows in Europe as a support act for Counting Crows, or the one about the new Cure single featuring remixes by 30 Seconds To Mars' Jared Leto, My Chemical Romance's Gerard Way, AFI's Jade E. Puget, and Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz and Patrick Stump? I think it's a toss-up, although I have heard that there are a lot of Counting Crows fans lurking in the shadows out there... [AHN / NME]

11:30 AM on Tue Aug 12 2008
By Maura Johnston
463 views, 24 comments

Latest by DocStrange: @D.R. Mosby: I really liked that last Cure album. "The End of the World" was Smith's best single since "Mint Car" (or maybe even "Friday I'm In Love") more »

corporate rock still sells

No, Really, Don't Call It A Comeback: Candlebox Returns, And Other Has-Beens Aren't Far Behind

Many people find it hard to tell the great from the godawful when it comes to 21st-century mainstream rock. To help figure out which is which, here's "Corporate Rock Still Sells," where Al "GovernmentNames" Shipley examines what's good, bad, and ugly in the world of rock and roll. This time around, he takes a look at a couple of old reliables who have re-entered the rock charts. More »

3:00 PM on Thu Jun 26 2008
By Al Shipley
800 views, 11 comments

now do 'pigs'

Charlotte Sometimes' "How I Could Just Kill A Man" Fails To Sound Like Cypress Hill Meets The Cure

When I first heard that an artist named Charlotte Sometimes had a new single named "How I Could Just Kill A Man," I hoped for a song that sounded like Evanescence produced by DJ Muggs. Instead, the track is just some sub-Regina Spektor (if not sub-Sara Bareilles) ditty whose chorus simply happens to end with "you can't understand / how I could just kill a man." Judging from lyrics like "sleeping tires, I'm told they never drive" and "I'm choosing to leave with your heart on my sleeve," she really would have been better off covering the original. More »

1:30 PM on Wed Jun 11 2008
By Anthony Miccio
780 views, 4 comments

Latest by n/a: The Soul Assasins record? That album is awesome! I just don't get how someone can ask you if you know that song, ask you to play it, and you come up with this? more »

videodrone

The Cure Are Still In Love With You

The Cure is back and in radio-ready swoon mode, with Robert Smith hitting high notes and the guitars jangling behind his giddiness over the physical rapture you provide him. Porl Thompson (looking not unlike Boy George with his eyeliner and skull tattoo) is back in the recording line-up for the first time since 1992's Wish, and I'm glad to see (or at least hear it—ugh, that skull tattoo). Hey, maybe that's why this sounds so much like "High!" More »

10:00 AM on Thu May 15 2008
By Anthony Miccio
493 views, 13 comments

Latest by HomefrontRadio: @Chris: i prefer the 3 minute candyfloss too, but after 'Friday I'm In Love' they seemed to become increasingly more desperate as the effortless hooks of those sort of songs vanished. Can anyone really sing 'Mint Car' or 'Cut Here'? more »

oh, really?

Joel Madden Allegedly Knows Every Cure Song

When Good Charlotte's Joel Madden and babymama Nicole Richie aren't going on double dates with Paris Hilton and brother Benj, he spends quality time with his infant daughter Harlow Winter, listening to The Head On The Door. "We've been on tour about a month now, I used to sing songs to [Harlow] every day. And there's a band she really likes, it's called The Cure. Big Cure fan. So I've learned all their songs and we'll sing one tonight. This is called 'Love Song.'" All their songs? Does Joel cry "waiting for the deathblow" over the crib at night? Have renditions of "Hot! Hot Hot!" accompanied bathtime? More »

4:15 PM on Thu Apr 17 2008
By Anthony Miccio
553 views, 9 comments

Latest by Clevertrousers: @Dick Laurent is dead.: Ha! Good call! more »

If you were hoping to hear the new Cure album sometime before spring 2008, you're S.O.L.: it's been delayed yet again. Fat Bob is still deciding on producers, format, and just about everything else from the sound of it. Maybe don't write so many songs next time, pal. [Reuters]

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Robert Smith says the new album from The Cure will be an expanded affair, and it'll be available both as a label-approved single disc and as a double-album "for the fans." (One track is reported to be named "The Hungry Ghost." Please make your own joke and save me the trouble.) [gigwise.com]

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The Vault: When The Cure's B-Sides Were As Good As Their A-Sides

Yes, yes, we get it: Robert Smith is an icon, a legend, an inspiration—and, it seems, a guy who has no qualms about taking a Stipe-like victory dance about his back catalog, despite the fact that his band's last start-to-finish listenable album was nearly fifteen years ago. But remember when the Cure were so good, even a B-side from 1985 sounded like amazing? More »

12:14 PM on Thu Dec 7 2006
By Brian Raftery
533 views, 10 comments

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