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  • Robert Smith performs 3 songs off The Cure’s ‘Faith’ for charity livestream

    Robert Smith performs 3 songs off The Cure’s ‘Faith’ for charity livestream

    • 27 December 2020
    • Video
    • 2 comments

    A couple weeks after playing three songs off The Cure’s Seventeen Seconds for a charity webcast Robert Smith was at it again this week, this time performing a trio of songs off that album’s follow-up, Faith, for a different fundraising broadcast. Watch the full set right here.

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  • Robert Smith performs 3 songs off The Cure’s ‘Seventeen Seconds’ for charity livestream

    Robert Smith performs 3 songs off The Cure’s ‘Seventeen Seconds’ for charity livestream

    • 12 December 2020
    • Video
    • 9 comments

    The Cure’s Robert Smith performed a trio of songs off 1980’s Seventeen Seconds for the Robin Ince-hosted “Nine Lessons and Carols for Curious People” 24-hour charity livestream, a set broadcast Saturday that included “In Your House,” “M” and “Play for Today.” Watch the full set right here.

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  • The Cure to release ‘Seventeen Seconds,’ ‘Bloodflowers’ picture discs on Record Store Day

    The Cure to release ‘Seventeen Seconds,’ ‘Bloodflowers’ picture discs on Record Store Day

    • 8 March 2020
    • Album News, Vinyl
    • 1 comment

    No stranger to Record Store Day exclusives, The Cure will participate this year by issuing 40th and 20th anniversary editions, respectively, of Seventeen Seconds and Bloodflowers. Both will be 12-inch vinyl picture discs, with download cards, and available in both the U.S. and U.K. Full details right here.

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  • Frankie Rose records full-album cover of The Cure’s ‘Seventeen Seconds’ — hear ‘A Forest’

    Frankie Rose records full-album cover of The Cure’s ‘Seventeen Seconds’ — hear ‘A Forest’

    • 26 September 2017
    • Digital Music, Vinyl
    • 7 comments

    Frankie Rose, a former member of indie-pop groups including Vivian Girls and Dum Dum Girls, has recorded a front-to-back cover of The Cure’s 1980 sophomore album Seventeen Seconds that will be made available next month to members of the Sounds Delicious vinyl subscription service. Stream “A Forest” here.

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  • Free download: Cowboy Junkies cover The Cure’s ‘Seventeen Seconds’

    Free download: Cowboy Junkies cover The Cure’s ‘Seventeen Seconds’

    • 23 January 2015
    • Digital Music
    • 3 comments

    For a band that broke big back in 1988 with a cover of the Velvet Underground’s “Sweet Jane,” it’s fitting that the Cowboy Junkies and their label Latent Recordings are treating fans to a monthly series of free downloads of interpretations of some of their favorite songs.

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  • The Cure announces new album ‘4:14 Scream,’ live DVDs, new ‘Trilogy’-style tour

    The Cure announces new album ‘4:14 Scream,’ live DVDs, new ‘Trilogy’-style tour

    • 3 February 2014
    • Album News
    • 22 comments

    The Cure’s two sold-out shows at London’s Royal Albert Hall in March are being billed as just the beginning of “a very busy 2014” for Robert Smith and Co., with the band today announcing plans to release the long-delayed companion to 2008’s 4:13 Dream and a series of live DVDs — and a third ‘Trilogy’ tour.

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  • Stream: The Cure’s first American concert — newly discovered tape of Cherry Hill, NJ, 1980

    Stream: The Cure’s first American concert — newly discovered tape of Cherry Hill, NJ, 1980

    • 6 June 2012
    • Digital Music
    • 36 comments

    Journalist Van Gosse, who trailed The Cure’s first U.S. tour in April 1980 on behalf of Melody Maker, has unearthed a long-lost cassette recording he made of the band’s first-ever American concert on April 4, 1980, at Emerald City in Cherry Hill, N.J. You can stream the entire concert right here.

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  • The Cure’s Robert Smith hints at 2012 tour, tells New York: ‘We’ll see you again next year’

    The Cure’s Robert Smith hints at 2012 tour, tells New York: ‘We’ll see you again next year’

    • 28 November 2011
    • Concerts
    • 11 comments

    As The Cure wrapped up its second straight 48-song ‘Reflections’ concert in New York City last night (Friday’s show was only 46 songs long), frontman Robert Smith signed off by saying, ‘We’ll see you again next year’ — hinting that the revived band’s 2011 shows were no anomaly, and fans may see The Cure back on tour next year.

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  • Robert Smith to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: ‘Jason Cooper is The Cure’s drummer… bah!’

    Robert Smith to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: ‘Jason Cooper is The Cure’s drummer… bah!’

    • 28 September 2011
    • Beefs
    • 36 comments

    Robert Smith’s not happy with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, slamming the organization online for not mentioning his just-nominated band’s current drummer in its bio of the group, writing, ‘Jason Cooper is The Cure’s drummer — and it sickens me that he doesn’t get a name check… bah!’

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  • The Cure to perform ‘Reflections’ concerts in London, New York, Los Angeles in November

    The Cure to perform ‘Reflections’ concerts in London, New York, Los Angeles in November

    • 27 September 2011
    • Tour Dates
    • 11 comments

    The Cure announced today that it will reprise its ‘Reflections’ concerts seven more times this November, and will perform their first three albums — 1979′s ‘Three Imaginary Boys,’ 1980′s ‘Seventeen Seconds’ and 1981′s ‘Faith’ — in New York, Los Angeles and London.

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  • Video: The Cure plays 44-song ‘Reflections’ concert with Lol Tolhurst, Roger O’Donnell

    Video: The Cure plays 44-song ‘Reflections’ concert with Lol Tolhurst, Roger O’Donnell

    • 31 May 2011
    • Setlist, Video
    • 19 comments

    The Cure has just wrapped up a 44-song, nearly four-hour performance at Australia’s famed Sydney Opera House — a concert that found Robert Smith & Co. running through the band’s first three albums in their entirety and reuniting with former keyboardists Lol Tolhurst and Roger O’Donnell.

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