Tag: The Cure

Watch: The Cure’s full 2-hour-plus 40th anniversary concert at London’s Hyde Park

Watch: The Cure’s full 2-hour-plus 40th anniversary concert at London’s Hyde Park

Following this weekend’s 40th anniversary show by The Cure in London’s Hyde Park, we posted audio and a number of videos of Robert Smith’s rapturously received greatest-hits set. But now you can watch the full 2-hour-15-minute concert in full, thanks to this fan-shot video posted by Sim Production. Watch it right here.

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — 3 hours of The Cure special edition (7/8/18)

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’ — 3 hours of The Cure special edition (7/8/18)

“Dark Wave,” hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Matt Sebastian, airs 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. EDT every Sunday on Sirius XM satellite radio’s 1st Wave (Channel 33). The most recent two episodes also are available via Sirius XM’s On Demand service for online subscribers. Check out tonight’s all-Cure playlist.

The Cure goes big with greatest hits set for 40th anniversary gig — setlist, full audio, tons of video

The Cure goes big with greatest hits set for 40th anniversary gig — setlist, full audio, tons of video

Robert Smith led the current incarnation of alt-rock titans The Cure through a greatest-hits set tonight filled with big singles, fan favorites and a couple rarer cuts as he celebrated the band’s 40-year career with a huge outdoor festival in London’s Hyde Park. Full setlist and tons of video right here.

You’ll hear nothing but The Cure on this weekend’s edition of Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’

You’ll hear nothing but The Cure on this weekend’s edition of Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave’

Sirius XM’s 1st Wave channel today begins its Fourth of July “4 for The Cure” weekend, with four-song blocks by Robert Smith and Co. every hour through Sunday, coupled with special all-Cure editions of Lori Majewski’s “Lust for Lists” and the Slicing Up Eyeballs-hosted “Dark Wave,” which airs at 10 p.m. Eastern on Sunday.

The Cure closes Robert Smith’s Meltdown by going ‘there to here and back again’ — hear the full set

The Cure closes Robert Smith’s Meltdown by going ‘there to here and back again’ — hear the full set

The Robert Smith-curated Meltdown festival in London wrapped up Sunday night with a headlining performance by The Cure — or, rather, CURÆTION-25, as the band was billed — that featured a there-and-back-again, two-set retrospective of the band’s 40-year career. Check out the full setlist right here.

This week’s new releases: The Cure, Peter Murphy, Nine Inch Nails, Pete Shelley

This week’s new releases: The Cure, Peter Murphy, Nine Inch Nails, Pete Shelley

Record Rack: A round-up of the week’s new albums, expanded reissues and/or box sets, appearing each Monday on Slicing Up Eyeballs. All releases due out this Friday unless noted. This week’s releases include titles from The Cure, Peter Murphy, Nine Inch Nails and Pete Shelley of the Buzzcocks.

The Cure resumes deluxe reissue series with 3-disc ‘Mixed Up’ — to be followed by ‘Wish’

The Cure resumes deluxe reissue series with 3-disc ‘Mixed Up’ — to be followed by ‘Wish’

At long last — eight years, to be exact — Robert Smith is resuming the deluxe reissues of albums by The Cure, beginning with an expanded 3-disc edition of the 1990 remix collection Mixed Up that’s due out in June, to be followed, he says, by the long-awaited reissue of 1992’s Wish. Full details right here.

Robert Smith to play Meltdown with ‘curious friends,’ says he’s working on new music

Robert Smith to play Meltdown with ‘curious friends,’ says he’s working on new music

London’s Meltdown festival today announced the remainder of the acts slated for this year’s Robert Smith-curated series of concerts, including festival closer CURÆTION-25: a two-hour performance by Smith at which he’ll be “joined onstage by four of his curious friends.” Full details here.

Watch: Thomas Dolby and Rick Springfield cover The Cure’s ‘Just Like Heaven’ on a boat

Watch: Thomas Dolby and Rick Springfield cover The Cure’s ‘Just Like Heaven’ on a boat

Thomas Dolby will be heading out on tour in the U.S. this summer with a show in which he’ll “deconstruct half a dozen of my favorite songs.” In announcing the tour’s concept on Twitter, he also offered a clip of what fans won’t see: him and Rick Springfield covering The Cure’s “Just Like Heaven.”

The Cure’s ‘Torn Down’ 2LP Record Store Day release features 16 new remixes by Robert Smith

The Cure’s ‘Torn Down’ 2LP Record Store Day release features 16 new remixes by Robert Smith

With the full list of Record Store Day releases now out in the wild, the nature of The Cure’s Mixed Up sequel Torn Down that we first reported over the weekend is now clear: The 2LP picture disc will include 16 brand-new remixes of Cure songs prepared by Robert Smith himself. Full details, including tracklist, right here.

Robert Smith taps My Bloody Valentine, NIN, Psychedelic Furs, Kristin Hersh for Meltdown

Robert Smith taps My Bloody Valentine, NIN, Psychedelic Furs, Kristin Hersh for Meltdown

London’s Meltdown festival today revealed the first round of acts selected by The Cure’s Robert Smith for this year’s series of concerts, a roster that includes My Bloody Valentine, Nine Inch Nails, The Psychedelic Furs, Kristin Hersh of Throwing Muses, and The Church. Full details right here.

The Cure appears to be prepping ‘Mixed Up,’ 2LP companion ‘Torn Down’ for Record Store Day

The Cure appears to be prepping ‘Mixed Up,’ 2LP companion ‘Torn Down’ for Record Store Day

The full list of this year’s Record Store Day releases is expected to be revealed on Tuesday, but sharp-eyed fans of The Cure have spotted evidence that this year’s titles will include a vinyl reissue of 1990 remix album Mixed Up and something called Torn Down: Mixed Up Extras 2018. See the tracklist from Amazon France.

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Robert Smith of The Cure, aka ‘the thinking man’s Duran Duran’

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Robert Smith of The Cure, aka ‘the thinking man’s Duran Duran’

For this week’s installment of “120 Minutes” Rewind, we present this early Martha Quinn intro’d interview with Robert Smith from 1986, conducted to promote The Cure’s then-new compilation Standing on a Beach, and broadcast during the first year of “120 Minutes'” existence. Watch it right here.