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The 80 Best Albums of the 1980s

The 1980s might conjure up images of leg warmers, parachute pants, moonwalking, Flock of Seagulls haircuts and any number of John Hughes movies. But looking back at the decade’s best albums, those years were extremely diverse.  read more

The Cure Announce European Festival Dates

The Cure confirmed several European summer festival appearances today, as Consequence of Sound points out. The gloom-rockers —who were already confirmed to play Sweden’s Hultsfred Festival and Germany’s Hurricane and Southside Festivals— now confirmed appearances at France’s Les Eurockéennes and Denmark’s Roskilde Festival.   read more

New Live Album On The Way From The Cure

According to NME, classic post-punk/New Wave group The Cure will be releasing a new live album, The Cure: Bestival Live 2011. As the title suggests, the upcoming album is a compilation of their 2011 Bestival headline set that the group played this past September. The set was a whopping 32 songs over about two and a half hours and the whole experience will be released in a double CD package, due out later this year on December 5.  read more

The Cure To Play First Three Albums In Series of Shows

On May 31 at this year's Vivid Festival in Sydney, gothic rock pioneers The Cure unveiled a special performance, especially for longtime fans: They played a marathon 44-song set that featured full performances of the band's first three albums — Three Imaginary Boys, Seventeen Seconds and Faith — in order as well as a whopping three encores of deep cuts. During the show, which was dubbed the "Reflections" show, Robert Smith and company also reunited with former Cure keyboardists Roger O'Donnell and Lol Tolhurst.  read more

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominees Announced

This morning, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced their nominees for their twenty-sixth induction ceremony. Fifteen artists were nominated, including nine new nominees.  read more

Listen to Robert Smith Cover John Martyn

Robert Smith’s cover of John Martyn’s “Small Hours” recently debuted on BBC Radio 6 Music. The perpetually melancholy frontman of The Cure recorded the song as part of a tribute album for the late British music legend titled Johnny Boy Would Love This…A Tribute to John Martyn. Other artists contributing to the record include Beck, Snow Patrol and Bombay Bicycle Club....  read more

Watch The Cure Cover Jimi Hendrix

The Cure recently performed two massive sets in two days at Sydney’s Vivid Fest, where they provided eager fans with a rare treat by performing their first three albums in their entirety. And to make things even sweeter, the English rockers tore through a cover of Jimi Hendrix’s “Foxy Lady,” which you can find below....  read more

The Cure to Perform First Three Albums for Vivid Live

The Cure are set to perform a rare two-night show at this year’s Vivid Live event at The Sydney Opera House....  read more

The 50 Best British Artists of All Time

While all eyes are on the throne, we pay tribute to our 50 favorite British artists—a rock 'n roll royal family of sorts.  read more

The Cure, Kiss and Billy Joel Contribute to Paul McCartney Covers Album

Paul McCartney is gathering up musicians to contribute to a covers album of songs from the former Beatle’s solo catalog and his work with Wings. The Cure, Kiss and Billy Joel are among the performers recruited for the project....  read more