Robert Smith and co will top the bill at Isle Of Wight bash tonight (September 10)

Baltimore’s Future Islands have an uncommon touch with injecting grit and claustrophobic stains on otherwise melodic new wave. Calling the first single from their new LP “Balance” has certain poetry to it, then. The record On The Water follows this summer’s “Before The Bridge,” and here...

Patrick Stump is set to perform in a Cure covers band later this year.In a series of tweets between himself and Joe Trohman (Fall Out Boy, The Damned Things), Dustin Currier (The Felix Culpa) and Mike Kinsella (Owen, American Football), the Fall Out Boy vocalist looks to be arranging a gig for September.The conversation between the musicians rea...

The Cure finished a two-day appearance at Sydney’s Vividfest yesterday, where the band played all of their first three albums, Three Imaginary Boys, Seventeen Seconds, and Faith. They not only played those albums, but included an encore of over a dozen other tracks. Other bonuses: the band sang happy birthday to bassist Simon Gallup, w...

Beth Orton, Phil Collins and The Cure’s Robert Smith also honour late folk artist