Robert Smith has been talking about a new Cure album for a while now. It'll be "dark," inspired by the loss of his mother, father, and brother, it has the working title Live From The Moon, and the plan is to have it out by Christmas. And even though it'll be the Cure's first album…

Get excited... The Cure, live at Glastonbury 2019The Cure‘s Robert Smith has revealed that the goth-rock icons have three new albums in the works – with the first potentially arriving before the end of 2019. After previously revealing that their next effort will be shaped by the “darkness” of losing his mother, fa...

If you know anything about the Mountain Goats, then you know John Darnielle regularly writes vast numbers of songs, pretty much all of which are great, and not all of which manage to make their way onto Mountain Goats albums. Darnielle has a number of ways of dealing with those overflow songs. Sometimes, he puts…

Used to be there was an unwritten rule in music criticism: Only employ "Beatles-esque" as a last resort. I mean, this band virtually created pop music as we know it, its influence so vast and multivalent that they were practically ambient. "Beatles-esque" was as utilitarian as "ethereal" and "angular." Nowadays, I can't even remember the&#82...

The singer watched on as the band headlined Pasadena Daydream over the weekendThe Cure / Lady GagaLady Gaga lavished praise on The Cure as she watched the band’s headline set at Pasadena Daydream festival over the weekend. Held at the Rose Bowl’s Brookside Park in the California city on Saturday night (August 31), The Cure curated t...