December 13 14th KROQ will be hosting the Almost Acoustic Christmas at the Gibson Ampitheatre. Here's the line up: Saturday: The Offspring Stone Temple Pilots Rise Against AFI Staind Three Days Grace Slightly Stoopid Hollywood Undead Sunday: The Cure The Killers Death Cab for Cutie Paramore Franz Ferdinand Scott Weiland Snow Patrol Vampire Weekend Here's some songs from the bands: The Ki...
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In the course of conversation the other night, the subject shifted to opera - a musical form that has never garnered much of my attention. I don't go to operas. I don't proactively listen to opera. I'm not a big fan of the genre. The only "Magic Flute" that I care about is my own, if you get my drift. But my friend was going on and on about how hearing the late Luciano Pavarotti sing the exquis...
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Yup, it's here. I'm officially too old to even leave a good-looking corpse. Although my wife would beg to differ, haha.To be honest, last year I was quite depressed about my birthday. Work wasn't going well, there were lots of things going on in and around the family that made the prospect of being 39 not very appealing. I was kicking against the pricks, so to speak. I even left my own birthday...
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Go ahead, put that red button in your Post-Punk Friday and smoke it.There was a time, a long time ago, when I didn't have every Cure album readily available to me. I hadn't delved into the back catalog beyond the Japanese Whispers mini-album, didn't have that desire to have every song Robert Smith committed to tape/vinyl/plastic/whatever.Taking a chance and picking up the Concert casette change...
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last night i was listening (on shuffle) when this song came on.ok i am torn about deleting it off my machine.it is hard to cover hendrix for ANYBODY.but this one kinda struck me as....say odd vote nowa keeper?sucks/blows/kill the cure?
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It seems the Cure are taking every precaution to unjinx the release of their 13th studio album. Fear of the number 13 is common news for airports and hotels, with gate 13 or floor 13 being omitted from many. But the Cure are looking "triskaidekaphobia":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triskaidekaphobia in the eye and releasing four A & B side singles each month up, the first on May 13th, up until t...
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Remembrance of Things Past: Friday Night The Cure at Madison Square Garden:1) Wake up to "Six Different Ways" set on my alarm2) Doodle Robert Smith on a spare scrap of the NY Post3) Re-read all his infamous interviews from Rollingstone looking for inspiration4) Think about how guilty all those major labels that first rejected the skinny kids from London's Crawley suburbs back in the day. Think ...
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This is not the first Cure video I ever saw; that honor would go to their silly video for "Let's Go To Bed". However, between endless plays of the video on local music video shows, and over-saturation on KROQ, I got really tired of that song. I would later appreciate it, given some space.No, this is the video and song that convinced me, back in 1983, that I should pay attention to The Cure.I do...
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who knows when i stopped knowing or why: some Monday mornings are for calling in sick, kicking off the slippers, climbing onto bed, playing air guitar in full first person shooting game force to no bollocks songs.The Cure circa 1979; from www.afoolisharrangement.com"if i was a boy with a pretty mouth and friends who play musical instruments" mixred button1- The Cure : Temptation Two (Aka LGTB) ...
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Another 13th has passed and with it The Cure have released a video for the third single "Sleep When I'm Dead" off their forthcoming album. The untitled effort -- tentatively being called mix 13, is the band's 13th studio album -- is promised to be out September 13th. Hopefully by then it will also have a real title. The single was released yesterday with the b-side Down Under.Personally the vi...
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So, over a week ago on Saturday, Oct. 6th I had a hot date with Robert Smith from The Cure. We were to meet at The Download Festival at Shoreline Amphitheatre at Mountain View, CA according to his personal assistant who had contacted me to inform me Robert had accepted my invitation. Boy, was I ever excited!I arrived a few hours after the festival started around 5:00 p.m. I heard Black Rebel M...
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In a recent post, Dale - fittingly Trusted MOGger, fabricator of the EMCD label, and notorious purveyor of intoxicating sounds - came up with some vintage live tracks by British new-wave standard-bearers The Cure. It was some early stuff, circa the Seventeen Seconds album, including a compelling take on "In Your House." And I was well chuffed that Dale unleashed it upon us.The good news: With t...
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Did I miss this or something? Holy crap, the Cure are heading to the US this spring for a major tour. So major they are plying both Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall (where industrial electronica act"65 Days Of Static":http://www.myspace.com/sixtyfivedaysofstatic will be their special guest) when they come to New York. The band will even hit the land of my ancestors and pierogis o...
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From 'Pictures Of You', tribute to The Cure CD given away free with the NME;,......STOP!
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Robert Smith doesn't want you to buy the new Cure Hypnagogic States EP from iTunes. Says paying £7.99 for it is a rip off and "absurd"! In a blog post on Cure's Web site Smith not only sounded pissed about it ("For fuck sake!) but points out that it's "not a fucking album, it's a 5 track EP"! At least he's doing something about it. You can find out what he really feels the EP should go for bel..
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