The 1980s were a great time for The Cure. The band managed to find the right balance between their goth rock leanings and a more pop-focused sound. However, frontman Robert Smith wasn’t particularly ...

“All Cats Are Grey” comes from The Cure’s 1981 album Faith. Like many of The Cure’s songs, this one has roots in literature. Specifically, this song was inspired by Mervyn Peake‘s fantasy novel series ...

When The Cure released their Greatest Hits album back in 2001, they recorded new acoustic versions of 18 songs for a bonus CD. It includes unplugged versions of “Boys Don’t Cry,” “The Love Cats,” ...

As of this writing, Songs Of A Lost World isn’t just the most critically acclaimed Cure album of all time. It’s the most critically acclaimed Cure album by such an insurmountable margin that you’d ...

You might think that after being silent for 16 years, The Cure would be in a rush to get things going. Think again. It takes over three minutes of “Alone” — the first song on their new album — before ...

Welcome to the 36th Songs of the Week of 2024. This week Andy Von Pip, Caleb Campbell, Marc Abbott, Matt the Raven, Scotty Dransfield, and Stephen Humpries helped me decide what should make the list.

Let’s face it: For most of 2024, for most of recent memory, rock music has been dead. But just as the Day of the Dead is upon us, the Cure has brought the genre back to life. The goth gods — who had ...

The entire soundtrack to The Crow paints a brilliant portrait of underground music in the ’90s, featuring a number of groundbreaking acts. Among them are the Cure, whose contribution, “Burn,” is such ...

Welcome to the 31st Songs of the Week of 2024. This week Andy Von Pip, Caleb Campbell, Matt the Raven, and Scotty Dransfield helped me decide what should make the list. We considered over 20 songs and ...

The best Cure albums feature some of the most “Leave me alone, Mom!” music of all time, and ebullient hits like “Friday I’m in Love,” the sonic equivalent of the smiling emoji. That's range! Across a ...

How perfect does Robert Smith’s voice still sound? Most of his ’80s contemporaries’ pipes are shadows of what they once were, but on The Cure’s Songs of a Lost World, this is the voice you remember ...