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Video Of The Day: Crystal Castles' "Not In Love" (Featuring Robert Smith)

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) January 17, 2011 4:53 pm
Crystal Castles' video for their cover of Platinum Blonde's "Not In Love," featuring vocals from Cure frontman Robert Smith, is pretty much what you'd expect the visuals for the song to look like. It's a mix of The Cure's ethereal, pretty depressing mystery circa 1989's Disintegration (think "Fascination Street" in particular) and Crystal Castles...
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Robert Smith On Crystal Castles Single

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) October 25, 2010 11:35 am
Hipsters who have no idea who The Cure are: Crystal Castles are here to enlighten you.Cure frontman Robert Smith will appear on a different version of "Not In Love," Crystal Castles' upcoming new single from their Polaris Music Prize long listed sophomore self-titled album. Smith will sing on it, which means perhaps there'll be less screeching...
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The Cure's Robert Smith On Quebec Singer's New Album

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By Jason MacNeil (CHARTattack) January 19, 2010 3:32 pm
The Cure's Robert Smith will appear on the as-yet untitled new album by Quebec rock singer Anik Jean that's slated to come out in April. Jean and Smith duet on the song "J'aurai Tout Essaye" ("I Shall Have Tried Everything") which was posted earlier today on YouTube. Anik sings portions of the song in French while Smith sings...
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Billy Corgan's "Gothageddon" Doll Battle Available To Watch Online

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) October 29, 2009 3:36 pm
If you're really bored and in a serious need for some laughs, you can watch the recent Gothageddon dolls battle, which pitted puppets representing Billy Corgan and Robert Smith against each other, online. Corgan's doll and his puppet pals "wrestled" Smith, Amanda Palmer and Bauhaus' Peter Murphy in a tag-team match, but were met by a...
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Goth Dolls Battle Features Billy Corgan, Robert Smith, Peter Murphy, Amanda Palmer In Fight

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) October 23, 2009 4:40 pm
Billy Corgan is a well-known fan of professional wrestling, was once rumoured to be considering a pro-wrestling career and has even appeared in a TNA ad containing a reworked version of The Smashing Pumpkins' "Bullet With Butterfly Wings." Corgan will put his obsession to good use on Friday (Oct. 23) night when a Billy Corgan doll (...
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Robert Smith Disagrees Violently With Radiohead

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By CHARTattack Staff February 23, 2009 5:45 pm
It's taken a year-and-a-half to speak up about it, but The Cure frontman Robert Smith has a bone to pick with the pay-what-you-want policy Radiohead instituted with In Rainbows in late 2007. "The Radiohead experiment of paying what you want — I disagreed violently with that," Smith told Britain's The Times newspaper. "You can't...
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The Cure Have A Dream

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) September 17, 2008 10:24 am
Like former Toronto Maple Leafs captain Mats Sundin, Robert Smith and The Cure clearly don't fear the number 13. 4:13 Dream, their 13th album, will be out Oct. 28 through Geffen Records. Though Smith had previously stated the disc would come out on Oct. 13 in the U.K. (and on Oct. 14 in North America), it has been pushed back a bit. 4:13 Dream...
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Robert Smith Loses His Sanity

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Photographer: 
Richard Beland
Venue: 
Curiosa Festival
City: 
Toronto
Date: 
February 14, 2008

"Oh God, Not Again": Robert Smith On Killing An Arab

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By Sean K. Robb (CHARTattack) October 29, 2001 5:30 pm
Every 10 years or so it seems, The Cure singer-songwriter Robert Smith is haunted by the specter of a song he wrote as a student over 20 years ago. Inspired by the classic existentialist novel The Stranger, by Albert Camus, "Killing An Arab" is a short three-minute burst of metaphysical angst that is meant to question the meaning of...
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