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Just Like Heaven: A Tribute To The Cure

By Sheena Lyonnais (CHARTattack) January 26, 2009 3:47 pm

Just Like Heaven: A Tribute To The Cure is one of the best tribute albums I've ever heard. Instead of a blatant rip-off, Connecticut label American Laundromat Records has released a compilation offering classic Cure songs with a ton of unique indie flare. Standouts include Kitty Karlyle's punked-up version of "In Between Days" and...

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The Cure — 4:13 Dream

By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) December 16, 2008 3:57 pm

The Cure have been releasing an album every four years since 1992's Wish, and each has been worse than the last. That trend continues on 4:13 Dream, their first disc since 2004's self-titled release. Opener "Underneath The Stars" sounds a bit like "Pictures Of You" at first, but it eventually turns into a tune that's nowhere...

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Sasquatch 2008 Day Two

By Quinn Omori (CHARTattack) May 29, 2008 11:30 am

I started day two of the Sasquatch! Music Festival with an early afternoon set by Cold War Kids. Like Beirut the day before, the Kids' music is probably better suited to something a touch smaller and a touch darker than the sprawling Sasquatch main stage, but it was hard to deny the impact of Nathan Willett's soulful wail on "Hang Me Up To...

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The Cure's Robert Smith (Photo by Christopher Nelson)

The Cure Play Hits, Toronto Crowd Indifferent

By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) May 16, 2008 12:30 pm

Openers 65daysofstatic had everything working against them on Thursday night, and their set suffered. When they took the stage, they played to a crowd of probably several hundred people. It's nearly impossible to get a smattering of people spread in patches over a gigantic arena into your music. Secondly, they were only given half an hour to play...

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The Cure's Robert Smith (Photo by Richard Beland)

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Guns N' Roses, Beastie Boys inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

By Mike Searle (CHARTattack) December 7, 2011 12:31 pm

The annual announcement of artists heading into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was announced earlier today, and it included quite a diverse selection of bands and solo singer/songwriters. The Beastie Boys, Guns N’ Roses, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Donovan, Laura Nyro and The Small Faces/The Faces will all be honoured at this year’s induction,...

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I Read The News Today... For May 5, 2011

By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) May 5, 2011 3:32 pm

Ron Sexsmith's songs will be tackled by the likes of the Barenaked Ladies, soprano Measha Brueggergosman, Broken Social Scene's Kevin Drew, The Band's Garth Hudson, Andy Kim and country band Ladies Of The Canyon during this year's Luminato festival in Toronto, which runs June 10 to 19 throughout the city. The Sexsmith tribute will be held June 15...

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

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

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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I Read The News Today... For Aug. 24, 2010

By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) August 24, 2010 1:31 pm

Kasabian celebrated the end of their tour in support of last year's West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum by gatecrashing two weddings with Noel Gallagher. We're guessing there was plenty of booze involved and the language got quite... appropriately filthy. —The Sun My Morning Jacket, R.E.M. and Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom...

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I Read The News Today... For April 29, 2010

By CHARTattack Staff April 29, 2010 12:38 pm

Flaming Lips multi-instrumentalist Steven Drozd was hospitalized on Wednesday (April 28) for unknown reasons, prompting the band to cancel gigs in West Palm Beach, Fla. and Memphis. He reportedly just needs "some rest." —Pitchfork The Cure have offered up a previously unreleased demo of "Delirious Night," a track recorded...

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The Cure's Robert Smith On Quebec Singer's New Album

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

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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Cure Reissuing Disintegration Next Year

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) October 13, 2009 1:30 pm

The Cure's Disintegration will be reissued next spring to mark the 21st anniversary of its release. A release date hasn't been set yet. The classic 1989 album will be available as one CD, a double vinyl package and a three-CD deluxe edition that will include the original album, a disc of rarities and another disc featuring the Entreat live album...

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Robert Smith Disagrees Violently With Radiohead

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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