Tuesday, July 27, 2010 12:12PM - By Seraphina L.
As if any of you 90′s music lovers didn’t already know, Superchunk are getting ready to release a brand new album titled Majesty Shredding. The album will be their first full-length in seven years (and a follow-up 2009′s EP “Leaves in the Gutter”) and is slated for release on September 14 via Merge Records.
Not only is Merge Records the very label which Superchunk members, Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan, started way back in the day before they gathered an impressive roster including Arcade Fire, Camera Obscura, The Love Language, The Magnetic Fields and more, but Superchunk was also one of the true DIY artists who took music business into their own hands. To promote the news about the upcoming album release, they’ve teamed up with AV Club for a live performance where they cover The Cure. Watch it below!
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010 3:30PM - By Jeffrey Hyatt
Fans of The Cure should prepare to block out some time in their schedule books to devour a brand new, three-disc collection of one of the band’s most popular albums. On May 25, The Cure will release an expanded and remastered edition of its 1989, eighth studio album, Disintegration.
Produced and compiled by Robert Smith, the three-discs set includes a remastered version of the original album, plus unreleased songs, demos, out-takes and live performances.
Check out the complete track list below!
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:14PM - By Seraphina L.
March 5th is coming up fast for fans of Tim Burton and/or the classic tale titled Alice In Wonderland. When Tim Burton first revealed he was working with Johnny Depp on a darker version of the story, who wasn’t excited? Sweeney Todd was back in 2007 and let’s face it, The Corpse Bride provided redemption for the disappointing Charlie and The Chocolate Factory. So, when Burton announced he was taking a stab at another classic, a very surreal and hippie-friendly one at that, our ears perked up and our eyes have been on the lookout.
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009 3:15PM - By davidhall
These days, politicians aren’t the only people flip-flopping on issues.
With some of the industry’s biggest names questioning the vitality of giving fans free music or supporting downloading, it’s getting harder and harder to keep track of who’s maintaining what position – especially because media-hogging musicians, namely Sir Paul McCartney and The Cure frontman Robert Smith, keep changing their minds.
So where do McCartney and Smith stand on the issue now?
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009 4:30PM - By Morelli
The Glastonbury Festival marks its 40th anniversary in 2010, and organizers are planning to book 40 bands from the past 40 years to play live performances at the event. Radiohead, Blur, PJ Harvey, Jeff Buckley, The Cure and Massive Attack are just a few of the thousands of artists that have graced “Glasto’s” stages.
Michael Eavis founded the event in 1970 on his dairy farm near Pilton, Somerset. His daughter Emily said they were both planning the celebration next year, and told the BBC:
“We want to have a band from every year on the Pyramid Stage.”
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Thursday, February 26, 2009 12:00PM - By Morelli
Tim Burton, who has his next 3D movie Alice in Wonderland in the works, wants to collaborate with The Cure, and admits to being a long time fan of the band. The prodigious filmmaker presented the band with the Godlike Genius at the NME awards on Wednesday, and told BBC:
“I’ve been [a fan] for so many years and they’ve been so inspirational to me, so it’s a real honour to be here with them. I could easily see really liking to do something, collaborate some time.”
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009 12:00PM - By Seraphina L.
After Radiohead offered an opportunity for fans to “pay what you want” in regards to their In Rainbows CD, there were a lot of reactions ranging from shock to joy. Later on, more artists such as Girl Talk decided to let their fans determine how much they wanted to donate as well. (Although if you chose to pay $0, Girl Talk’s Feed the Animals host, illegal-art.net, inquired why with a multiple choice question.) The option seemed to work for Radiohead since they immediately sold 1.2 million copies online, and fans still continued to buy physical copies afterward.
However, The Cure‘s Robert Smith has deemed this option to be foolish because it allows the fans to put a value on the artist’s work. Is this business model fundamentally wrong as he says? Or does it not matter because it makes it more convenient for fans? Let us know what you think!
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008 9:36AM - By Kevin
The brand new Cure tribute album titled Just Like Heaven is not officially out until Jaunuary 27 on American Laundromat Records, but Spin.com has the entire album streaming right now.
The album features The Rosebuds, The Brunettes, Dean & Britta, The Submarines and twelve other artists. I highly recommend checking out The Rosebuds doing “The Walk.” It’s quite groovy.
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Friday, October 24, 2008 5:24PM - By Kevin
The Cure have been digitally releasing singles and remixes from their new album 4:13 Dream for a few months now, but as of tomorrow, October 25, you can finally stream the entire new album. The stream will be available on the band’s MySpace page.
4:13 Dream, The Cure’s 13th studio album, is out on Tuesday, October 28 via Geffen Records. The band played the entire album earlier this month at a free show in Rome. Check out the performance of the new track “The Perfect Boy” at the bottom of the post.
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