As The Cure return to the stage with their first album in 16 years, their leader is employing a setup that defiantly rejects ...

With his band’s first new album in 16 years out Friday, post-punk’s dark prince discusses enduring on his own terms and ...

Sixteen years after the last Cure album, Robert Smith has created an unrelentingly serious and sad work unlike anything his ...

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Mannequin Deposit by The House Flies My favorite time of year is here: cool autumn air, hoodies, bonfires, long-sleeve band T ...

How perfect does Robert Smith’s voice still ... strings (think “Lullaby”), dirgey, grungy guitars, and an low undercurrent of reed organ as Smith details a broken, permanently damaged ...

It started with a promise between friends and turned into every producer’s worst nightmare: Inside the aborted first attempt ...

The Cure — whose 65-year-old frontman Robert Smith is famous for ... decades-spanning career. Led by Smith's plaintive, wailing voice and rich guitar textures, the band helped shape Goth rock ...

“He’s up there,” she’d say, “wallowing in his own misery.” The sound of Smith’s voice and narcotic guitar seeped out from the crack of his bedroom door like dry ice, actively ...

James and Tony worked together for years in Health & Happiness Show, which also included Vinny DeNunzio (The Feelies) and at ...