Tag: The Cure

LIVE: Lollapalooza webcast featuring The Cure, Nine Inch Nails and more — full schedule

LIVE: Lollapalooza webcast featuring The Cure, Nine Inch Nails and more — full schedule

Can’t make it to Chicago this weekend for Lollapalooza? Don’t worry, you can still see the three-day festival — well part of it, anyway — thanks to weekend-long livestream of the event, which will feature webcasts of performances by The Cure, Nine Inch Nails and more.

The Cure to perform in Mexico between Austin City Limits appearances this October

The Cure to perform in Mexico between Austin City Limits appearances this October

The Cure will return to Mexico — site of the band’s epic 4-hour, 50-song performance in an earthquake-rattled stadium on Robert Smith’s birthday this past April — for an arena concert in Monterrey on Oct. 8, the first date to emerge between the band’s headlining slots at the two-weekend Austin City Limits Music Festival.

The Cure to play first-ever concert in Hawaii next month ahead of Lollapalooza

The Cure to play first-ever concert in Hawaii next month ahead of Lollapalooza

The Cure next month will warm up for its pair of early August festival dates in North America — the band is playing both Lollapalooza in Chicago and Osheaga Festival Musique et Arts in Montreal the weekend of Aug. 2-4 — with its first-ever Hawaiian concert, a July 30 headlining date in Honolulu.

Vintage Video: 'The Cure in Orange' — watch out-of-print 1987 concert film in full

Vintage Video: ‘The Cure in Orange’ — watch out-of-print 1987 concert film in full

While we’ve posted this before — more than three years ago, in fact — The Cure’s Robert Smith has yet to follow through with his announcement of a DVD release of “The Cure in Orange,” so, as it remains sadly out of print, we once again present the full 1987 concert film, thanks to the miracle of YouTube.

Video: Finland's The Saturnettes pay musical tribute to 'Bob From The Cure'

Video: Finland’s The Saturnettes pay musical tribute to ‘Bob From The Cure’

Finland indie-pop outfit The Saturnettes — aka singer-songwriter Jann Wilde — this week released the lead single from the group’s forthcoming second album, an infectious number called “Bob From The Cure,” that, yes, is about the song’s protagonist bearing a certain resemblance to one Robert Smith.

Depeche Mode joins The Cure as Austin City Limits Music Festival headliners

Depeche Mode joins The Cure as Austin City Limits Music Festival headliners

The rumors were true: Depeche Mode will join their contemporaries in The Cure as headliners at this October’s Austin City Limits Music Festival, according to the official lineup revealed tonight. The festival also will feature appearances by Thom Yorke’s Atoms for Peace, Muse and Wilco.

The Cure playing two-weekend Austin City Limits Music Festival in October

The Cure playing two-weekend Austin City Limits Music Festival in October

This year’s Austin City Limits Music Festival won’t officially announce its lineup until May 7, but the event’s organizers are cleverly planting clues around Austin in newspaper ads, plastic cups, T-shirts and even bottle caps. And it’s the latter that, by all appearances, confirms The Cure will play the Texas festival.