Sirius XM’s 1st Wave to pay tribute to The Cure over Memorial Day weekend
Better late than never: Plans to turn over Sirius XM’s 1st Wave to Robert Smith and The Cure for a full week in April apparently […]
Tag: The Cure
Coachella pulls the plug on The Cure’s curfew-busting set mid-song
Perhaps The Cure were on to something after all when they abruptly ended Friday night’s warm-up gig in Las Vegas. Practice for the main event? […]
The Cure warms up for Coachella in Las Vegas, cuts show short
Robert Smith took the The Cure out to a Las Vegas casino last night to warm up for the band’s Sunday night headlining slot at […]
Coachella Webcast to feature sets by The Cure, Morrissey, Bob Mould
For those not able to make it out to this weekend’s 10th anniversary Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, Calif., the fine folks […]
Pixies’ Black Francis teams up with wife for Grand Duchy album, warm-up tour
Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV is a man of many monikers: Black Francis, Frank Black, Frank Black Francis. Now comes the Pixies frontman’s latest musical […]
The Cure’s Robert Smith rails against ‘free music.’ Again
A little over a month after his last all-caps, double-spaced rant against “THIS ‘ART FOR FREE’ IDEA,” The Cure’s sourpuss of a frontman, Robert […]
‘Adventureland’ anchored by pitch-perfect ’80s college-rock soundtrack
This past weekend saw the release of “Adventureland,” a sweet and very funny coming-of-age tale set in 1987 that’s as notable for its ample cinematic […]
Wayne Hussey chronicles The Mission’s final gig with ‘Live & Last’
Frontman Wayne Hussey retired The Mission — aka The Mission UK on these shores — a year ago with a series of album-spanning gigs in […]
Cassette art: Turning old tapes into Robert Smith, Ian Curtis, Ian Brown
The alleged vinyl resurgence may be all the rage in the media right now, but for many of us who came of musical age in […]
Video: The Cure at NME’s ‘Big Gig’
Earlier this month, The Cure received NME’s annual “Godlike Geniuses” award and headlined the Brit mag’s annual “Big Gig.” Part of the band’s two-hour set […]
The Cure warming up for Coachella with theater gig at Las Vegas’ Palms Casino
For those of you who’d rather see The Cure in a (relatively) intimate club rather than standing in a field with 50,000 other people, here’s […]
Sirius XM’s 1st Wave to dedicate a week to Robert Smith and The Cure in April
Details are still a bit sketchy, but Sirius XM’s 1st Wave channel — for longtime XM listeners, that’s the watered-down replacement for the late, lamented […]
‘Welcome to the Occupation’
Welcome to Slicing Up Eyeballs, a site devoted to the past, present and future of ’80s college, indie and modern rock — the bands that […]
