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Summer festival season peaks with The Cure closing Riot Fest, finale just like heaven

The marathon performance deserves the title of the best headlining set of Chicago’s summer festival season.

Chicago Sun-Times

The Cure’s Lol Tolhurst: ‘Goth is about being in love with the melancholy beauty of existence’

The band’s co-founder on reconciling with Robert Smith and the real meaning of the dark music subculture

The Guardian - UK

‘Instant 80s!’: ex-Midlake singer Tim Smith on mixing William Blake with the Cure

The Texan caused shockwaves when he left Midlake. Now he’s back with his new band Harp – and a musical love letter to the British landscape, full of drum machines and mystical poetry

The Guardian - UK

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Schecter gets graphic on its new signature models for The Cure bassist Simon Gallup

Gallup gets a new EMG-equipped semi-hollow Corsair to join a newly refreshed Ultra Spitfire solidbody, and they are hard to miss with those red finishes and lion graphics

MusicRadar

I saw The Cure with my parents

An ongoing struggle with learning to let others love the music I've grown up on

Salon

Watch The Cure's Robert Smith burst into tears during a recent US show

The Cure frontman Robert Smith got emotional while performing the band's 1989 track Plainsong at a recent gig in Atlanta

Louder

From nightmare ticketing to online abuse, being a pop fan is becoming miserable

The stress of trying to get Taylor Swift tickets this week led to feelings of anger and loathing. It’s all part of a music culture that feels increasingly greedy and combative

The Guardian - UK

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In a summer of Ticketmaster scandals, 'revenge spending' and inflation, Robert Smith of The Cure is the hero we need

The goth icon speaks for all of us: "I AM AS SICKENED AS YOU ALL ARE."

Fortune

Watch The Cure's Robert Smith serenade his wife at LA show

The Cure frontman Robert Smith was in a romantic mood in Los Angeles last month, so sang Plainsong to his wife at the side of the stage

Louder

The Cure plays generous assortment of old and new at United Center

English rockers road-test deliciously depressing new fare alongside forlorn favorites and a sprinkling of whimsical gems.

Chicago Sun-Times

Foo Fighters, The Cure, Queens Of The Stone Age, Turnstile and more announced for Riot Fest 2023

Foo Fighters, The Cure, The Postal Service, Death Cab for Cutie and Queens of the Stone Age are set to headline Riot Fest in Chicago in September

Metal Hammer

British band The Cure has many loyal female fans. What is it about this band that inspires such devotion?

The British post-punk band has many dedicated older female fans, but their fandom is not about fancying lead singer Robert Smith. It's much more interesting.

ABC News

"Sales don't mean anything. Seventeen Seconds sold less than 50,000. We had success later – it doesn’t mean those records are better than Seventeen Seconds”: The Cure’s Robert Smith on how to make it on your own terms

From the Archives: Robert Smith looks back on The Cure’s beginnings, their inevitable ending, and what he's learned along the way

MusicRadar

Deadpan Robert Smith interview resurfaces as The Cure singer celebrates 64th birthday

‘One of my absolute favourite clips of all time,’ one fan wrote

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The Cure's Robert Smith steps up crusade on secondary ticket sales

The Cure have cancelled thousands of tickets on secondary resale websites, says frontman Robert Smith

The Guardian - AU

Seymour Stein, music mogul who discovered Madonna, Talking Heads and more, dies aged 80

Influential executive co-founded Sire Records and signed Lou Reed, the Ramones and introduced the Smiths and the Cure to the US

The Guardian - UK

‘Tours are no longer fun’: Neil Young lambasts Ticketmaster for ripping off fans

Singer-songwriter says ‘the old days are gone’ amid wider consternation at ticketing company’s pricing policies

The Guardian - UK

‘They’re an endurance test!’ Will Taylor Swift begin the era of the three-hour concert?

With cash-strapped fans eager for epic setlists, Swift isn’t the only artist doing extra-long gigs – but performers and fans alike will need to toughen up

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Robert Smith, man of the people, finds a cure for Ticketmaster's ills

An unlikely hero has emerged in the great war on Ticketmaster fees, effecting change which could reverberate throughout the concert industry.

The Independent UK

Lovecats vs Fat Cats: The Cure’s Robert Smith says Ticketmaster will partly refund fees for The Cure shows

Site apparently agreed that fees, which more than doubled price of tickets, were ‘unduly high’

The Guardian - AU

The Cure’s Robert Smith convinces Ticketmaster to refund ‘unduly high’ fees after fan anger

Ticketing giant will refund $10 to fans who bought cheapest tickets on the band’s US tour, and $5 to everyone else after frontman asks for an explanation

Los Angeles Times

The Cure's Robert Smith is 'as sickened as you' by Ticketmaster's latest fees debacle

Scoring tickets to watch the Cure perform live should be just like heaven ... but Ticketmaster is making the process hell for fans.

The Guardian - AU

Morning Mail: AI cracks government ‘voiceprint’ security, Aukus nimby anger, Cure sick at ticket rorts

Technology exposes security flaw in voice identification system used by Centrelink; Wollongong gears up for nuclear fight; Ticketmaster fees criticised

Evening Standard

The Cure’s Robert Smith slams Ticketmaster for high ticket cost for band’s US concert

The rocker isn’t happy with the ticket-selling website after fans met with eye-watering fees

The Guardian - UK

The Cure: Robert Smith tells fans he is ‘sickened’ by Ticketmaster fees as US tour goes on sale

The frontman said that artists had no way to limit the ticketing giant’s fees but his band had declined to participate in the ‘greedy scam’ of dynamic pricing

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