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“Sales is not a mark of success": 10 brilliant rock bands from the '90s who should have been absolutely massive

The biggest-selling alt. rock bands from the '90s weren't necessarily the best alt. rock bands from the '90s

Louder

“I told them I was dying and they didn’t believe me. I could tell by the look on my doctor’s face that there was something very, very wrong with me”: Robert Smith on the madness and the magic of The Cure’s early days

The goth legends’ ‘Doom Trilogy’ was aptly named

MusicRadar

“When I was growing up, there was peer pressure on you to conform to be a certain way. And as an English boy at the time, you’re encouraged not to show your emotion”: How the young Robert Smith created one of The Cure’s definitive songs

The band’s first song to pass one billion streams on Spotify

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“Teddy was a warm hearted and vital part of The Cure story”: Perry Bamonte, guitarist for The Cure, dies aged 65

Bamonte served two stints with the gothic rock institution, and can be heard on some of their biggest hits

Guitar World

Perry Bamonte, guitarist and keyboardist for the Cure, dies aged 65

Starting as a roadie and guitar tech, Bamonte joined the band in 1990 after its breakthrough album Disintegration

The Guardian - UK

Perry Bamonte, longtime guitarist of The Cure, dies aged 65

The post-punk band confirmed the death of their guitarist and keyboard player following a short illness over Christmas.

Evening Standard

“I could write songs as bad as Wham’s if I really felt the urge to, but what’s the point?”: Dreams, red wine and the desire to explode - Robert Smith’s songwriting approach in his own words

The Cure’s godfather of goth remains one of music’s key figureheads, yet his attitude to songwriting is anything but orthodox

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How The Cure went back to their gothic roots for their new number one album

At Shrewsbury train station, there is a poster advertising The Cure’s new album, Songs of a Lost World. The confident, monochrome minimalism of the art is at odds with the rambling Victorian brickwork, yet there is a kind of sympathy there also.

The Conversation

“I wanted to make the ultimate record. And then the band could stop”: How The Cure’s Pornography, Disintegration and Bloodflowers albums became goth’s great ‘Dark Trilogy’

The Cure’s Robert Smith looks back on the albums that turned the band into the goth icons they are today

Metal Hammer

“They sort of jiggled around for a while until someone found something and took hold of it and the rest went, ‘Great!’” The Cure co-founder Lol Tolhurst’s love for Can

Drummer appreciated krautrock heroes from his early days, along with King Crimson, ELP and others

Louder

The Guardian view on goth: not just for Halloween

Editorial: A series of weighty new studies points to a revival of interest in a saturnine subculture. It may be a sign of the times

The Guardian - UK

Goth connections that led to the Cure

From Sylvia Plath to Joy Division, the Cure co-founder examines the roots and impact of the oft-maligned subculture

Salon

‘Like the Three Tenors, but with drummers’: Budgie, Lol Tolhurst and Jacknife Lee on their supergroup rebirth

The drummers from the Banshees and the Cure joked about a collaboration until – with megaproducer Lee on board – they were soon jamming with The Edge and Bobby Gillespie. They talk pop, alcoholism and leaving the UK

The Guardian - UK

In ‘Goth: A History,’ The Cure co-founder Lol Tolhurst traces the often-misunderstood subculture

In a new book titled “Goth: A History,” The Cure co-founder Lol Tolhurst traces a misunderstood subculture

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Goth: A History by Lol Tolhurst review – the dark is rising

The former Cure drummer traces the genre from its 18th-century literary roots to its flourishing as a music subculture

The Guardian - UK

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

Louder

Here are the best alt. rock songs you'll hear this week, featuring Ashnikko, Dream Nails, Lynks and more

Here are eight great alternative songs you may have missed this week: vote here for your favourite!

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