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The 20 best songs of 2024, ranked

THE COUNTDOWN: From Charli XCX’s neon-splattered club remix with Lorde to The Cure’s moment of bleary-eyed brilliance 16 years in the making, here are the songs that defined 2024, chosen by Annabel Nugent, Roisin O’Connor, Louis Chilton and Adam White

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“No stone goes unturned”: The Cure celebrate their new album, a goth classic and everything else that makes them great at spotless London show

At the intimate Troxy venue, The Cure celebrate the newly released Songs Of A Lost World and so much more, offering three hours of surprises, singalongs and pure emotion

Louder

Robert Smith finds it 'much harder' to write songs he wants to sing

The Cure frontman Robert Smith finds it "much harder" to write songs he "wants to sing" these days.

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The Cure’s nine essential songs, from ‘Push’ to ‘Disintegration’

THE COUNTDOWN: As the rock pioneers release their first album in 16 years, Mark Beaumont forgoes all singles and picks the best songs spanning a four-decade career

The Independent UK

The Cure’s first album in 16 years is gothic, gorgeous proof that no one does misery better

5/5 All these years later, rock’s foremost goth can still tap into teenage intensity on ‘Songs of a Lost World’

The Independent UK

"Backcombed head and sloped shoulders above the dreck of indie/goth rock revivalists": Robert Smith charts his own grief and anxiety on The Cure's sombre Songs Of A Lost World

Louder

ABBA, Radiohead and The Cure musicians sign AI protest letter against 'unlicensed use' of works

Musicians from ABBA, Radiohead and The Cure have joined actors and authors in signing a protest letter against the mining of their artistry to build artificial intelligence tools

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“This is a chance to own a piece of history!” Fancy owning a window pane from Iron Maiden's Ed Force One plane? Check out the Heavy Metal Truants' latest charity auction, but be quick, as it closes before midnight

Get your bids in NOW for a chance to own ultra-rare collector's items from Iron Maiden, AC/DC, The Cure, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath and more - and help support four amazing charities - in the Heavy Metal Truants' Monster Rock Auction, closing tonight, October 16

Metal Hammer

“Each instrument comes with a custom hardshell case, a signed COA from Robert Smith and directly supports life-saving cancer research”: Schecter and the Cure’s Robert Smith join forces for charity with the release of the Shellflower UltraCure

This limited edition run comprises an UltraCure electric guitar and its 30" scale six-string bass sibling, and $500 from the sale of each instrument goes to the World Cancer Research Fund

MusicRadar

The Cure’s Robert Smith blasts artists who blame ticketing sites for inflated prices weeks after Oasis fiasco

Oasis recently came under fire after fans reported sky-high ticket prices due to Ticketmaster’s ‘dynamic pricing’ system

The Independent UK

The Cure release plaintive new single A Fragile Thing, announce tracklist for Songs Of A Lost World album

Songs Of A Lost World will be the first album from The Cure since 2008's 4:13 Dream

Louder

Yungblud wants Bludfest to travel the world as 'two day event'

'Obey' rocker Yungblud is keen to turn his Bludfest into a "two-day event" which he can take around the world.

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“It’s not often we perform such intimate shows, so we’re really looking forward to this.” The Cure are recording an exclusive gig in London this month, and you could be there to see it

Find out how to get tickets to see The Cure live at special Radio 2 In Concert show

Louder

“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

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The Cure drop first single in 16 years

Frontman Robert Smith says the new single, "Alone," is "the track that unlocked the record"

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The Cure Releases First New Song In 16 Years

The Cure delights fans with new song 'Alone' after 16 years, announces upcoming album 'Songs of A Lost World'. Exciting news in the music scene with band r...

The Independent UK

The Cure announce new album and release their first new song in 16 years

English rock band will release ‘Songs of a Lost World’ in November

Louder

“It’s the track that unlocked the record.” The Cure introduce their long-awaited new album Songs Of A Lost World with gorgeous, haunting new single Alone

Listen to Alone, the first single from the first album by The Cure in 16 years

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Evening Standard

The Cure announce first new music in 16 years

The Just Like Heaven hit-makers teased a short clip of new single titled Alone on social media with an album to follow

Louder

“I had become Musical Director, which I always hate. But I took the money and took the title and did the job!”: The Cure’s Reeves Gabrels on the time he became David Bowie’s touring MD

Bowie needed someone to be his first lieutenant in the 90s, and his ex-Tin Machine bandmate was the person he turned to

Louder

The Cure tease the release of Songs of a Lost World, their first album in 16 years, with a poster outside the English bar where they played their very first gig

It appears that The Cure's long-awaited Songs of a Lost World album will finally emerge on November 1

Louder

The 10 best cover versions by Smashing Pumpkins

Billy Corgan and crew's renditions of hits by U2, Hole, Fleetwood Mac, Depeche Mode, The Cure and, umm, Natalie Imbruglia

The Independent UK

The Cure keyboardist Roger O’Donnell reveals ‘aggressive’ blood cancer diagnosis

Musician said he ‘ignored the symptoms’ for several months before he underwent 11 months of treatment

MusicRadar

"I think the whole thing was turned around in two days": The two-man Cure lineup that recorded one of the greatest film soundtrack songs of all time for The Crow

30 years on, it remains an undeniably potent piece of Cure history

Louder

“We were playing to people who didn't care if we fell over and died.” The Cure might be recognised now as one of the world's most iconic and influential bands, but that wasn't always the case

The path to rock superstardom can be long and winding

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