How Robert Smith of the Cure Became Rock’s Most Dogged Activist
With his band’s first new album in 16 years out Friday, post-punk’s dark prince discusses enduring on his own terms and ...
The Cure singer and emo icon Robert Smith says he struggles to write songs about death now that he's older
Robert Smith's macabre sensibilities helped launch the Cure to massive success — but nowadays the musician is finding it ...
The Cure Deliver the Power-Doom Epic We’ve Been Waiting For
Songs of a Lost World is the triumphant power-doom epic it needed to be, fully the Cure’s best since Disintegration, as Smith ...
Robert Smith of The Cure: ‘I still feel like that 10-year-old kid staring at the moon’
The Cure’s power comes from the singer’s two sides – he’s ‘part of the world but also not part of it’. That’s still evident ...
The Cure's Robert Smith: 'Singing new album live helps me grieve'
The goth icons played two sets at the BBC in support of their new record, Songs Of A Lost World.
Contactmusic.com6d
Robert Smith finds it 'much harder' to write songs he wants to sing
Robert Smith finds it "much harder" to write songs he "wants to sing" these days. The 65-year-old singer's band The Cure have just released 'Songs of a Lost World', their first album in 18 years ...
LouderSound on MSN8d
Robert Smith charts his own grief and anxiety on The Cure's sombre Songs Of A Lost World
"Backcombed head and sloped shoulders above the dreck of indie/goth rock revivalists": Robert Smith charts his own grief and ...
The Independent8d
False starts and false promises: The turbulent journey to The Cure’s first album in 16 years
In 2008, Robert Smith told Mark Beaumont fans had only six months to wait for the band’s 14th album – 16 years later, the seminal alt-rock band have finally followed through on their promise ...
Music Review: The Cure return after a long break to look at mortality with one of their best albums
You might think that after being silent for 16 years, The Cure would be in a rush to get things going. Think again.
brooklynvegan10d
Review: The Cure's 'Songs of a Lost World' is a doomy, gloomy near-perfect return to form
How perfect does Robert Smith’s voice still sound? Most of his ’80s contemporaries’ pipes are shadows of what they once were, but on The Cure’s Songs of a Lost World, this is the voice you ...
AOL5d
The Cure's Robert Smith: 'Singing new album live helps me grieve'
The Cure frontman Robert Smith says performing songs from the band's newly-released album, Songs Of A Lost World, helped him deal with the grief of losing close family members in recent years.