The Latest Breaking News from Robert Smith

Robert Smith will not stream music "on principle" and listens to records on "loads and loads" of iPods instead.

The Cure frontman was the subject of a viral exchange with an enthusiastic reporter on the red carpet at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony

And there’s a third in the works too

Robert Smith has confirmed that The Cure have finished work on a "companion piece" to their latest album 'Songs of a Lost World' and also have a separate album in prospect.

Smith only carried on fronting the band because he’d fallen out with everyone who filled the role

Here are the year’s most outstanding tracks – from Fontaines DC to Beyoncé via Kendrick Lamar – as voted for by 26 Guardian music writers

The Cure's royalties from sales of Songs Of A Live World Troxy London MMXXlV will be donated to War Child

“Women presume we can have children. There is a biological and social expectation. Nothing can make that absence worse. But we have the possibility of making it better.” New to Netflix, Joy follows the British scientists who invented in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) – Bob Edwards (James Norton), Jean Purdy (Thomasin McKenzie)…

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.