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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 Simon Gallup has been gigging with 2 gnarly new-look bass guitars – and now Schecter has released them as his latest signature models

A cosmetically updated Ultra Spitfire and a new semi-hollow stunner dubbed the Corsair have been unveiled

Guitar World

I saw The Cure with my parents

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

Salon

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Olivia Rodrigo sits at the piano to deliver a stripped-back version of Vampire, and says that her dad is introducing her to Depeche Mode and The Cure

“He’s introducing me to all the bands he went to see when he was my age,” she explains

MusicRadar

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

Foo Fighters, The Cure among Riot Fest 2023 lineup at Douglass Park festival

Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Tuesday for the festival running Sept. 15–17 in Chicago.

Chicago Sun-Times

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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

The Cure frontman Robert Smith shares anti-monarchy cartoon: ‘Let them eat coronation quiche’

Singer is an outspoken critic of the British royal family

The Independent UK

‘Let them eat coronation quiche’: The Cure frontman Robert Smith shares anti-monarchy cartoon

Singer is an outspoken critic of the British royal family

The Independent UK

"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

The Independent UK

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

Louder

"It's over... tours are no longer fun" says Neil Young, as he lays into Ticketmaster on behalf of "ripped off fans"

"The old days are gone" writes Neil Young in criticism of ticketing giant

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Neil Young lays into Ticketmaster and questions the future of touring: "It’s over. The old days are gone"

"Artists have to worry about ripped off fans blaming them for Ticketmaster add-ons and scalpers"

Metal Hammer

Holy Fawn: meet the heaviest non-metal band you'll hear this year

Post-metal, shoegaze, goth: genre-blurring mavericks Holy Fawn are happy to defy all classifications in their quest for heaviness

Fortune

Ticketmaster is hiring a director of social media and says the ideal candidate will have to be ‘brave'

Ticketmaster will pay a six-figure salary to its new Director of Social -but the right candidate will have to be "brave".

Evening Standard

Ticketmaster offers partial refunds to The Cure fans over fees controversy

Ticketmaster has offered a partial refund to fans of The Cure after a controversy over high booking fees for the band’s upcoming US tour.

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Robert Smith of The Cure convinces Ticketmaster to give partial refunds, lower fees

The announcement came a day after Smith shared his frustrations with Ticketmaster, saying he was "sickened" by the company's fees. Fans who bought Cure tickets will get a $5-$10 refund.

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’

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