The Cure
The 1,001 Greatest Songs of the 20th Century – 580 to 571
kissing and fainting
2019 In Photos: My Best Pictures Of This Year
you feel lucky when there is one that pops up
Grateful: My Best Concerts And Musical Events Of 2019
I saw a few legends
My Interview With The Cure For Creem, December 1981
either-or situation
Pasadena DayDream Festival With The Cure, Saturday August 31st 2019
‘It’s been the best day of the summer’
L.A. Burning West Coast Concert Picks, August 26th To September 1st
This weekend offers two festival, the big Pasadena Daydream Festival and Made in LA 2019
Goldenvoice Puts Arroyo Seco Weekend On Hold For 2019, Announces Pasadena Daydream Festival
Hopefully, Arroyo Seco will be re-launched in 2020
The Cure At Madison Square Garden, Monday, June 20th, 2016, Reviewed
The boulder just rolled down to the bottom again
Live Through This: Top Concert Picks Week Of June 20th, 2016
He rest on his laurels
Streaming, Flaxen, Waxen Hair: The Worst Haircuts In Rock N Roll History
Lather, rinse, repeat
Must See: The Cure At Madison Square Garden, June, 2016
I was gonna pass on this tour as well, and tickets were essentially sold out, when my friend, guitarist JJ McCabe, asked me to check out availability
Oldies But Goldies: In The Wake Of My Zayn Malik Post, Here is Something I Wrote In 1988
Arabs aren’t the only, and not even the biggest, objects of rock racism. In ’76, mindless punks wore swastikas at English concerts (swastikas adorned the label of Vicious’s pathetic Sid Sings). Siouxsie Sioux used to sing “too many Jews for my liking.” By the time punk had passed, an English offspring called “Oi” aligned themselves with the fascist party, the National Front. The NF advocated Pakistani bashing and sending the West Indians back to where they came from
Top 75 of the Nineties
Full disclosure: in the mid-90s I did a tropical Latin music show on WPFW-FM so I wasn’t paying attention in those years to Anglo-American music, and in the late nineties I had a kid and was too exhausted to keep up, but in the mid-00s, I did go back to fill the gaping lacunae. I’m sure I missed some major tunes, so feel free to let me know what they are.
10 Songs: Saturday, June 14th, 2014
Crazy Little Thing called Love (Live At Wembley Stadium) – Queen – We could debate it but this straightforward Presleyish rocker is Freddie’s finest moment, just not this version where the extended end doesn’t work – B
Rhonda's Top 100 Songs Of The 1980s
Ah, the 1980s…foremost was the effect that the economic policies of Margaret Thatcher had on British bands, epitomised most obviously by the Specials’ “Ghost Town” and less obviously by a slew of other songs
Watch the Cure's Entire Austin City Limits Set And More(If Ya Want)
The Cure were one of those bands that were a staple in my teenaged world. Always crushing on frontman Robert Smith (such a sexy beast) while convinced he was gay (not). The songs of lament and angst were delivered in a croaky whine that went straight through the heart.