Photos from The Cure’s marathon show in Toronto
[Ross MacDonald was there for all two hours and forty minutes. – AC] The Cure started off their concert at Budweiser Stage in an unconventional way. Instead of exploding out of the dark
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Random music news for Tuesday, June 13, 2023
You will click on this headline because you’re powerless not to: The World’s Most Expensive Potato Chips and What They’re Made Of. Meanwhile, music news for June 13, 2023, is free. More music
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Random music news for Thursday, May 18, 2023
More music news? Check here. BONUS: Strippers Union used to be just a Tragically Hip spin-off band. Now there’s an actual stripper’s union.
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Ongoing History Daily: Fake band names
Sometimes when a band has a new album, they’ll arrange to play a secret gig to road test the new material. They’ll arrange a show under a fake name and then watch to
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Ongoing History Daily: The litigious states of America
Being in a band can be a lot more complicated than you might realize. One thing all successful groups have is a good lawyer to get them out of jams. Take the Cure,
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Ongoing History Daily: Weird fan violence
Here’s a disturbing story about fan violence. Jon Moreland was a 38-year-old mixed-up guy from the Los Angeles who went berserk at a Cure concert at the LA Forum on July 27, 1986.
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Random music news for Tuesday, September 8, 2020
Klingon wine? Absolutely! Post Malone rose? Why not? And now, let’s get back to reality with what’s going on in music news for September 8, 2020. Coronavirus update 1: Bruce Williamson, a former
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Random music news for Friday, February 14, 2020
In case you missed it, the corona virus now has an official name: Covid-19. While you ponder that, here’s music news for February 14, 2020. Speaking of which, the world’s largest mobile phone
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The Ongoing History of New Music, Episode 818: The 90s, Part 7: The genres beyond grunge and punk
One of the great things about the alt-rock revolution of the 1990s was its seemingly endless diversity. The sounds from this part of the rock universe had always been varied because the idea
Read MoreFun: Watch the Cure’s first-ever TV appearance from 1979
The Cure has been around in one form or another since 1976. Stephen dug out this video of the band’s first-ever TV appearance, which took place in December 1979.
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Random Music News for Wednesday, January 17, 2018
It was 20 years ago today that the story about Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky broke. Remember how big a deal that seemed at the time? No one thought the Oval Office could
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