Features
Friday, December 24 2010
The Best 20 Re-Issues of 2010
The year's best re-issues are highlighted by a trio of rock gods in the Stones, Lennon and Bowie as well as a bona fide American jazz genius and a bevy seminal '70s and '80s British bands.
Saturday, December 23 2006
Best Reissues of 2006
At long last, the annual rite of passage, the "best of" list... Here's PopMatters picks for the best 20 reissues of 2006. Stay tuned tomorrow and Thursday for ongoing genre top 10s with our coverage culminating in the year's best musical events on Friday.
Reviews
Tuesday, January 31 2012
The Cure: Bestival Live 2011
Despite the travesty of relabeling their 1978 song "Killing an Arab" as "Killing Another", this is a taut, tight and energetic double live set for fans who want to hear all the Cure’s major hits in one place.
Tuesday, October 28 2008
The Cure: 4:13 Dream
The danger of so openly courting nostalgia like this is that a new entry into old canon is simply never going to live up to the standard that those who've come to live with said canon have built for it.
Wednesday, January 2 2008
The Cure [2007 Rewind]
PopMatters' Nick Gunn joins a mere 150 others for a semi-secret set that sees the Cure stretch their soundcheck into an intimate, hour-long experience.
Wednesday, September 5 2007
The Cure
PopMatters' Nick Gunn joins a mere 150 others for a semi-secret set that sees the Cure stretch their soundcheck into an intimate, hour-long experience.
Tuesday, January 16 2007
The Cure: Festival 2005 [DVD]
There are plenty of reasons to like this new live DVD from the goth stalwarts, but none of them have anything to do with the visual presentation.
Blogs
Tuesday, December 13 2011
Snubbed!: Why the Cure Deserves to Be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Guns N' Roses, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and the Beastie Boys were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame just last week--but not fellow ballot finalist the Cure. Here's why goth's flagship group deserved to join them.
Friday, June 4 2010
Masters of the Form: The Cure, 1989 - Disintegration
By 1989, Robert Smith had grown a bit weary of his new found pop stardom and was determined to swim out of the mainstream back into what he thought were the deeper waters of the band's earlier work.
Tuesday, May 18 2010
Walked in Line: The Musical Disciples of Joy Division
If any band is heir to the musical path Joy Division laid out, it would be the Cure, quite possibly the second-most influential band of the post-punk era.
Tuesday, May 11 2010
Masters of the Form: The Cure, 1987 - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
Some artists are more than merely great. There are some artists that for a period of years, a period that is finite, consistently produced music that, it can be argued, far exceeded the work of their peers. For that brief period of time they were definitely Masters of the Form.
Friday, April 23 2010
Masters of the Form: The Cure, 1985 - The Head on the Door
Some artists are more than merely great. There are some artists that for a period of years, a period that is finite, consistently produced music that, it can be argued, far exceeded the work of their peers. For that brief period of time they were definitely Masters of the Form.
