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THE CURE TO TOUR NORTH AMERICA THIS SUMMER
As you may have heard, the Cure are headlining a tour of North America this summer.
Beginning on May 10, at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, this tour, called The Lost World Tour, will find the band visiting a large number of major US and Canadian cities. The Lost World Tour will be the first that the new wave, goth, dark wave, alternative rock, post punk (whatever you'd like to refer to them as) band has performed in North America since 2019. Tickets went on sa
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16th Mar 2023
THE CURE ARE RELEASING A 30TH ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION OF WISH
Wish, The Cure's legendary 1992 album that catapulted the band from new wave/alternative rock legends into pop music superstars, even if only for a moment, is getting re-released as a Deluxe Edition, on October 7, 2022, in honor of the album's 30th anniversary.
Featuring the Top 20 hit, Friday I'm in Love, and
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28th Jul 2022
2019 (ALTERNATIVE) ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTION
Last week, on Friday March 29, 2019, the
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame held their formal induction ceremony, at the Barclays Center in
Brooklyn, New York.
While the inductions included bands and artists that are now
considered staples of classic rock and whom one would generally expect to be in the
Rock Hall, including Stevie Nicks and Def Leppard, and we’re definitely not discounting
these artists, there was a strong inclusion, this year, of bands that have
pioneered the altern
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7th Apr 2019
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Announces 2019 Induction Nominees
It’s that time of year again, folks. The time of year music
experts at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Nominating Committee gather
together to create a list of nominees of some of the most deserving performers
across the music sphere to be enshrined in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame! Ballots
are now in the process of being sent to over 1,000 music historians, scholars,
producers, journalists, and more in order to determine the 2019 class. This
voting body will take into consideration a numbe
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16th Oct 2018
TWO ALTERNATIVE ROCK PIONEERS SHARE A BIRTHDAY - APRIL 21
Ironic as it may be, that the day after 4/20, is the birthday for 2 musical pioneers in the genre of Alternative Rock. Now granted, the term Alternative Rock didn't really exist, as a term, until the late 1980s-early 1990s, with the onset of bands like Jane's Addiction and the Seattle Grunge style groups. However, the term has come to symbolize the entire make up of all the different sub-genres of Punk, Grunge, New Wave, Gothic, etc. So, with that, while each of the musicians who are celebrat
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20th Apr 2014