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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 …

                                                 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …