November 1, 2024 • NPR Music's Ann Powers and Daoud Tyler-Ameen are your guides to the most compelling new releases of the week, including the first album in 16 years by The Cure and a surprise ...

Robert Smith has been the only consistent member of the Cure since the band formed in 1978, and he’s an icon in his own right. Smith’s massively teased out black hair and red lips, and the ...

The proximity of these pits to the sea teaches us that they probably used salt from the sea, or the seawater itself to cure the olives “We each worked on a different aspect,” Dr. Daphna Langgut of Tel ...

Researchers remain hopeful that they're heading in the right direction to finding a cure for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Right now, it’s still out of reach. But the unusual cases of four ...

The words “long awaited” don’t begin to do justice to the new Cure album. Songs of a Lost World is an album that’s been promised, rumored, dangled, teased, longed for, despaired of, imagined.

Not many bands can claim to be single-handedly responsible for an entire genre and musical movement, but The Cure can. The post-punk found on their 1979 debut album, Three Imaginary Boys ...

This morning will be cloudy with a mix of light rain, sleet and hill snow, with a small chance of snow to lower levels. Dry in the afternoon with mostly cloudy skies and the odd brighter spell ...

The long path to the Cure's 14th album, and the first in 16 years since the release of 4:13 Dream, has been marked by occasional live performances, a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction and ...

The Cure celebrated the arrival of their long-awaited and much-acclaimed new album Songs of a Lost World on Friday with a release-night, livestreamed London concert. The three-hour concert ...

If I told you 40 years ago, when the Cure was in the midst of its new-wave wonder moment, that the band would craft an inventively elegiac epic like “Songs for a Lost World” — a singular ...