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Last year, Gorillaz followed up their 2020 project The Now Now with a collection of singles. The songs featured artists like The Cure's Robert Smith, Elton John, Beck, ScHoolboy Q, and slowthai, and eventually were compiled in one full-length project called Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez.

“Screen Violence,” by CHVRCHES (EMI/Glassnote Records)The fourth studio album from Scottish synth-pop group CHVRCHES was already sounding great before they did something to push it into the realm of the spectacular.They reached out to The Cure frontman Robert Smith, whose dark sound has been a touchstone to the younger band.

Facebook. “Good luck to them all …”When asked if he is OK, Gallup commented that he is, but “just got fed up of betrayal.” The 61-year-old rocker did not elaborate further on what that “betrayal” was.Gallup joined The Cure in 1979 and was the longest-serving member outside of lead singer and guitarist Robert Smith.

The Cure is minus its bass player.

The Cure is losing a member.

Ethan Shanfeld The Cure bassist Simon Gallup announced on Saturday that he is leaving the band.“With a slightly heavy heart I am no longer a member of the Cure! Good luck to them all,” Gallup wrote on Facebook.

The Cure bassist Simon Gallup says he’s left the band “with a slightly heavy heart,” writing that he’s “fed up of betrayal.”Gallup joined the band in 1979 following a stint playing in Robert Smith‘s side-project Cult Hero. After leaving the band in 1982, he rejoined in 1984, and is The Cure’s second longest-serving member behind Smith.“With a slightly heavy heart I am no longer a member of the Cure!” Gallup wrote in a public post on his personal Facebook account last night (August 14).

Gorillaz debuted three new collaborative tracks and brought out a slew of guest artists.The show was a free event for NHS workers and their families by way of a thank you for their efforts throughout the coronavirus pandemic, coming ahead of a sold-out performance that was announced last year.Early on in the night, The Cure‘s Robert Smith came on stage to perform ‘Strange Timez’, the lead track from their seventh studio album ‘Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez’, released last year.Watch

Chvrches have shared a new single called ‘Good Girls’ and with it details of a UK tour for next March.The Scottish trio, fronted by Lauren Mayberry, premiered the song as Hottest Record on Annie Mac’s BBC Radio 1 show today (July 12).

CHVRCHES will drop new album Screen Violence August 27. It's the Scottish trio's fourth album to date and so far we have heard the singles "He Said She Said" and "How Not To Drown." The latter features vocals from the one and only Robert Smith of The Cure.

The Cure frontman Robert Smith has delivered a new remix of his recently-released collaboration with Chvrches, ‘How Not To Drown’.The sprawling remix, which reaches over seven minutes in length, strips back most of the original’s explosive production making way for a more ominous feel.‘How Not To Drown’ is the second single we’ve heard from Chvrches’ imminent fourth album, ‘Screen Violence’, due out in August 27.Listen to Smith’s remix of the song below:In a statement posted to social media at

The Cure‘s Robert Smith has said he thinks the band’s next album will be the last one they do.Earlier this month, Smith teamed up with Chvrches on a new single called ‘How Not To Drown’, the second preview from the Scottish trio’s upcoming fourth album, ‘Screen Violence’.Speaking in a new interview alongside Chvrches lead singer Lauren Mayberry, Smith shared a few more details about the long-awaited new album from The Cure.“The new Cure stuff is very emotional,” Smith told The Sunday Times.

Chvrches have spoken about their new single collaboration with The Cure‘s Robert Smith, revealing that he was always their top choice among musicians alive or dead.The band, who are this week’s NME cover stars, said that the slim chance their hero would agree to sing on one of their songs was a pinch-me moment in their decade-long career.Singer Lauren Mayberry recalled to NME that she and bandmate Martin Doherty got drunk on wine one Halloween and received an email from Smith containing his

Robert Smith has been working on an album of “just noise”. Although, you may be pleased to learn, that won’t be one of the two albums The Cure are planning to release in the near future.

Chvrches’ Lauren Mayberry and Martin Doherty have reflected on their latest release ‘How Not To Drown’, featuring The Cure’s Robert Smith, explaining what the milestone collaboration means for them.On social media, Doherty said the song’s release marked the “proudest moment of [his] life in music”, having worked with his musical idol, Smith.“I don’t remember where I was, but I remember how I felt.

The Cure frontman Robert Smith has further alluded to the release of a noise album in a new interview with Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe.Smith featured in the interview alongside CHVRCHES, having just teamed up to release the single ‘How Not To Drown’, ahead of the band’s new album ‘Screen Violence’.

Chvrches have shared details of their new album ‘Screen Violence’ and released their song collaboration with The Cure‘s Robert Smith, ‘How Not To Drown’.The Scottish trio’s fourth record arrives on August 27 via Emi (UK)/Glassnote (US) and is their first since 2018’s ‘Love Is Dead‘.

Chvrches have teased the release of their forthcoming track ‘How Not To Drown’, appearing to feature The Cure frontman Robert Smith.Yesterday (May 30), the band posted a cryptic teaser on Twitter that, on first glance, is just various lines of randomised letters.However, with the help of the teaser’s caption “BGU=CHV”, fans could crack the code by translating each letter into the letter that follows it in the alphabet.

The Cure’s Robert Smith is selling a piece of special artwork for the Heart Research UK charity.The piece of artwork, entitled ‘I WILL KISS YOU FOREVER…’, was originally created last year for the charity’s annual anonymous heART project, which invites a number of artists and celebrities to create original art on an A5 postcard anonymously, with buyers only discovering the identity of the creator upon purchasing.Now, Smith’s artwork created for the project, which sold for over £5,000 at the

coronavirus pandemic thanks to Stagehand‘s #ILoveLive prize draw.The #ILoveLive memorabilia prize draw launched last month, aiming to support the unsung heroes of the live music industry.

Robert Smith has taken part in a 24-hour charity livestream, recording new versions of three songs from The Cure’s 1981 album ‘Faith’.The online event raised many for Poverty Alleviation Charities’ Letters To Santa initiative, which fulfils the wishlists of families in need with food, clothes, computers and $10,000 (£7,414).During the livestream, which was broadcast yesterday (December 22), Smith performed new versions of ‘The Holy Hour’, ‘The Funeral Party’ and ‘The Drowning Man’.“Hello, this

The Cure‘s Robert Smith took part in a charity livestream yesterday – watch his performance below.Hosted by Robin Ince, the Nine Lessons And Carols For Curious People 24-hour charity livestream event saw Smith perform the songs ‘In Your House’, ‘M’ and ‘Play For Today’, taken from the band’s second album, 1980’s ‘Seventeen Seconds’.The event was broadcast by the Cosmic Shambles Network and all proceeds will be donated to the charities Turn2Us, Doctors Without Borders, Mind and the Kings Place

Deftones have shared a new Mike Shinoda remix of ‘Passenger’ – listen below.The track is lifted from the band’s upcoming remix album ‘Black Stallion’, which comes as part of their highly-anticipated ‘White Pony’ 20th anniversary reissue, reworking tracks from the classic album.Set for release on December 11, ‘Black Stallion’ will feature remixes of ‘White Pony’ tracks by the likes of The Cure‘s Robert Smith, Clams Casino, Squarepusher and more.

The Cure‘s Robert Smith has revealed that he has spent much of 2020 “finishing off” a new album from the band as well as a solo record.Having revealed to NME earlier this year that the band had been hard at work on “two new albums and an hour of noise“, now Smith has said that a year trapped inside due to COVID restrictions has made him very productive. The frontman was speaking on BBC 6 Music today (Wednesday September 9) to introduce his new collaboration with Gorillaz, which he said Damon

Gorillaz have taken to social media to tease their upcoming single featuring The Cure‘s Robert Smith.It will be the latest instalment of their ‘Song Machine’ series and follows the release of ‘PAC-MAN’, which features  ScHoolboy Q and was co-produced by Remi Kabaka Jr and Paul Edward Huston, aka Prince Paul.The upcoming collaboration was teased today (September 7) in a tweet reading: “Coming up on Song Machine… It’s @RobertSmith.

The Cure‘s Roger O’Donnell has spoken about the band’s long-awaited new album, saying that it’s “going to be an amazing record”.Last summer, the band’s frontman Robert Smith told NME that they were looking to finish their “merciless” new album in 2019 – 11 years after its predecessor, ‘4:13 Dream’ — adding that it had the working title of ‘Live From The Moon’ and that it was one of three new Cure albums in the works.Talking to Classic Pop magazine in a new interview, O’Donnell has now shared

Bolton. Shakeel Jones, 19, was spotted by police driving a black Seat car that he had recently bought along Brownlow Way, in Halliwell, on the morning of February 12.Checks by police also showed Jones, of Torrington Avenue, Bolton, to be uninsured and without a full driving licence.

Sounds like 'Live From The Moon' could be coming soon...

He's said it before, but this time he really means it: a new Cure album is coming out this year. On the red carpet at Wednesday night's (Feb. 12) 2020 NME Awards, the long-running goth pop icon's leader, Robert Smith, confirmed that the long-awaited follow-up to 2008's 4:13 Dream album is practically done.  “The first one will d

Finally!

Robert Smith also thanks the band's fans for coming to see them over the last year