The Cure: Mixed Up (Deluxe Edition) This deluxe edition is less pickle cake, more delectable treat. Read More
Cured: by Lol Tolhurst A personal tale of how one man happened to navigate life despite his personal demons. Read More
Holy Hell! Wild Mood Swings Turns 20 Wild Mood Swings is much better than you remember and much better than some would have you believe. Read More
List Inconsequential: The Greatest Greatest Hits Collections (Pt. 3) 20. Talking Heads – Sand in the Vaseline: Popular Favorites “This ain’t no Mudd Club/ Or CBGB,” though Sand in the Vaseline is virtually as authentic as any performance Talking Heads ever put on at their old Manhattan haunts. In fact, that lyric is even delivered in a live cut of “Life During Wartime,” one of two live tracks that … Read More
PLAYLIST: The Cure “Fire in Cairo” from Three Imaginary Boys (1979) No, “Fire in Cairo” is not a political song, though its explosive refrain of “F-I-R-E-I-N-C-A-I-R-O” is received like the rallying cry of an enraptured true believer, shouted from the platform of a falling statue. Instead, this track, featured on the Cure’s 1979 debut Three Imaginary Boys and again on the 1980 U.S. … Read More
List Inconsequential: Runt of the Litter: Weak Albums By Strong Artists Sky Blue Sky by Wilco (2007) Drugs help. When Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy went to rehab (no, no, no) in 2004, the band had just come off the masterful one-two punch of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002) and A Ghost Is Born (2004), two of the most experimental, sophisticated albums of the decade. Then after he cleaned up, they produced Sky … Read More