Mercury News, California — Follow Jim Harrington as he covers BottleRock Napa Valley 2014. Headliners for the music festival include Outkast, Eric Church and The Cure more info

Mercury News, California — Outkast, Eric Church, The Cure are the headliners for the 2014 BottleRock Napa Valley festival more info

MTV.co.uk News — It's world goth day and we're embracing the darkness with open arms. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — The initial lineup for Riot Fest Toronto was recently announced, and since then the Riot Fest Chicago (Sept. 12-14) and Riot Fest Denver (Sept. 19-21) lineups were announced as well. Chicago has The Cure, Jane's Addiction, The National, Weezer,... more info

ContactMusic — A South Korean music festival featuring The Cure, Nine Inch Nails and Stereophonics has been cancelled in the aftermath of the country's tragic Sewol... more info

Pop Candy — From Tears for Fears to The Cure to Adam Ant, readers choose their top '80s tracks. more info

Stereogum — When a company can’t get the rights to a song that they want to use for a commercial, the go-to move nowadays seems to be to just hire someone to compose a nearly identical version of it. It’s happened to a countless number of bands: Beach House,... more info

ContactMusic — The Cure's Robert Smith is ''f***ing angry'' the band's label wouldn't let them release a double album. The 'Friday I'm In Love' hitmakers are set to... more info

Stereogum — Next week Slasher Flicks — the cosmic power trio comprised of Animal Collective’s Avey Tare, Angel Deradoorian (formerly of Dirty Projectors), and Jeremy Hyman (formerly of Ponytail) — will release their first proper full-length album, Enter Th... more info

Stereogum — Last week, the Cure played a few London shows to benefit the Teenage Cancer Trust, and those shows were vast in scope — too vast for at least one critic. Writing in The Guardian, Caroline writes that the 45 songs that the band played were simply to... more info