Number 12 on Crystal Castles’s second studio album titled Crystal Castles II (which was out in May 2010) is a cover of “Not in Love” by the 1980s new wave band Platinum Blonde. Ethan Kath sings the song on the album but the band have just released a reworking of the tune featuring Robert Smith, whom you might know from a little band called The Cure.
The band will be officially releasing the new single on December 6th along with acoustic demos of “Celestica” and “Suffocation” (also from Crystal Castles II) as b-sides.
MP3: Crystal Castles – “Not In Love” (ft Robert Smith)
Yikes! Yesterday’s Times quote is as follows: *The Radiohead experiment of paying what you want: I disagreed violently with that. You can’t allow other people to put a price on what you do, otherwise you don’t consider what you do to have any value at all, and that’s nonsense. If I put a value on my music and no one’s prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan, it can’t work.*
Read the full piece here.
Last night, The Cure performed on Jonathan Ross.
MP3: The Cure – Shake Dog Shake
He shares the following words with Billboard on The Cure’s upcoming thirteenth record:
“Rather than cut it down, at the stage we’re at with the band, I’m making this record because I want to enjoy the process and be proud of the finished result… It isn’t a commercial concern for me. What will probably happen is that a double album will come out like a limited edition, mixed by me… A single-disc version, which I assume will be primarily chosen by the label, might get mixed by someone else in order to have a different thing. There’s a concern Cure fans will feel like they have to get both, but the fact is, I’ve agreed to sell the double version at a single album price, because I feel that strongly about it. It is almost impossible to get a double album nowadays. I naively thought my standing as an artist would push aside all objections, but the world gets ever more commercial as it turns.”
“There are songs about relationships, the material world, politics and religion. They’re very upfront and dynamic… People will be surprised how stripped-down and in-your-face the record is.”
Regarding The Cure’s upcoming tour (all dates here): “A lot of people who come want to hear something they haven’t heard before, but they also want to hear old songs. I enjoy playing them. But the idea of going out and doing a two-and-a-half hour show and including 10/12 new songs would actually be really awful, I think. A show is an experience. Anyone coming to a Cure show isn’t going to go home and think about buying the album. They’ve already made their minds up by the fact they’ve bought a ticket to see us.”
MP3: The Cure – Snow In Summer (via Minor Crisis)
After the parade of Robert Smith collaborations of late, in particular, the legend teaming up with Limp Bizkit’s production partner, Blink 182, Korn and most recently the rumor that Robert & Ashlee Simpson have a duet on the way, Filter magazine figured it was high time to publish an open letter to The Cure genius.
Here’s some snippets:
“…The first sign that things were afoot came in 2004 when Ross Robinson produced The Cure’s self-titled album. We were shocked and appalled. This was the guy responsible for hoisting Korn, Limp Bizkit and Slipknot upon the world, surely he had no place behind the desk of a Cure album. However once we’d heard the result we settled down a bit…
Then you sang on a Blink-182 song, quickly followed by vocal appearances on tracks by Junior Jack, Tweaker and JunkieXL, all within the space of a year. But still your collaboration needs had not been satiated, so you sang a Bee Gees cover on Billy Corgan’s album. Okay, we thought, surely this is the end of the line. Then late last year you sang with Korn at their MTV Unplugged on a god awful cover of The Cure classic “Inbetween Days.” At this point we had to draw the line….”
Read the entire letter here.
MP3: The Cure – M
After the parade of Robert Smith collaborations of late, in particular, the legend teaming up with Limp Bizkit’s production partner, Blink 182, Korn and most recently the rumor that Robert & Ashlee Simpson have a duet on the way, Filter magazine figured it was high time to publish an open letter to The Cure genius.
Here’s some snippets:
“…The first sign that things were afoot came in 2004 when Ross Robinson produced The Cure’s self-titled album. We were shocked and appalled. This was the guy responsible for hoisting Korn, Limp Bizkit and Slipknot upon the world, surely he had no place behind the desk of a Cure album. However once we’d heard the result we settled down a bit…
Then you sang on a Blink-182 song, quickly followed by vocal appearances on tracks by Junior Jack, Tweaker and JunkieXL, all within the space of a year. But still your collaboration needs had not been satiated, so you sang a Bee Gees cover on Billy Corgan’s album. Okay, we thought, surely this is the end of the line. Then late last year you sang with Korn at their MTV Unplugged on a god awful cover of The Cure classic “Inbetween Days.” At this point we had to draw the line….”
Read the entire letter here.
MP3: The Cure – M
After the parade of Robert Smith collaborations of late, in particular, the legend teaming up with Limp Bizkit’s production partner, Blink 182, Korn and most recently the rumor that Robert & Ashlee Simpson have a duet on the way, Filter magazine figured it was high time to publish an open letter to The Cure genius.
Here’s some snippets:
“…The first sign that things were afoot came in 2004 when Ross Robinson produced The Cure’s self-titled album. We were shocked and appalled. This was the guy responsible for hoisting Korn, Limp Bizkit and Slipknot upon the world, surely he had no place behind the desk of a Cure album. However once we’d heard the result we settled down a bit…
Then you sang on a Blink-182 song, quickly followed by vocal appearances on tracks by Junior Jack, Tweaker and JunkieXL, all within the space of a year. But still your collaboration needs had not been satiated, so you sang a Bee Gees cover on Billy Corgan’s album. Okay, we thought, surely this is the end of the line. Then late last year you sang with Korn at their MTV Unplugged on a god awful cover of The Cure classic “Inbetween Days.” At this point we had to draw the line….”
Read the entire letter here.
MP3: The Cure – M
Oh lord, let’s hope this rumor turns out to be false!
EW is reporting that Ashlee Simpson’s new album (just writing that alone made me simultaneously lose cred and cringe a little bit) will feature Kenna, Chad Hugo and quite possibly… Robert Smith of The Cure. Believe it.
Here’s more on the potential collaboration: Ashlee’s also reportedly collaborating with Robert Smith. Yes, as in the legendary frontman of Alternative Nation icons the Cure. Could their mutual buddy, Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz, be the connection? When asked by our west-coast counterpart Shirley Halperin, Wentz demurred. ”I doubt I had anything to do with it, ’cause they were friends since she was performing in Chicago [in London last year]. But I definitely only have good things to say about Ash — I think the collaboration could be great!” Indeed; whatever these two Lovecats come up with, it’s bound to be interesting!
Yeah, interesting… that’s the word. Read the entire article here.
MP3: The Cure – The Exploding Boy
