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1 day ago · Troxy, London, November 1, 2024. It’s been 16 years since The Cure ’s last studio album (2008’s 4:13 Dream), and nearly a year since they played Bogota, Colombia on the last date of their 2023 tour. Tonight, they’re launching their new album Songs Of A Lost World, and – perhaps unsurprisingly, given the excitement surrounding the band ...
3 days ago · Iowa Time Machine ⏰: On October 30, 1930, Grant Wood’s iconic Iowa painting “American Gothic” went on display for the first time. Starting with sketches of a small house in Eldon, the painting featuring either a husband and wife or father and daughter stands out as one of the most important cultural artifacts of Iowa’s past. Born on a ...
2 days ago · I Did Not Know Gary Indiana. Evan Grillon remembers the legendary writer Gary Indiana. LAST FALL, I was rereading Resentment: A Comedy (1997) on the train on the way to a screening of Sweet Smell ...
Oct 18, 2024 · The chorus, “Love don’t stop, it goes on forever,” offers a glimmer of hope, suggesting that love is eternal, and one day, they will be reunited. The song’s ability to capture both the devastation of loss and the perseverance of love makes it a powerful entry as the first song in the “10 Sad Songs That Will Always Make You Cry” list.
1 day ago · Stevie Nicks, who, at 76, has become an obsession of younger generations, from her American Horror Story appearance to the original poem she wrote for Taylor Swift’s Tortured Poets Department to a recent viral TikTok video, where she intensely stares down her ex-boyfriend and bandmate Lindsey Buckingham during a 1997 performance of ‘Silver Springs’. (Yes, Nicks has seen it.)
3 days ago · Edgar Allan Poe - Gothic, Horror, Poetry: Poe’s work owes much to the concern of Romanticism with the occult and the satanic. It owes much also to his own feverish dreams, to which he applied a rare faculty of shaping plausible fabrics out of impalpable materials. With an air of objectivity and spontaneity, his productions are closely dependent on his own powers of imagination and an ...
1 day ago · The immense sound of Lost World is driven by Jason Cooper’s thunderous drum patterns underpinned by Simon Gallops’s gnarly bass. Going against the modern streaming trend for sound separation and simplicity, every sonic space is unfashionably filled with waves of thick synths crashing against piano motifs whilst Gabrels’ and Smith’s guitars echo and clang in an angst-filled wall of sound.
