World Cafe rebroadcasts

Geffen has updated the official site with news of rebroadcasts of the World Cafe show on Jan. 31st and Feb. 2nd.

Update: The dates have been changed to Feb. 14th and 16th.

30th Anniversary fan tribute book

"Since I will be heading over to London for the O2 show, I wanted to do a thank you book for the Cure for their 30th Anniversary and I am inviting Cure fans worldwide to contribute pages. If you could let your readers know about the project I would be very grateful! Here are the details." (Thanks Heron)

Roger update

Busy time for Roger and Erin, as the release of Roger's new album, "Songs From the Silver Box", nears release on Jan. 20th. There's a free download of "Tiny Pieces of You", a video for that song, and you can pre-order the album at Amazon or Insound.

Cure take 1st place in Latvia

"The Cure "The Only One” takes first place in Latvian alternative radio station Radio Naba Top 100 of the Year! "Sleep When I'm Dead" takes 6th place in the same poll." (Thanks Guntars)

Vote for The Cure in Triple J's Hottest 100

"Voting is now on in Triple J's Hottest 100. The list of the top 100 songs of 2008. Freakshow and The Only One have both made the standard list, but we can also add The Perfect Boy and Sleep When I'm Dead manually. Let's get voting!!!!" (Thanks Jo)

Updated version of Never Enough in April

"I was poking around on the official site of Jeff Apter (author of the Cure bio "Never Enough") and I saw that a revised version of the book will be out in April. If you go to jeffapter.com.au and check the "current releases" sidebar on the right hand side, you'll see a mention of what I'm talking about. No details about new content are given, but I looked it up on Amazon and it will have 352 pages versus the original 338." (Thanks Natalie)

Looks like it will be an updated version in paperback and is scheduled for release in April.

Curespotting

"Last night I was watching the Utah Jazz tromp all over Chris Paul and New Orleans (sorry Craig). They were honoring Utah Announcer Hot Rod Hundley for announcing his 3,000th game and the background music during the presentation…All I Want by The Cure! Very surprising." (Thanks Sam)

"A silly, but funny, Curespotting." (Thanks Kate)

COF for iPhone

Xuan has created a free COF app for iPhone: "I wrote a small IPhone app for my personal use which updates my IPhone with the latest COF feed. I find the app useful when I'm traveling and need to get my COF fix on the go." (Thanks Xuan)
Note: If the link doesn't work, just search for Chain of Flowers in the App store.

All kinds of stuff

You can vote for 4:13 Dream in the Best Album Artwork for the NME Shockwave awards. Click here to give it an automatic 10. (Thanks Anthony)

Anthony has created some new Cure fonts. (Thanks Anthony)

The Denver Post has posted some Images That Will Reverb From 2008, and RS at Red Rocks is one of them. (Thanks Kate)

Actor Paul Bettany mentioned The Cure in the Metro on Dec. 16th. (Thanks Ed)

People magazine saw Kirsten Dunst dancing at the Troubadour show. (Thanks Heron)

There was a Robert sighting on the awful tv show, TMZ. They insulted him, made asses out of themselves, and that's all I'm posting about that. (Thanks to everyone who sent the info in)

"Looking around the great blog, mutant sounds, and found this. Seems there was a band back in the early 80's inspired by the best song from 'faith' (IMO). download to find some tracks that somewhat resemble skeletal cure songs from that period, as well as an interesting cover of 'the forest' - from 1983 - guessing it was the first cure cover ever released (on cassette, anyway)."
(Thanks Trevin)

"There's a jazz version of "In Between Days" on iTunes. The artist is a German jazz musician I've never heard of before."
(Thanks Thomas)

Just Like Heaven covers compilation

Tetsuo Lumiere has made a video compilation of JLH cover versions. (Thanks The)

UTS (Renholder remix)

You can hear the Underneath The Stars remix on the MySpace page for Underworld: Rise of the Lycans. The track is credited to "The Cure (f/ Maynard James Keenan/Puscifer and Milla) - Underneath The Stars (Renholder Remix). " (Thanks Ryan)

Note: Please stop posting download links for the song. This is commercially available, so either buy the album, or download the track when available. Thanks.

Cure make more Best of 2008 lists

The Troubadour secret show was #1 on Lyndsey Parker's Top Ten L.A. Gigs of 2008. (Thanks Heron)

4:13 Dream is #23 on Planet Sounds' Top 50 Albums of 2008 chart. (Thanks Andrew)

The album is also #2 on Jeremy Willets' Top 10 of 2008 list in the Cleveland Free Times, and #7 on Craig S. Semon's Top 10 of 2008 list in the Worcester Telegram & Gazette.

The 4Tour is mentioned as one of the best shows in Tampa this year, by the Tampa Tribune. (Thanks Kate)

5 new Cure shirts

Rev. Heron is starting the new year right, with 5 new shirt designs! (Thanks Heron)

New Robert Photo

NME has posted a new photo of Robert, from when he was doing the photo shoot for the recent NME cover story. (Thanks Aaron)

Memories of the 4Tour

Timo sent in some great photos during the Euro 4Tour, and now he's made a very nice video, reflecting on all of the shows he went to. (Thanks Timo)

Merry Christmas!

Have a Very Merry Christmas, and the Happiest of Holidays!

Trilogy on Blu-Ray update

As first mentioned back on Oct. 14th, Eagle Rock will be releasing Trilogy on Blu-Ray in 2009. The date has slipped a bit, but it IS coming. It's now scheduled for release on Feb. 3rd, 2009 (US) and on Feb. 9th, 2009 (Europe). (Thanks Fuji)

Update: Listed for pre-ordering at CDJapan, Amazon (UK), Amazon (Germany), Play (UK), Play (Euro). (Thanks Andreas)

Cure on Best of 2008 lists

"The Portuguese music magazine called "Blitz" (blitz.aeiou.pt) asked their readers to choose the best 20 concerts in Portugal in 2008. The Cure were listed #9 for their concert in the Pavilhão Atlântico, Lisbon (March, 8th 2008)!! Not bad!!
From the same magazine, "Blitz", 4:13 Dream was chosen by the readers as #30 in the Best International 2008 Album category." (I've posted the full lists in the comments section)
(Thanks JupiterMain)

Hungry Ghost on Kimmel

The Cure's performance of The Hungry Ghost has finally been posted on the Jimmy Kimmel website. Just wait for the commercial to finish, and the clip will start.

Cure make Top 10 of 2008 list

Okay, it's People magazine, but you take what you can get. : )
"Just reading the Best and Worst of 2008 PEOPLE Magazine. THE CURE 4:13 Dream has made the Top 10 Best of Music in 2008 list. They come in at #7. " (Thanks Pauline)