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The Cure Confirm Double Album, Lauryn Hill Disappoints Fans, Gene Simmons Reflects on Drugs

7/10/07, 9:27 am EST

  • Robert Smith has confirmed the Cure’s 13th studio album will be a double CD, saying “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.” The still-untitled release is scheduled to arrive in October, and Smith predicts he’ll mix the double-CD — which he plans to sell at the price of a single disc — and the band’s label will also release a single-disc version.
  • Panic! at the Disco have been added to Sunday’s Virgin Festival lineup. The quartet will also reportedly be recording their own version of *NSYNC’s “Space Cowboy” with Gym Class Heroes’ Travis McCoy for an upcoming ’90s pop covers album.
  • Lauryn Hill outraged fans at a U.K. gig last night by showing up two hours late — after some devotees had given up and gone home, and just a half-hour before the venue was scheduled to close — and allegedly appearing intoxicated onstage.
  • Construction will begin this year on a statue dedicated to the Beatles in Hamburg, Germany, to commemorate the place where the band launched its international career.
  • KISS’ Gene Simmons seems to be following Ted Nugent’s lead as he reflects on the “drugs” part of sex, drugs and rock & roll: “Getting high was considered the lowest of the low. And then, of course, Hollywood made it socially acceptable,” Simmons told AOL. “And rock stars, of course, who were qualified to do nothing except shine your shoes, took it even further and made it into a kind of lifestyle.”

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44-DDs | 7/10/2007, 9:46 am EST

yeah buddy with the cure!…….my nipps just got hard!

yo gene! | 7/10/2007, 9:56 am EST

You sound like a old fart. Long live drugs!

Kyle | 7/10/2007, 10:09 am EST

The Cure is back! I can only hope the double-album isn’t too much.

mikeky | 7/10/2007, 10:17 am EST

you know, robert smith needs to lose some weight (especially if he’s going to insist on looking like somebody’s mother). just saying.

abandonedstation | 7/10/2007, 10:27 am EST

A Cure double album? That must have required a hell of a lot of eyeshadow and lipstick to put together.

I guess Panic! At! The! Disco! were sitting around thinking, ‘how can we suck even more?’ ‘Nsync covers!’

Late? Drunk onstage? Sounds like Lauryn Hill is a rock star to me.

I’m gonna take drug advice from two of shittest, cheesiest, overrated rock stars ever (Nugent and Simmons)? People don’t take drugs because rock stars do them, moron. People take drugs because it makes them feel good. Wars were fought over drugs (China vs. British Empire over opium) before the concept of celebrity meant anything at all, so don’t go ragging on all the artists who are much more talented than you. You’re doing a third-rate reality TV show, Gene, so why don’t you keep your holier-than-thou opinions and your wagging tongue to yourself?

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Charlie Brown | 7/10/2007, 11:14 am EST

Cure-whatever
Panic!- sucks
Lauren Hill- sucks
Gene- sucks for as big of an ego that hes got

jungleland | 7/10/2007, 11:36 am EST

I kinda agree with Gene and Ted. People take drugs because they are bored, easily influenced, don’t have a job that requires them to be drug free, and are trying to be cool. Sounds like musicians (and 20-ish burnout followers)to me.

I did not think that way as a 20-something musician, but at 36 I don’t see what drugs ever did for me that I would consider positive. (ok acid made my hair grow faster and drug girls are kinda easy so there is a positive I guess)

Matt | 7/10/2007, 11:46 am EST

who does Lauren Hill think she is, Amy Whinehouse?

Lance | 7/10/2007, 12:36 pm EST

Im sorry I did not understand anything from those articles, I took a lot of drugs today….

Dude E. | 7/10/2007, 12:37 pm EST

Without drugs, the Beatles would never have written a good song.

!!!!!! | 7/10/2007, 12:39 pm EST

After the disaster that was their self-titled disc it’s going to take some convincing for me to get back on the Cure train with a double disc album.

john | 7/10/2007, 1:01 pm EST

Anyone had enough of Gene Simmons?? Kiss sucks, the songs suck, disco kiss sucked, go to hell you pompous arrogant full of hot air asshole.

john | 7/10/2007, 1:04 pm EST

gene, we dont need any more of your hot air!!

mike | 7/10/2007, 1:12 pm EST

Robert Smith looks like my grandma when she gets all dolled up…That said, my grandma’s last double album rocked!

mike | 7/10/2007, 1:12 pm EST

Robert Smith looks like my grandma when she gets all dolled up…That said, my grandma’s last double album rocked!

mike | 7/10/2007, 1:12 pm EST

Robert Smith looks like my grandma when she gets all dolled up…That said, my grandma’s last double album rocked!

your mom | 7/10/2007, 1:16 pm EST

A Cure double album – obviously to go with the double helpings of desert that Smith has been eating (NOT his most flattering photo)

Jeff | 7/10/2007, 1:27 pm EST

And Gene Simmons, of course, openly admits that he doesn’t have friends…and, of course, doesn’t know how to treat women…and, of course, jerks off to himself in the mirror.

Stuporfly | 7/10/2007, 1:28 pm EST

Robert Smith looks like some dumb emo kid wearing an oversized rubber Robert Smith Halloween mask.

justbecuz | 7/10/2007, 1:32 pm EST

Any fool can look at the clips of Lauryn performing on youtube and know she is not drunk or on drugs. She is always late starting her performances and if these fools would do their research and stop looking for a 20 year old Lauryn Hill to suddenly appear they might enjoy the ride; because, she is fabulous.

Anonymous | 7/10/2007, 1:42 pm EST

gee,another 70’s has-been out for more press.gene,get a life.

Gu$ Hu$la | 7/10/2007, 1:44 pm EST

Anyone who likes kiss is retarded.
The Cure SUX! Long live the disease!!!

Gu$ Hu$la | 7/10/2007, 1:44 pm EST

Anyone who likes kiss is retarded.
The Cure SUX! Long live the disease!!!

Herb | 7/10/2007, 3:07 pm EST

Sure, he’s a jerk, but he’s right when he said that Hollywood and Rock stars did glamourize drug use.

Lado | 7/10/2007, 3:22 pm EST

How can you “rock and roll all night, and party every day” without drugs? I’m confused.

Steph | 7/10/2007, 3:57 pm EST

Haha! I HOPE Panic! does a version of an nsync song. that would be so funny! lol Im so excited.

david | 7/10/2007, 4:52 pm EST

their a good band, and can make any shitty song good. onve I heard a cover of maneater by p!atd, and it was good!that song isnt bad, though and N*SYNC is

bat chain puller | 7/10/2007, 4:56 pm EST

If you think drugs suck , then go home and destroy your entire record collection.

HH | 7/10/2007, 5:36 pm EST

and the cure’s got porl thmpson back with them. screw all this van halen talk. thsi is the real reunion of the year. the clasic cure is back

supersonic | 7/10/2007, 7:23 pm EST

Rockstars who are qualified to do nothing but shine your shoes took (drug use) to a new level???
Gee, you’re right Gene. You should remind Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, Mick and Keith or Paul McCartney- the next time you run into them- of how lousy their music was because they used drugs!
Maybe while you’re there you can bend down and spitshine their shoes, bitch.

atang | 7/12/2007, 5:45 am EST

“who does Lauren Hill think she is, Amy Whinehouse?”

What a joke if i was Lauryn Hill I would have killed myself to be compared to that skunk
Ms Lauryn Hill thinking she is Amy you must be retarded or on drugs. Amy is good but not at Lauryn’s level on in a million years.

Princess | 7/20/2007, 10:00 pm EST

I didn’t get that feedback actually! I heard from a RELIABLE source that it was the band that was drownin her voice out and the sound tec was appallin. If she was drunk who cares, most performers are when they go on stage…. they normally do a bit more than jus drink. Lauryn is a legend but nobodies perfect. We seem to think celebrities are flawless which is silly coz they’re just human believe it or not!

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Johnny Kim | 10/25/2007, 2:29 am EST

Gene Simmons!!

killa | 6/1/2008, 7:55 pm EST

KISS BLOWS!
GENE SIMMONS IS A LOSER!
HIS SHOW ON A&E IS PATHETIC!

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