Fan of The Cure? Listen to this

Got a bit of a treat to share with any fans of The Cure. Releasing next year, Just Like Heaven: A Tribute To The Cure is exactly what it says it is. An album full of covers by bands who regard The Cure highly.

The album is due for release on January 27, 2009. In the meantime why not check out some of these full-length tracks that we've been given permission to share with you. I like the one by Grand Duchy a lot - featuring the big man Frank Black, with Violet Clark.

"We chose "A Strange Day" because it's an awesome song, and it's not one of the Hits. It's just obscure enough to have allowed us to come out of left field a bit, and to represent a lesser-known period in the Cure's career for the tribute record. We really had fun reinventing the song and being playful without the self-consciousness one might encounter when messing with the iconic quality of some of the more well-known songs."-- Grand Duchy

I've been listening to the Cure since I was 12. I loved their live version of 'A Night Like This' on the 'Show' record, it's very haunting and it's always been my favorite song." -- Julie Peel

"It wasn't until Kevin Shields played us some of his earliest music that we realized how much of a seminal band the Cure really is. Robert Smith's songwriting is so etheral and yet totally structured. We never would have related the two bands to one another but if you listen through all of My Bloody Valentine's layers the inspiration is clear. Of the long list of bands inspired by MBV, us included, a lot of the credit really needs to go to the Cure." -- Joy Zipper

Enjoy! I'll post more songs later this month. ;)

The editor, MusicVice.com