@curegigstats.bsky.social Hey Cure Gig Stats- how’s the harvest coming along? Would love to taste your cider when we are visiting the UK for Cure shows next year! Maybe we can bring some of ours! #Cider #TheCure #TheCureCiderSwap

@craigatcof.bsky.social @thecure.com @robert.thecure.com @reevesgabrels.bsky.social @rogerodonnell.com Today on KEXP, John Richards of the Morning Show played 3 hours of The Cure, and anointed today the first annual International Curesday. You can hear the show here: www.kexp.org/shows/the-mo...

🎶 Music ✈️ Travel (even better if for music!) 🍇🍎🍐Making wine, cider, perry ✨ Stargazing 🦉Birds and other creatures (And just about everything Robert Smith- related always makes me feel better):

Loved seeing Modest Mouse at the Greek Theater in Berkeley, CA tonight! They were great yet again. It was my husband’s birthday- he was born 10 minutes away from here 50 years ago today!

Fontaines DC were great in Paris tonight!

Grapes are sizing up!

Bottling our wine today. 🍷

#Birds Fledgling Bald Eagles scrounging for worms and whatnot.

A couple of religious folks knocked on the door earlier to evangelize their religion. Most people would ignore them or tell them to piss off. Not my husband. He takes those knocks as a direct invitation for him to spout his opinions about everything wrong in the world for 20 solid minutes. 😂😂😂

Ahhh…. Summer. The blue skies, the sunlight on your skin, the gentle breeze in your hair, watching the birds on the wing… and listening to your neighbors enthusiastically exercising their second amendment rights loudly and repeatedly for hours on end. 😕

#MusicChallenge #ArtistFave90s Day 10 Modest Mouse- Trailer Trash One of their best on a masterpiece of an album. youtu.be/5kwLVhnTYlI

#MusicChallenge #ArtistFave90s Day 9 Modest Mouse- Teeth Like God’s Shoeshine youtu.be/VuCXo7Vtrks?...

#MusicChallenge #ArtistFave90s Day 8 Modest Mouse- Sleep Walkin’ Ah to be young and in love and stealing your friend’s parents booze youtu.be/f33Uloq07T8?...

#MusicChallenge #ArtistFave90s Day 7 Modest Mouse- Shit Luck This song might hit a little too close to home these days. youtu.be/00XevbzQoI8?...

#MusicChallenge #ArtistFave90s Day 6 Modest Mouse- Polar Opposites There is an unspoken rule in my house that any day drinking must commence with the initiator yelping “I’m tryin!” youtu.be/k8A6g37KJj0

#MusicChallenge #ArtistFave90s Day 5 Modest Mouse- Dramamine youtu.be/dXBEuQwy5NU

Out working in the grapevines today. Flower buds are beginning to open. Earliest stages of this year’s wine!

#MusicChallenge #ArtistFave90s Day 4 Modest Mouse- Doin’ The Cockroach youtu.be/RIXWhTjnQwQ?...

#MusicChallenge #ArtistFave90s Day 3 Modest Mouse- Cowboy Dan youtu.be/1e4Hcm2kRjA?...

#MusicChallenge #ArtistFave90s Day 2 Modest Mouse- Broke youtu.be/Orgo_6E_s5w?...

#MusicChallenge #ArtistFave90s Day 1 Modest Mouse- Breakthrough youtu.be/T1NdKnxkMlY?...

#Top20BookendAlbums Alphabetized, Unranked Day 20 XX- The XX O: Intro C: Stars There were a couple months in 2009 where this was possibly the only album playing anywhere. Still great from start to finish. youtu.be/qFq6nnw7xg0?... youtu.be/2VX_ywejU5Y?...

#Top20BookendAlbums Alphabetized, Unranked Day 19 Wild Mood Swings- The Cure O: Want C: Bare Say what you want about WMS, but there are some fantastic songs on this album. Want is a top all-time Cure song and Bare is so sweet and devastating. youtu.be/XP6IeFi57bw?... youtu.be/MCS_cr4CFKs?...

#Top20BookendAlbums Alphabetized, Unranked Day 18 Unknown Pleasures- Joy Division O: Disorder C: I Remember Nothing Sometimes an album is just so good, so iconic, so all-engrossing that it’s bound to make most Top XYZ list, so…Unknown Pleasures. youtu.be/5BIElTtN6Fs?... youtu.be/NDMxGIyZGgg?...

#Top20BookendAlbums Alphabetized, Unranked Day 17 This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About- Modest Mouse O: Dramamine C: Space Travel Is Boring An amazing debut album- this one is both set firmly in 1996 and timeless for me. youtu.be/dXBEuQwy5NU?... youtu.be/LKuNFfy_q8E?...

#Top20BookendAlbums Alphabetized, Unranked Day 16 Starfish- The Church O: Destination C: Hotel Womb This album is the soundtrack to a very specifically bizarre and difficult time in my life decades ago. It will always be a solace and escape for me. youtu.be/fz5cKCIM-3A youtu.be/VRkMJrRhRsE

#Top20BookendAlbums Alphabetized, Unranked Day 15 Songs of a Lost World- The Cure O: Alone C: Endsong The grandeur and depth of sorrow of this album is everything we hoped for The Cure’s longest awaited album. Perfect bookends for this masterpiece. youtu.be/sx9SVAtMkJM?... youtu.be/gA5pg7DRLf4?...

#Top20BookendAlbums Alphabetized, Unranked Day 14 Skinty Fia- Fontaines DC O: In ár gCroíthe go deo C: Nabakov This album starts off with a beautiful emotional plea for respect and and ends with howl of self-degradation and loathing. It’s fantastic. youtu.be/hjdqNC9foUw?... youtu.be/sejGvEdk3IU

#Top20BookendAlbums Alphabetized, Unranked Day 13 Script of the Bridge- The Chameleons O: Don’t Fall C: View From a Hill This underrated band wrote the blueprint for a number of post-punk bands that have followed in their footsteps for decades. youtu.be/tLR3Q47-gMg youtu.be/v3nbk3Eqs5A?...

Peaceful anti- Trump antifascist protest march in Seattle today. Massive turnout.

#Top20BookendAlbums Alphabetized, Unranked Day 12 Ocean Rain- Echo and the Bunnymen O: Silver C: Ocean Rain Such a gorgeous album- cinematic, full of drama and mystery and sparkle. And Ian McCulloch’s voice is as rich and beautiful as ever. youtu.be/qoXLbZ75ZpA youtu.be/p_AsT8Ney4A

#Top20BookendAlbums Alphabetized, Unranked Day 11 Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret- Soft Cell O: Frustration C: Say Hello, Wave Goodbye Soft Cell mastered combining youthful vibrancy, alienation, sarcasm, sinister sweetness and late night dark alley clubs. 🖤 youtu.be/EebuXP2YLE8 youtu.be/uzeOmduDr5Q

#Top20BookendAlbums Alphabetized, Unranked Day 10 Nevermind- Nirvana O: Smells Like Teen Spirit C: Something InThe Way C: Endless, Nameless Of course SLTS is stellar, but “both” closers end this album perfectly. youtu.be/hTWKbfoikeg?... youtu.be/4VxdufqB9zg?... youtu.be/uj1PagCfejs?...

#Top20BookendAlbums Alphabetized, Unranked Day 9 The Lonesome Crowded West- Modest Mouse O: Teeth Like God’s Shoeshine C: Styrofoam Boots/ It’s All Nice on Ice, Alright Isaac Brock is a great lyricist- brutal, funny, wise, feral- with the music to match! youtu.be/VuCXo7Vtrks youtu.be/Gk7X-_dWCOc

#Top20BookendAlbums Alphabetized, Unranked Day 8 London Calling- The Clash O: London Calling C: Train in Vain The Clash was one of the first bands that was “mine” and their politics and empathy had a huge impact on shaping my world view. ⚖️❤️✊ youtu.be/EfK-WX2pa8c?... youtu.be/aUzBgeI5dpc?...

#Top20BookendAlbums Alphabetized, Unranked Day 7 Hyaena- Siouxsie and the Banshees O: Dazzle C: Blow The House Down We music fans benefitted from our heroes’ use of hallucinogenics! Siouxsie’s voice is gorgeous as always & full of ominous rage. youtu.be/z8kJp-NxAuY?... youtu.be/W6tL_W_JPlM?...

#Top20BookendAlbums Alphabetized, Unranked Day 6 The Head on the Door- The Cure O: In Between Days C: Sinking Beginning with that jangly flying feeling of some Cure songs. Then you hear the words. And the howl in Sinking that is so good here live. youtu.be/scif2vfg1ug?... youtu.be/ER6OuLM3vt8?...

#Top20BookendAlbums Alphabetized, Unranked Day 5 Faith- The Cure O: The Holy Hour C: Faith Simon Gallup’s bass is the star of this album. Those first sonorous notes are a declaration of intent and Faith’s melodic gravity somehow makes its desperate plea comforting. 🖤 youtube.com/playlist?lis...

#Top20BookendAlbums Alphabetized, Unranked Day 4 Doolittle- Pixies O: Debaser C: Gouge Away Pixies sometimes sound like they were locked in a room with instruments and wrote songs without having heard other music before. They are wholly unique. And hilarious! youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Just left work and saw this septic truck parked across the street. 😂

#Top20BookendAlbums Alphabetized, unranked Day 3 Dogrel- Fontaines DC O: Big C: Dublin City Sky Brilliant debut album. And Big had to be about the most adorable video ever made. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

#Top20BookendAlbums Alphabetical, unranked Day 2. Disintegration- The Cure O: Plainsong C: Untitled From perhaps the best opening song of all time, a holy hymn for all of humanity, to the haunting melancholy pangs of goodbyes you can never say, this album is sublime. youtu.be/EVOSPb9B1SU?...

@top10nathan.bsky.social #Top20BookendAlbums Alphabetical, unranked Day 1: Boys Don’t Cry- The Cure O: Boys Don’t Cry C: Three Imaginary Boys Yeah, yeah, it’s a compilation and TIB and all that, but I’m American and this was our first Cure album. youtu.be/KYkV0nAmHKc?...

Slowdive were gorgeous in Seattle tonight!

Fontaines DC were great again tonight in Washington DC!

#Mogwai @mogwai.scot @plasmatron.bsky.social @barry.mogwai.scot Mogwai was fantastic in Seattle! Thanks for expressing your love for the Showbox. “Have you noticed your country is kinda fucked up right now?” Equal parts heartbreaking and massive understatement. Hope we DO see you again here! ❤️

Pretty spring day!

Fontaines DC were great in Seattle last night. Such a fun show!

Bud break in the vineyard has begun.

Northern Puget Sound.