As singer and chief songwriter of The Cult for more than 40 years, Ian Astbury has written, along with guitarist Billy Duffy, some of the most memorable and intoxicating rock songs in the 1980s, ’90s, ...

Sixteen-year-old me absolutely loved The Cult. In fact, their second record, 1985’s “Love,” came out on my 16th birthday, and it was my favorite album by far that year. It was my junior year in high ...

Ian Astbury is in a good place. He and guitarist Billy Duffy are about to perform one U.S. show as Death Cult, the storied post-punk progenitor to The Cult. The band started rehearsals recently for ...

Ian Astbury isn’t looking backward. Not exactly. He’s looking through time like a prism—slicing past, present, and future into one jagged, glittering beam. “Nostalgia is an illusion,” he tells me.

There are a lot of pop songs out there that have flopped, and even more that have gained immense popularity. Some of the ones that flop end up being cult classics, gaining traction on TikTok and ...

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