Lol Tolhurst, Co-Founder of The Cure, Literally Wrote The Book on Goth History
If you’re going to read one book about goth culture, you might as well read the one written by a co-founder of the gothiest goth band. Lol Tolhurst’s new work, Goth: A History, is a must-read for any Cure fan and an entirely pleasing experience for anyone interested in the subculture. Far from an encyclopedic text of a few thousand bands you may have heard about if you ever shopped at the one place in town that sold band shirts and leather jackets (looking at you, Chicago’s The Alley), Goth is an engrossing memoir/history lesson in the happy-sad subculture.
Read MoreA dark history of Goth, a genre obsessed with love and death
Goth has looked for beauty in the darkness for time immemorial. We trace the genre’s history, from the Goths sacking Rome to the Romantic poets and The Cure
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