MONTCLAIR, NJ—I remember first buying the album Love by The Cult.  It wasn’t 1985, but I probably did have too much hairspray and eyeliner on at the time.  I knew a couple of their hits and liked Ian Astbury’s ruffled shirts, so I figured it’d be a good filler record…

We ran an interview with Ian Asbury of the Cult about a month ago which was edited down heavily to fit the constraints of print as he and writer Andrea Seastrand talked for what must have been over an hour about, well, everything. As The Cult’s coming back

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Formed in 1983, The Cult gained popularity over the decade with prolific songwriting and successful albums like Love (1985), Electric (1986), and Sonic Temple (1988). Chart-climbing hits such as “She Sells Sanctuary” and Sonic Temple’s “Fire Woman” kept the young band on a steady touring schedule. Now, over two decades…

Ian Astbury in a fur hat, certainly having earned the right to deem what passes for cool in rock, comes out to introduce his friend Kostas Seremetis’ new film entitled Resistance. It was greeted with mixed reviews, but you have to respect the fact that The Cult are embracing the multimedia age.…