In 1993, the iconoclastic alternative act Morphine reached its apex with the album “Cure for Pain.” And while the Boston-born trio doled out narcotized, low-end-heavy rockers, the band took ...

The Boston-based “low rock” band Morphine had to figure out how to move forward after Mark Sandman, the band’s singer-songwriter-bassist, suffered a heart attack and died on stage in ...

The band’s final album, “The Night,” was released about six months after Sandman collapsed onstage at a festival in Palestrina, Italy, where he died of a heart attack in July 1999. He was 46 ...

Boston band "Morphine" (Courtesy) “'Cure For Pain' just loudly announces that it is a classic,” author and Hallelujah the Hills frontman Ryan H. Walsh adds.

Andy Vella, go-to album cover design for The Cure, talks us through five of his most enduring sleeves for the U.K. band.