Tim Kasher recognized at an early age that time has a way of dulling the edges of creativity and stripping songwriters of their emotional potency, especially in the realm of rock music. And that's why ...
In 2003, Omaha emo band Cursive released the pivotal album The Ugly Organ. The New York Times had just crowned the Nebraska city the indie capital of the world, and Cursive was about to quadruple the ...
James Brown may have been the hardest-working man in show business, but Tim Kasher certainly deserves some consideration for that honor in the emo/post-hardcore business. As the frontman for Cursive ...
The stage was brightly lit with the black stenciled numbers “400” beaming behind the instruments and microphone stands as a soft hum came from the speakers at the 400 Bar, Friday March 23, as Omaha ...
Omaha’s Cursive are releasing a new album, Devourer, on September 13 via Run For Cover, their first for the label. Now they have shared its third single,“Imposturing,” via a gory music video directed ...
Fans who are used to waiting a long time between Cursive albums got an early fix October 11, when the long-running posthardcore and emo-style band put out its second full-length release in 12 months.
Musicians tend to soften with age. It's the natural way of things. Bands usually start as collectives of friends with fires in their bellies, but as time passes there tends to be less fire and more ...
SA music fans are in for a treat this week thanks to a wealth of great shows, some featuring touring acts but many highlighting local talent. Let’s take a look. Internet radio station KPSA has been ...
During the underground rock explosion of the late-’80s to mid-’90s, new scenes seemed to pop up every couple years—Athens, Minneapolis, Chapel Hill and Seattle. The most unlikely was perhaps Omaha, ...
With each successive release, Cursive seems to further cement itself as an increasingly important band while quietly moving away from the emo label it had been saddled with early on in its career—a ...
For a while, Cursive seemed unlikely to put out another record after 2012’s I Am Gemini. Frontman Tim Kasher made another record with his other band, the Good Life, and made a film (and its soundtrack ...