When you’re a little kid, cursive handwriting seems like such an arcane, esoteric thing: Its strange and indecipherable loops and swirls reduce words to fluid mystery, some secret code shared by grown ...

On Friday, a respectable showing of locals with a taste for furious sadness (as opposed to the much less glamorous sad furiousness) braved the cold and filed into Paper Tiger to catch Cursive’s first ...

On Cursive‘s latest full-length, the band calls humanity on its bullshit through the standard, “wake-the-fuck-up” music of American rebellion: rock ‘n’ roll. The disc features legions of crunchy, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

If it’s possible that there’s a good time to find out that the first person you said “I love you” to is marrying the girl he dumped you for, you could do worse than the middle of a Cursive show. I’m ...

Omaha post-rock heroes Cursive come to town often, with frontman Tim Kasher careening through hits from releases during Saddle Creek’s heyday like Domestica and The Ugly Organ. And while this music ...

The members of Cursive never seem to idle for long – if at all. The Omaha, Nebraska, early-emo post-hardcore band launched their own record label in 2017, released their eighth studio album Vitriola ...

A new Cursive CD is always a welcome event for the band's fans, not just because it means there's new music to hear and enjoy, but because once it releases an album, it's never quite a sure thing that ...

As one of the more notable bands to come out of the early 2000s post-hardcore scene, Cursive have almost certainly influenced a whole lot of bands who’d go on to sign with Run For Cover. Now, Cursive ...

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 ...