Cursive + Cymbals Eat Guitars + Conduits / Mr. Small's / 03.18.2012 / Doors 7:00 / $16 Words by Brendan There must be something in the water in Omaha. There have been so many great bands from that Nebraska city, and there are plenty more on the up-and-up. Case in point: shoegaze gloom-pop band Conduits . They're putting out their first LP this month and heading on a cross-country tour with two great rock bands- Cursive (fellow Omahans!) and Cymbals Eat Guitars -and they're [...]
[The Lookahead is a monthly segment where we get to be all newsy and point out cool stuff going down in the next 30 days or so. We'll have cool Pittsburgh music shows and events, local album releases, and some national releases of interest. This is the good stuff we've heard about. Come back on the 1st of each month for more!] Welcome to the March edition of The Lookahead! We're starting off with some upcoming Pittsburgh events-concerts and music-oriented festivals-and some local bands [...]
[The Lookahead is a monthly segment where we get to be all newsy and point out cool stuff going down in the next 30 days or so. We'll have cool Pittsburgh music shows and events, local album releases, and some national releases of interest. This is the good stuff we've heard about. Come back on the 1st of each month for more!] Welcome to the March edition of The Lookahead! We're starting off with some upcoming Pittsburgh events-concerts and music-oriented festivals-and some local bands [...]
Welcome to the newly expanded Audiography! In this edition, we recap music's biggest news, and review the latest releases from Tennis, A Place to Bury Strangers, and Cursive. We also sit down with Erika Wennerstrom, leader of Austin, TX-based Heartless Bastards, and discuss the making of their new album The Arrow , how she re-focused after ending a longterm relationship, working with spoon drummer Jim Eno, and how the Beatles and Thin Lizzy make appearances of sorts on the latest album. Featured Music: 01. Tennis - "Petition", High Road 02. A Place To Bury [...]
I've been slow on the draw this month...but it's not my fault. I blame the lack of quality music from our rock n roll vets. Outside of Van Halen...February has been a slow month for artists with solid resumes. There have been some strong releases which I promise to get to at the end of the week for an early 2012 recap, but there haven't a lot great releases by experienced artists. I'm not
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Omaha, Nebraska's Cursive visited The Glasshouse in Pomona and put on one hell of a show.
In Part One of this week's Best New Releases, there are many lead singles off of new albums, bonus tracks and flashback tracks from artists like fun, Princeton, Grimes, Wild Nothing, Dirty Ghosts and Perfume Genius. We decided to split last week's new releases into two posts, since we wanted the Part One installment to [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
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Tweet After many hiatuses, members leaving, calling it quits several times, several triumphal albums, solo explorations (or at least for frontman Tim Kasher, a.k.a. The Good Life ) and the like, it can't be denied that Cursive has been through a harrowing journey since their first debut in 1995. With their managing to stay intact as a band definitely deserving of a solid thumbs up, Cursive once again takes the concept album route, a familiar [...]
As a sort of bandwagon Cursive fan — I've only given their 2009 release Mama, I'm Swollen a proper listen — I was a little hesitant reviewing this show. It felt like I was going in blind, especially considering the lineup included three opening bands, all of whom I'd never heard before. To make matters worse, I was attending by myself. By the end of the show — and my first experience with the cathartic, fist-in-the-air sing alongs Cursive do so well — it felt like I'd been through a potent group therapy [...]
Let it never be said that Cursive don't know how to put on a spectacle. As most followers of Omaha's troubled sons will be aware of by now, seventh full-length I Am Gemini is perhaps their most ambitious release yet, particularly in terms of narrative, detailing the story of Cassius and Pollock, twins separated at birth, one good, one evil. And from the moment that the vinyl (happily available with ease this side of the pond via Big Scary Monsters – but they're limited to 500, so snap 'em up quick) is [...]
There are the essential albums that need to be in everyone's collection. There are the personal favorites, the ones that aren't highly acclaimed but still get played every once in a while. And then there are the albums that you stick in the back of your collection because you want to forget that you spent money on them. "Own It or Disown It" gives the writer the opportunity to look at such discarded albums and determine if they are diamonds in the rough or if they deserve to be used as mini-frisbees. [...]
We give you a couple lovely acoustic videos to go with your Thursday show list: ► Good Times for a Good Cause Dept.: Wires in the Walls, Telstar and Little Red Lung team up for a benefit show at the Mint presented by Rock Is a Girl's Best Friend and Buzz Bands LA (who will DJ the proceedings). Proceeds go to PATH (People Assisting the Homeless). ► Robert Francis (that's him doing "Some Things Never Change," top, off his forthcoming album "Strangers in the First Place") opens for [...]
Cursive - I Am Gemini (Saddle Creek) A idéia é bem batida: irmãos gêmeos, um bom e um mal, a dualidade da vida, anjos e demonios, etc, mas vindo de Tim Kasher até algo contado inúmeras vezes pode soar extremamente complexo. Assim, I Am Gemini é um disco conceitual com uma imensa história e diversos personagens por trás. Warmer Warmer e The Sun and The Moon trazem um Kasher bem acessivel e contagiante, enquanto This House is Alive mostra a densidade [...]
Cursive: I Am Gemini - Cursive are a post punk band from Omaha, Nebraska. For the last few years, Cursive have been experimenting with lots of different elements and instruments trying to find their niche. Surprisingly, nearly every combination they've tried has worked remarkably well. First they added cellist Gretta Cohn on 20012s Burst And Bloom and continued to incorporate her almost flawlessly for nearly 4 years and 3 releases. Then after the departure of Cohn, they decided to incorporate horns on 20062s Happy Hollow [...]
Cursive is no stranger to the idea of the concept album. They started working with them on 2001's Domestica , continued with 2003's masterwork The Ugly Organ , and most recently on 2006's Happy Hollow . Lead singer and songwriter Tim Kasher has returned to the conceptual well and crafted the band's seventh studio album, I Am Gemini – a dark tale of twins (one good, one bad) separated at birth and now meeting for the first time. As the story suggests, it's their most ambitious album to date. Lyrically, Kasher has moved [...]
Cursive I Am Gemini Saddle Creek Records [2012] Fire Note Says: Cursive return with a concept record that only they could release. Album Review: I will tell you up front that I have never been that into concept albums. This of course creates an issue with Cursive because some of their best earlier work was concept driven. I Am Gemini gets back to their roots [...]
Omaha's own Cursive has been steadily releasing solid rock albums for over 15 years. Their frantic musical style combined with lead singer Tim Kasher 's personal, creative, and at times grandiose lyrics have forged a completely unique sound. Their 2009 release, Mama, I'm Swollen , garnered attention across the country, and landed them their network TV debut on The Late Show with David Letterman . Their newest disc, I Am Gemini , is an 11-song concept album based on the story of two twins meeting each other for the first [...]
To celebrate today's crop of releases, here are new mp3s from Archers Of Loaf, Bright Moments, Guy Capecelatro III, Chief Boima, Cursive, Dot Hacker, Ducky, Grimes, Damien Jurado, Lambchop, Damon Moon And The Whispering Drifters, Onward, Soldiers, Royal Canoe and Terry Malts. Also, vote for your favorite of today's new releases.
Well, it's about to happen again. Don't say I didn't warn you chaps ahead of time. Whenever Ume is slotted to play first (read - they are the opening act) they inevitably destroy every single band that comes after them. It doesn't matter if you have "punk" credentials out the ying-yang like The Meat Puppets or [...]
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