Blog: Violent Success

Kicking off the North American leg of their tour, Cursive headlined the after-party for Chicago’s Wicker Park Festival on Friday July 27 at Subterranean . Everyone seemed to hold a smile and a cold beer, except the several younger under-21 audience members sprinkled throughout the venue, with bold black X’s marked across their hands and an eagerness in their faces as they inched their way toward the stage. The opening acts represented the strongest forces of the Cursive power, intensity and emotion. Local band The Sky We Scrape was up first, [...]