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Cursive

American indie rock band

Cursive is an American indie rock band from Omaha, Nebraska. Stylistically described as emo and post-hardcore, Cursive came to prominence with 2000's Domestica and found commercial and critical success with 2003's The Ugly Organ.

The band has released ten studio albums, a compilations album, and a mix of singles and EPs since 1997. They have released recordings on several labels, including 15 Passenger Records, Saddle Creek Records, and Big Scary Monsters (UK).

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Cursive

what: a band
from: Omaha
since: 1995
on the air here: 10 songs

File card: Cursive

members: Tim Kasher

formed in: Omaha

labels: Saddle Creek Records

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Early years and breakup (1995–98)

Cursive formed in the spring of 1995, shortly after Slowdown Virginia broke up. Slowdown Virginia members Tim Kasher (lead vocals, guitar), Matt Maginn (bass), and Steve Pedersen (guitar) had parted ways, along with their drummer, a month prior. The three members decided that they were not ready to give up making music, and wanted to give music a serious try, with Kasher saying, "[we] decided with Cursive we would write the best we could, believe in it, and if everyone ended up hating it – well, we would deal with it." Clint Schnase joined as a drummer, having previously played with Pedersen in a band called Smashmouth (not the other band of that name). Kasher said the band's name was inspired by a passage from a book by V. S. Naipaul,...

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Reformation: Domestica and Burst and Bloom (1999–2002)

A little over a year later, in the summer of 1999, the band re-formed when Kasher got divorced and returned to Omaha. With Pedersen gone to law school, Ted Stevens (formerly of Lullaby for the Working Class) joined the band on guitar and vocals. Within a year Cursive recorded and released their third full-length album, Domestica, in 2000. A concept album about the dissolution of a marriage, Domestica gained Cursive critical success for the first time. While not a straightforward autobiographical account of his marriage, Kasher has acknowledged that it heavily influenced the album, though some of the relationship dynamics – such as infidelity – were not autobiographical. Reviewing Domestica, Pitchfork's Taylor Clark gave the album an...

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Musical style and influences

Cursive's music has been described as indie rock, post-hardcore, emo, and punk rock. Cursive's formative influences include such bands as Fugazi, Shudder to Think, Archers of Loaf, Brainiac, and Superchunk. In recent years, the band has also drawn on such influences as the Kinks and Queen.

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American indie rock band from Omaha, Nebraska, formed by Tim Kasher, Matt Maginn, & Stephen Pedersen in the spring of 1995 as an endeavor to "give music a serious try", after parting ways with Casey Caniglia who played drums for previous band Slowdown Virginia. Clint Schnase, who previously played with Pedersen in Smashmouth joined the band on Drums. The band's name came from a passage in a book by V. S. Naipaul, in which the British were forcing subjugated Indians to learn how to write English in cursive penmanship, symbolic of a pointless exercise with no value, and Kasher compares this to the band forcing music as a discipline, taking it seriously. In a result of Kasher's marriage and move to Portland, Oregon in 1998, the band broke up. However, Kasher's divorce only a year later in 1999 and return to Omaha prompted a reformation of the band. Pedersen had left Omaha to attend law school in North Carolina during the band's downtime, so Ted Stevens joined the band and filled Pedersen's previous role of Guitar and Backing Vocals. With a various ensemble of members over the years, both former and returning, Kasher, Maginn, and Stevens have been a long fronting core trio within the b Also known as: Cursive Presents: From Discogs (free to use). Their entry