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This is a fan made site dedicated to the music and history of the band Cursive and related projects.
To visit the official Cursive band website, please visit https://www.cursivearmy.com/
To visit their official record label, please visit https://15passenger.com/15-passenger
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Cursive is an American indie rock band from Omaha, Nebraska. The band was formed in 1995 by Tim Kasher, Matt Maginn, Steve Pedersen (all formerly of the band Slowdown Virginia), and drummer Clint Schnase. In 1997, they released Such Blinding Stars for Starving Eyes. After a couple years of touring, the band broke up in 1998. They “posthumously” released The Storms of Early Summer: Semantics of Song in the fall of that year.
A year later, in the summer of 1999, the band re-formed. Pedersen had started law school and later formed The White Octave, so Ted Stevens (formerly of Lullaby for the Working Class) stepped in and joined the band in 2000. In that year their album Domestica, a concept album, gained them much attention from fans and critics. Cursive added Gretta Cohn (on cello) in 2001, and the strings added complementary sounds to that summer’s EP Burst and Bloom. Saddle Creek Records released their next album The Ugly Organ in 2003. After years of extensive touring, the band went on hiatus, with no specified return date. Saddle Creek Records put out a compilation album of unreleased songs and B-sides, The Difference Between Houses and Homes, on August 9, 2005. In mid-2005, Gretta left the band to pursue other musical opportunities.
After Cursive’s hiatus, their follow up album to The Ugly Organ was released on August 22, 2006, bearing the title “Happy Hollow“. On this album fans could hear that the cello sound was replaced by brass instruments, adding a whole new dynamic to the music. Several tours later, Cursive’s next album, Mama, I’m Swollen, was released on March 10, 2009 on Saddle Creek Records. Three days later, the band made their network television debut on Late Show with David Letterman, playing “From The Hips”.
On the 16th November 2011, the band announced that the follow-up to Mama, I’m Swollen would be called I Am Gemini and this album released on February 21, 2012.
It then took a few years until the band surprised everyone by releasing their album Vitriola on October 05, 2018. The cello was added to their music again, this time done by Megan Siebe. It was a strong album and was received with great praise.
Just a year later, on October 11, 2019, another new album was released, Get Fixed. This surprised many fans worldwide. Surviving the pandemic, Cursive is still going strong and touring a lot of dates in the United States. At the moment, a new album titled Devourer will be released on 13 September 2024.