“The Avalanche of Our Demise” official video is out now! Directed by our friends at activist art collective INDECLINE, it pairs the song’s sharp edges with a pointed message about income inequality and the systems that keep people from opportunity.
Watch the new video now at the link in our bio.
From our album Devourer, out now on Run For Cover Records .
@thisisindecline #cursivetheband #devourer #runforcover
Hey! I, Tim Kasher, am touring this Spring - out supporting the ever so unique album, “Sponges Of Experience”, an experiment wherein I wrote an entire album over a 4 day weekend!
I’ll be performing plenty of hits and deep cuts from the past 30 odd years, SWIPE ➡️ if you’d like to see what I’ve been preparing for the setlist! DON’T SWIPE if you’d prefer it to be a surprise!
I’m heading out with @oldcanesband (Chris Crisci of @theappleseedcast ) and playing with plenty of very cool local artists in various cities - come on out!
Playing 4 shows with @thursdayband in the Northeast!
“Sponges Of Experience” comes out May 22 on vinyl and CD - not on streamers, baby!
Manipulated photo @byericalauren thank you!
5/23 Lawrence - Bottleneck
5/24 St Louis - Good Strangers Coffee
5/26 Cleveland - Grog Shop
5/27 Pittsburgh - Bottlerocket
5/28 Buffalo - Neitzche’s
5/29 Philadelphia - PhilaMOCA
5/30 Troy - The Hangar On Hudson
5/31 Garwood, NJ - Crossroads (matinee!)
6/1 New London - Telegraph Autonomous Zone
6/2 Portsmouth - The Press Room
6/3 Boston - O’Brien’s Pub
6/4 New York, NY - Rocks Off concert cruise w/ Thursday!
6/6 Brattleboro, VT - Stone Church w/ Thursday
6/7 Woodstock - Bearsville Theater w/ Thursday
6/8 Washington DC - Songbyrd
6/9 Durham, NC - Stanczyk’s
6/10 Atlanta - The Earl
6/11 Jacksonville - Jack Rabbits
6/12 Tampa - New World Brewery
6/13 Orlando - The Social
6/15 New Orleans - Gasa Gasa
6/16 Houston - Wonky Power
6/17 San Antonio - Paper Tiger
6/18 Austin - Mohawk (inside)
6/19 Denton, TX - Rubber Gloves
6/21 Omaha - Reverb
DEEP CUTS - “Bloody Murderer” off The Ugly Organ
Just a real nice, real good song that got overlooked by a bunch of other songs on the record. I really appreciate the guitar/cello breakdown that ushers in the end. How baroque??
We never played this song live until we did an Ugly Organ celebration tour in 2014. And that’s pretty much the only time you’ll see this song on a setlist: when we’re playing The Ugly Organ. Enjoy!!
Our guy @timkasher is heading out to play some shows this May/June in support of his Tim Kasher’s home phone record, “Sponges Of Experience” out May 22!
Touring with @oldcanesband !
Additional dates supporting @thursdayband !
5/23 Lawrence - Bottleneck
5/24 St Louis - Good Strangers Coffee
5/25 Bloomington, IN - The Bishop
5/26 Cleveland - Grog Shop
5/27 Pittsburgh - Bottlerocket
5/29 Philadelphia - PhilaMOCA
5/30 Troy - The Hangar On Hudson
5/31 Garwood, NJ - Crossroads (matinee!)
6/1 New London - Telegraph Autonomous Zone
6/2 Portsmouth - The Press Room
6/3 Boston - O’Brien’s Pub
6/4 New York, NY - Rocks Off concert cruise w/ Thursday!
6/6 Brattleboro, VT - Stone Church w/ Thursday
6/7 Woodstock - Bearsville Theater w/ Thursday
6/8 Washington DC - Songbyrd
6/9 Durham, NC - Stanczyk’s
6/10 Atlanta - The Earl
6/11 Jacksonville - Jack Rabbits
6/12 Tampa - New World Brewery
6/13 Orlando - The Social
6/15 New Orleans - Gasa Gasa
6/18 Austin - Mohawk (inside)
6/19 Denton, TX - Rubber Gloves
6/21 Omaha - Reverb
On sale now!
DEEP CUTS - Excerpts From Various Notes Strewn Around The Bedroom Of April Connolly, Feb 24, 1997
What a mouthful. This song was released on “8 Teeth To Eat You”, a split we did with the Japanese band, Eastern Youth, back in 2002. These songs were all part of the Ugly Organ sessions, and this song very well could’ve ended up on The Ugly Organ but we thought it would be a good nugget to include on this split instead.
Props to old bud Gretta Cohn ( @grettamindy ) for leading on cello on this track!!
DEEP CUTS - Making Friends And Acquaintances
Not as easy to pull a ‘deep cut’ off of Domestica, as it was generally well received, but here we are with Making Friends And Acquaintances. DID YOU KNOW this song was initially intended for the band Braces which existed in the late 90’s? It was a band made of Tim Kasher (hi) Clint Schnase and Kim Heiman, they only recorded 5 songs and that was that. After they disbanded, this song was cherry picked to help fill out what would become Domestica.
DEEP CUTS - Absence Makes The Day Go Longer
This is the final track on Cursive’s “The Storms Of Early Summer: Semantics Of Song”. Wow, what a mouthful, both album and song title. That’s the 90’s for ya.
DID YOU KNOW: this was intended to be the opening track on our first album, “Such Blinding Stars For Starving Eyes”!! There was a mix up at the studio and we lost the recording, so instead of re-recording it we figured it was meant to be and moved forward without this song. Crazy, as this song - at the time, anyway - really felt like it defined who we were and what our mission was, so of course we wanted it to open our debut album! Strange that it got cast off to the final track of album two, but we were fickle young adults and had moved on from it, I’m sure.
Anyway, we still love this song, Check it out if unfamiliar xx
DEEP CUTS - The Knowledgable Hasbeens
This lil guy was initially a b-side on our very first 7”, dubbed the Disruption 7” for having two songs on it with the word disruption in the title. I don’t think this song really ever made the rounds… I’m sure we used to play it live back in the day, I mean, we only would’ve had a handful of songs to choose from.
It found new life on the “Difference Between Houses And Homes” comp record we released in… 2005? Ish? But I fear that even on a comp of b-sides it was still… a deep cut.
But I’ve always loved this song!! The earliest taste of harsh self-deprecation and the beginnings of a career in taking myself to task.
And hey, that’s Matt Maginn singing the chorus!! You don’t get to hear that every day.
DEEP CUT - “Dirt Of The Vineyard” off our debut album, Such Blinding Stars For Starving Eyes
Was always a fan of this song. I recall us not being sure if it should make the record because it was so low key. We didn’t really know what we were doing. Still don’t?
When’s the last time you checked out this record???
It’s finally here!! It’s our very special bud Conor’s birthday today and all he wants is for all of us to go to @veeps and watch this incredible film of @brighteyesofficial and Cursive playing Higher Ground in Vermont!!
If you aren’t able to watch this very moment, it will still be available for 3 days after purchase.
ALL PROCEEDS BENEFIT LGBTQ+ community organizations via the Poison Oak Project !!!!
Link in bio!!
10 days away from the global premiere of ‘An Evening With Bright Eyes & Cursive’ (and Conor’s birthday)! Join us? Tickets on sale now.
📅 Feb 15, 2pm ET on Veeps
🎟️ Tickets in bio
💙 All proceeds to the Poison Oak Project
