Nov 01, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Cursive have announced headline U.S. tour dates for December 2022 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of their third studio album, Domestica. More

Feb 21, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Cursive frontman Tim Kasher has announced the release of his fourth solo studio album, Middling Age, which will be out on April 15 via 15 Passenger. He has also shared a self-directed video for the album’s lead single, “I Don’t Think About You.” More

Oct 11, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Elbow have released a new album, Giants of All Sizes, today via Polydor/Verve Label Group and it’s our Album of the Week. Big Thief‘s Two Hands, on 4AD, is our close runner-up. Find more info on both albums below. More

Oct 01, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Cursive have announced a new album, Get Fixed, and it’s due out very soon (next Friday, October 11). They have also shared a new song from it, “Stranded Satellite.” The album includes three songs the band has shared in the last month: “Barricades,” “Black Hole Town,” and “Marigolds.” More

May 01, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Cursive released a new album, Vitriola, last October via the band’s own label, 15 Passenger. Now the band have shared a video for “Pick Up the Pieces.” Frontman Tim Kasher directed the clip, which in a press release he says “works as a foil to the more cynical song.” More

Oct 05, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

This week we have a tie for Album of the Week, with both Madeline Kenney‘s Perfect Shapes and Phosphorescent‘s C’est La Vie taking the top spot. Below is info on both albums.

Sep 28, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

We tend to avoid including cover versions in our Songs of the Week list, as they are not truly new songs, but this week we have included two notable ones in our main list. We also rarely include live songs in our Top 10 songs, but have made a big exception this week. More

Sep 26, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Cursive are releasing a new album, Vitriola, on October 5 via the band’s own label, 15 Passenger. Now they have shared another song from the album, “It’s Gonna Hurt.” The band has also announced some new tour dates. More

Sep 05, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Cursive are releasing a new album, Vitriola, on October 5 via the band’s own label, 15 Passenger. Previously they shared its first single, “Life Savings.” Now they have shared another song from the album, “Under the Rainbow.” Listen below. More

Aug 08, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Cursive have announced a new album, Vitriola, and shared its first single, “Life Savings.” Vitriola is due out October 5 via the band’s own label, 15 Passenger. Listen to “Life Savings” below via NPR. Also below are the album’s tracklist and cover art. More

Sep 09, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our 2016 Protest Issue (out September, October, and into November), which is out now both digitally and on newsstands. We’ve done a Protest Issue every U.S. Presidential election year since 2004 and as before this issue features articles examining the intersection of music and politics and photo shoots with musicians holding protest signs of their own making. Then in mid-October we will be launching our charity Protest Auction, in which we auction off all the protest signs in the issue, with all profits going to the American Cancer Society. More

Nov 06, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Cursive, who released their seventh full-length album I Am Gemini last year, have announced that they will take part in a three-week homtown residency in Omaha, NE this December at The Waiting Room. More

Aug 28, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Best known for fronting Omaha indie rock veteran Cursive, Tim Kasher will release his sophomore album Adult Film this fall. More

Sep 04, 2012 By Wendy Lynch Redfern

On Sunday September 2, the nineth annual FYF Fest went down at Los Angeles’ State Historic Park in Downtown L.A. We sent photographer Robert Redfield down to cover the action. Check out his shots of Atlas Sound,Beirut, Cursive, Desparecidos, Dinosaur Jr., Father John Misty, Glass Candy, Liars, Wild Nothing, and Yeasayer here. More

Mar 13, 2012 By Margot Cooper Gruen

Cymbals Eat Guitars have premiered a video for “Definite Darkness” from their sophomore release Lenses Alien, which was released in August via Barsuk. Watch the video here. More

Feb 01, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Indie rock veterans Cursive continue to give up the goods with their forthcoming new album I Am Gemini, releasing yet another new cut called “Wowowow.” More

Jan 16, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

After announcing a massive number of tour dates and previewing their forthcoming work I Am Gemini with the track “The Sun and Moon,” Cursive have unveiled yet another track from the record called “The Cat and Mouse.” More

Jan 04, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

After releasing “The Sun and Moon,” the first track off their upcoming concept album I Am Gemini, Cursive have announced a plethora of North American tour dates that will kick off in February. More

Jan 02, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Recently announcing the release of their seventh studio album, I Am Gemini, veteran rock group Cursive have decided to give fans a taste of their ambitious, conceptual work with the track, “The Sun and Moon.” More

Nov 16, 2011 By Laura Studarus

Cursive has announced an ambitious new concept album called I Am Gemini (due February 21 via Saddle Creek). We have the details and forthcoming tour dates. More

Jul 27, 2011 By Margot Cooper Gruen

Omaha-based indie rock outfit Cursive have announced that they are back in the studio working on the follow-up to 2009 Saddle Creek release, Mama, I’m Swollen. More

Nov 30, 2010 By John Everhart

After an extended hiatus, Bright Eyes are back with a brand new LP titled The People’s Key due in early 2011. We have the details. More

Oct 16, 2009 By Wendy Lynch Redfern

Cursive will kick off their tour on November 24th at The Bottleneck in Lawrence, KS, continuing on with dates in Texas, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas and Missouri. More

Jun 29, 2009 By Wendy Lynch Redfern

Cursive played a sold-out show at The El Rey in Los Angeles, CA Sunday night. More

Apr 16, 2009 By Laura Studarus

Cursive set to release a split 10”, tour. More

Nov 10, 2016 By Matt Fink

There’s a quote—now considered apocryphal—from legendary film critic Pauline Kael that for years stood as damning evidence of the extent to which people could exist in their own cultural and social bubbles. More

Jun 16, 2009 By Frank Valish

With Mama, I’m Swollen, Cursive has written the most polarizing album of their career. The band’s sixth album overall follows the vicious, raving song cycle about religion and angst that was 2006’s Happy Hollow, and its predecessor, the widely lauded masterpiece, 2003’s The Ugly Organ. But unlike those two works, this album has drawn both praise and critical disdain. Despite featuring some of songwriter/vocalist Tim Kasher’s most personal lyrics involving themes of growing older and confronting the realities of adulthood, it remains an album on which many fans and critics are split. Under the Radar caught up with Tim Kasher on day seven of what seems like a nonstop spring and summer tour to talk about fans, critics, Mama, and how to remain vibrant in an industry that forever compares artists with their most recognizable work. More

Oct 10, 2018 By J. Pace

There is a subset of Cursive fans for whom 2003’s The Ugly Organ remains one of the most vital and visceral indie rock offerings this side of the millennium. Pretty cool for said subset to scroll through the preemptive press on Vitriola and see a few mentions of it. More

Feb 22, 2012 By J. Pace

I Am Gemini finds Cursive rediscovering both the fractured riffing of their earliest albums and the grand conceptual bent of albums such as The Ugly Organ, bolstered by the big, heavy production talents of Matt Bayles (Mastodon, Isis, The Sword) and the big, heavy thematic inclinations of frontman Tim Kasher, who whipped up a little two-act play for the occasion. More