Cursive

Indie rock from the heartland

A A A Comments By Jill Koch Thursday, Jan 30 2003

With its fourth album set for a March 4 release, Cursive is sitting in the driver's seat of the monster truck, fueled by Saddle Creek Records, that is Omaha's not-so-underground rock scene – and the post-hard-core-indie rockers have a bristly case of road rage.

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Scheduled to perform with Race for Titles on Sunday, February 2. Doors open at 8 p.m. Tickets are $7; log on to www.ticketweb.com to purchase or call 480-966-7715.

Nita's Hideaway, 3300 South Price in Tempe

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Emo? More like screamo. In "Art Is Hard," from the forthcoming The Ugly Organ, feverish front man Tim Kasher sings, "If at first you don't, you don't succeed/You gotta re-create your misery." While the critically commended band is at last becoming acquainted with the concept of commercial success, Kasher is by now so accustomed to re-creating his misery that he can't stop himself. Witness "Sink to the Beat": "I'll try to make this perfectly clear/I'm so transparent I disappear/These words I lyrically defecate/Upon songs I boldly claim to create."

Yikes. Credit Gretta Cohn's cello for at least bringing some smoothing melody to the madness.

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