Every Thursday, the Paste staff and contributors will choose their five favorite songs of the week, awarding one entry a ...

URGH is not among the onomatopoeia I’d exclaim upon learning a new Mandy, Indiana album is on the way — oooooh is more like it — but it is the title of said album. The follow-up to the Manchester band ...

Today is Trans Day of Visibility, and Evan Greer and Ryan Cassat have marked the occasion with a new fired-up protest song for trans rights. BRIGHT EYES & CURSIVE – “RECLUSE I DON’T HAVE TO LOVE” ...

Musicians tend to soften with age. It's the natural way of things. Bands usually start as collectives of friends with fires in their bellies, but as time passes there tends to be less fire and more ...

On Friday, a respectable showing of locals with a taste for furious sadness (as opposed to the much less glamorous sad furiousness) braved the cold and filed into Paper Tiger to catch Cursive’s first ...

The stage was brightly lit with the black stenciled numbers “400” beaming behind the instruments and microphone stands as a soft hum came from the speakers at the 400 Bar, Friday March 23, as Omaha ...

James Brown may have been the hardest-working man in show business, but Tim Kasher certainly deserves some consideration for that honor in the emo/post-hardcore business. As the frontman for Cursive ...

Cursive have released three singles in the past month -- "Barricades," "Black Hole Town," and "Marigolds," -- which naturally made us suspect that the indie-rock vets were up to something. Welp, today ...

Tim Kasher recognized at an early age that time has a way of dulling the edges of creativity and stripping songwriters of their emotional potency, especially in the realm of rock music. And that's why ...

During the underground rock explosion of the late-’80s to mid-’90s, new scenes seemed to pop up every couple years—Athens, Minneapolis, Chapel Hill and Seattle. The most unlikely was perhaps Omaha, ...