Pitchfork

[Posted Tuesday, September 3rd, 2003 05:00:00 Pitchfork Central Time]

The band that Pitchfork loves to pretend isn't emo, Omaha's Cursive, have announced more tour dates to go along with the ridiculous amount of bar visits already logged this year. Having covered damn near all of the U.S.-- at least twice-- and Europe too, the Tim Kasher-led quintet will remain on the road through mid-November. This leaves only July and, as of now, December as counting against the band's union-mandated vacation time for 2003. Every last day of sick time was expended last year when Kasher punctured a lung and we breathlessly beat that news into the ground without once using a pun like the one just writ.

Cursive will be touring with a dirty plethora of bands so numerous that we nearly ran out of symbols in our key at the bottom of these tour dates. The first leg of the tour (through mid-October) will see the band joining The Blood Brothers, who are currently wetting the pants of indie rockers unfamiliar with Bad Brains. Eastern Youth, from Tokyo, will also share the stage for a number of these earlier dates. The Youth describe themselves as post-punk, but since they sing in Japanese (pretty much a death knell) we may have blown the translation from "we sound just like the Get Up Kids with Chef Chen Kenichi up front."

After the tour hits the West Coast, The Jealous Sound will replace The Blood Brothers. The Jealous Sound are from Los Angeles and (surprise, surprise) plays really sensitive-- dare we say e-m-o-tional-- rock music. They have recently, as proudly proclaimed by their publicist, been one of ten-- only ten-- bands that were "hand-picked" by Volkswagen and Apple to promote the Beetle and iPod, respectively, in the soon-to-be-wildly-popular-with-our-demographic "Pods Unite" campaign. It goes something like this: spend $20,000 on a car, get a $300 MP3 player.

New Yorkers please note that you can catch Cursive with the Wrens on September 22nd, at the Bowery Ballroom. Rumor has it that when Pitchfork editor-in-chief Ryan Schreiber heard the news that the Wrens were going to be opening, he imagined the Jerseyites as hot pants-clad Beyonces while drooling out of his North Clark Street office window. A whole section of Clark was later shut down because of the spectacle and Schreiber had to be revived by the guy in Sigur Rós. But I digress. Here are those tour dates:

09-10 Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock *
09-11 Grinnell, IA - Grinnell College *
09-12 Chicago, IL - Metro #
09-13 Detroit, MI - Majestic Theatre #
09-14 Columbus, OH - Little Brothers #
09-15 Pittsburgh, PA - Club Laga #
09-16 Buffalo, NY - Nietzsche's #
09-18 Boston, MA - Middle East #
09-17 Clinton, NY - Hamilton (w/ The Blood Brothers)
09-18 Boston, MA - Middle East #
09-19 Irvington, NJ - Cricket Club #
09-20 Philadelphia, PA - Trocadero #
09-21 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom #
09-22 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom (w/ The Wrens, Eastern Youth)
09-23 Washington, DC - Black Cat #
09-24 Richmond, VA - VCU / Alley Katz #
09-25 Carrboro, NC - Cats Cradle #
09-26 Charlotte, NC - Tremont Music Hall #
09-27 Atlanta, GA - Echo Lounge (w/ Eastern Youth)
09-28 Orlando, FL - The Social #
09-29 Orlando, FL - The Social #
10-01 Athens, GA - TBA #
10-02 Nashville, TN - Exit Inn #
10-03 St Louis, MO - Mississippi Nights #
10-04 Lawrence, KS - Bottleneck #
10-14 Denver, CO - Gothic Theatre %
10-15 Salt Lake City, UT - DV8 %
10-17 Seattle, WA - Graceland [two shows] %
10-18 Portland, OR - Nocturnal %
10-20 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill $
10-21 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall $
10-22 Los Angeles, CA - Henry Fonda $
10-23 San Diego, CA - The Scene $
10-24 Pomona, CA - Glasshouse $
11-03 Tempe, AZ - Nitas Hideaway +
11-04 El Paso, TX - Club 101 +
11-06 Houston, TX - Numbers +
11-07 Austin, TX - Emos +
11-08 Dallas, TX - Trees +

* with The Blood Brothers, Race For Titles
# with The Blood Brothers, Eastern Youth
% with The Blood Brothers, Criteria
$ with The Jealous Sound, Criteria
+ with The Jealous Sound, Still Life