September 29, 2018 - Cursive today shared their new song “It’s Gonna Hurt,” the third and final early single from their forthcoming new album, Vitriola. Of the moody, foreboding track -- a heady mix of angular guitars, haunting cello and synths, pulsating bass, and forceful drums -- singer/guitarist Tim Kasher says, “This song is about watching those closest to you as they seem to deliberately self-destruct. How we find it hard to forgive them for it, but also how we carry the blame for it”; listen now HERE. “It’s Gonna Hurt” follows first single “Life Savings” (“It's classic Cursive, with psychic nails of sound and Kasher's righteously spit anger, enriched by a guitar melody that breaks apart the rage.” - NPR Music) and second single “Under The Rainbow” (“a heavy hitter” - NYLON). Marking the band’s first new album since 2012 as well as their debut release on their own label, 15 Passenger, Vitriola will be arrive in stores next Friday, October 5th. Pre-order it now HERE.

Cursive will head out on tour mid-next month, beginning on October 18th in Kansas City, MO. The first, eastern leg of the tour will wrap up on November 18th in hometown Omaha, NE and the band will then begin their western run on January 19th in Boulder, CO. A current itinerary is below and includes a November 7th show at New York’s Irving Plaza and a January 31st show at Los Angeles’ Regent Theater. See all the upcoming tour dates here!

September 5, 2018 - Cursive today premiered new song “Under The Rainbow” via Stereogum alongside an interview with frontman Tim Kasher. Listen to the pummeling, anthemic track now HERE. “Under The Rainbow” is the second song released from the band’s forthcoming album Vitriola, out October 5, 2018 via their own label, 15 Passenger -- marking their first self-release for the label, as well as their first album since 2012. Pre-order the album now HERE. First single “Life Savings,” which premiered via an NPR Music feature, can also be heard HERE. 

August 8, 2018 - Cursive has announced their first new album in six years, Vitriola, will be released on October 5, 2018 via their own label, 15 Passenger and with their friends Big Scary Monsters in Europe. NPR Music premiered lead single “Life Savings” this morning alongside an interview with singer/guitarist Tim Kasher; listen to the song now HERE. A foreboding track that carries a heavy weight despite its soaring bridge, “Life Savings” sets the tone for the rest of Vitriola and in many ways encapsulates all things Cursive: seething vocals, angular and intertwining guitars, bone-quaking bass, and pounding drums -- which are courtesy of founding member Clint Schnase for the first time since 2006’s Happy Hollow. Vitriola is Cursive’s debut self-release of a new album through 15 Passenger and can be pre-ordered now HERE (and HERE for Europe).

Recorded at hometown Omaha, NE’s ARC Studios with Mike Mogis -- who last co-produced with Cursive on Happy Hollow -- Vitriola takes a different approach than the tightly woven conceptual albums of the band’s past. It is less rigidly themed and more responsive, and finds the band struggling with existentialism veering towards nihilism and despair; the ways in which society, much like a writer, creates and destroys; and an oncoming dystopia that feels eerily near at hand. There’s a palpable unease that wells beneath Vitriola’s simmering requiems and fist-shakers: at its core, the album is about a search for meaning that keeps coming up empty, and finding the will to keep going despite the fear of a dark future. The album directs frustration and anger not only at the universe at large and a modern society that seems to grow more confusing, unstable, and chaotic with each passing day, but also inwardly towards ourselves -- illustrating an uncommon self-awareness that’s become a hallmark of Kasher’s songwriting. “Vitriola was written as a reaction to an ulcer I now live with as a result of all the ‘vitriol’ seeping into our daily lives,” explains Kasher. “Rather than contributing to the anger, hopefully this record can be witnessed as a reflection of our collective anxieties, and perhaps offer a little catharsis.”

Sonically, Vitriola runs the gamut between rich, resonant melodicism, Hitchcockian anxiety (frequently courtesy of Patrick Newbery’s keys and Megan Siebe’s cello, an instrument used here again for the first time since The Ugly Organ), and powerful dynamics -- and no Cursive album would be complete without scream-along lyrics that make for unlikely anthems.

Cursive -- joined by touring drummer Pat Oakes -- will head out on a month-long tour of the U.S. this fall, beginning October 18 in Kansas City, MO. The tour will wrap up on November 18th with an Omaha show and includes an October 26 stop at The Fest 17 in Gainesville, FL and a November 7 stop at Irving Plaza in New York, NY. Meat Wave and Campdogzz -- their first non-Cursive signing to 15 Passenger that released a new album, In Rounds, last week -- will support on most shows. A current itinerary is below and more dates will be announced soon.

Cursive is: Tim Kasher (vocals/guitar), Ted Stevens (guitar/vocals), Matt Maginn (bass), Clint Schnase (drums), and Patrick Newbery (keys), with Megan Siebe on cello.

TRACKLIST:

1. Free To Be Or Not To Be You And Me    3:26
2. Pick Up The Pieces                                 3:25
3. It’s Gonna Hurt                                        5:32
4. Under The Rainbow                                3:19
5. Remorse                                                  3:24
6. Ouroboros                                                6:00
7. Everending                                              4:11
8. Ghost Writer                                            3:07
9. Life Savings                                             4:40
10. Noble Soldier/Dystopian Lament          7:28

Sometimes you find a recording artist you think is so cool, you can’t understand why more people haven’t heard of them already. You put them on all your mixtapes. You buy their record over and over again because you keep giving your personal copy away to friends. The Rare Coins Series was conceived to offer an established artist the opportunity to share one of their favorite artists with the rest of the world by way of a limited release split 12”.

As long time fans of all things in David Bazan’s orbit, 15 Passenger was overjoyed to bring him in for this inaugural Rare Coins release. And as discovering new talent is paramount to the series conceit, 15 Passenger has also become new fans of Sean Lane’s work and are honored to play a role in bringing his music to a wider audience.

David Bazan first met Sean Lane a decade ago while Sean was working at American Music in Seattle. Sean had given him an EP of a band he was playing in and Bazan was immediately struck by Sean’s percussion. A handful of years later, Sean caught Bazan’s attention again when he started recording and performing on an original instrument he built from the frame of a child’s bike; custom made bell cymbals, springs, flatwound guitar strings both plucked and bowed, and a plethora of effects pedals. 

Lane has played in Perfume Genius and Yppah, and is currently on tour with Bazan in his latest incarnation of Pedro The Lion.

Lane contributes five ambient pieces that feel like a soundtrack to a mysterious, foggy night along Puget Sound. Off kilter rhythms and supernatural synths drift beneath moaning saxophones and lonely chimes. On “Invisible”, Lane lends abstract vocals to express a yearning to disappear amongst the hectic routine of daily life.

The four songs provided by Bazan are playful, provocative, and reminiscent of a leaner rock and roll style found in Bazan’s earlier work with Pedro the Lion. His signature rhythm and melody is found all over these tunes, as he handled all the instrumentation himself. These songs are awesome, amongst the finest stuff he’s ever written. “Opposite Soul” is a muscular, brooding pop song that explores the fundamental differences between “us” and “us”  in today’s increasingly partisan world.

15 Passenger Records has released their first Rare Coins Series with David Bazan and Sean Lane, on April 6, 2018. Available on gold vinyl, limited to 1,000. Order it now here!

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Preorder Tim Kasher’s debut feature film, No Resolution, for $9.99 on iTunes for a chance to win a private screening of the film in your town with Tim*.

Invite some friends, make some popcorn and watch No Resolution with Tim at your favorite bar, theater or even on your couch! Tim will do his best not to nervously gesticulate the entire time as you quietly judge his work, and afterward he’ll play a short set for you and your friends (or just you! But hopefully not just you: that’s kind of weird).

But WAIT WAIT WAIT, there’s MORE. Maybe you didn’t win the weird, potentially uncomfortable prize of Tim encroaching your personal space (or, perhaps you don’t live in the continental United States): there will also be 5 RUNNER UP WINNERS who will receive a LIMITED EDITION BLU RAY of the film with unique artwork made by 15 Passenger, hand numbered and signed by Tim. There is currently no plan to make DVDs or Blu Rays of this movie, so these are truly limited indeed.

Entering is simple! Preorder the movie No Resolution on iTunes before it’s release date on Feb 13, 2018. Once you receive your receipt from iTunes please forward to info@15Passenger.com, and you are entered to win! We realize iTunes may not send the receipt until they deliver the movie, so please forward your iTunes receipt by end of day February 23rd. If you'd like to send a screenshot in the meantime, we will remind you to send us the receipt after release date if needed!

*Screening contest is limited to the continental United States.
*Blu-Ray contest is worldwide.

PRE-ORDER HERE

Tim Kasher – singer/guitarist for bands Cursive and The Good Life – will release his third solo album No Resolution on March 3, 2017 via 15 Passenger, the newly launched label owned and run by Cursive. The first song from the new album, “An Answer For Everything,” debuted today via CLRVYNT and is an alternately sweeping and cadent waltz marked by aching, orchestral crescendos. Of the song, Kasher said, “One of my favorite stories from the record, it’s about a couple reminiscing of the early days of their relationship when they felt so confident and self-assured, before so much doubt and uncertainty bogged down their ability to communicate.” Listen HERE
 
Tim Kasher debuted a second new song, “Break Me Open,” off his forthcoming third solo album No Resolution this morning via Stereogum. The track’s “…spare yet energetic guitar balladry bolstered by a string section” can also now be heard HERE!

No Resolution is now available for pre-order via the 15 Passenger website, iTunes and Amazon; “An Answer For Everything” will come as an instant grat download with all pre-orders. The album will also be released on blue with white splatter pattern vinyl for a limited run of 1,000, which will be available through the 15 Passenger Bandcamp store, records stores and at Kasher’s upcoming live shows. A clear with red and yellow splatter pattern vinyl version of No Resolution will be exclusive to independent record stores as well, also limited to a run of only 1,000.
 
Known for pushing musical boundaries throughout his career – whether he’s switching up sounds between his bands and solo LPs, crafting intricate concept albums (two of which – Cursive’s 2003 LP The Ugly Organ and 2012 LP I Am Gemini – featured play-like stage directions), or transforming songs originally conceived as a soundtrack for his self-penned screenplay into a standalone album (The Good Life’s 2007 release Help Wanted Nights) – No Resolution is the natural continuation of Kasher’s constantly evolving body of work. It is his most cinematic creation, a moving and cathartic collection of soundscapes that feels more like a suite of movements than a standard pop album, complete with instrumental breaks conjoining the nine songs. Fittingly, the 15 pieces will be featured in Kasher’s directorial debut film of the same name, which he also wrote, to be released later this year. Across the album’s strong story, the characters – an engaged couple on the brink of a break up – grapple with the specific and the broad, including the restlessness of adulthood and smothering external pressures; relationships in various states of transition and the walls built within them; distrust, indecision, and despair; and the existential anxiety that drives a deep need to leave a mark on the world.
 
No Resolution was written throughout 2013-15 and recorded at The Hobby Shop (with Andrew ‘mudrock’ Murdock) and at Kasher’s home in Los Angeles, CA, the Shape Shoppe in Chicago, IL (with Nick Broste), and at ARC Studios in Omaha, NE (with Ben Brodin). Filled with lush arrangements that include piano, vibraphone, organ, trumpet, synths, and various strings, the album is some of the most beautiful and finely orchestral music from Kasher, yet it is also his most subdued and understated work. A full track listing and cover artwork are below.
 
The album will be the first release from 15 Passenger, the new INgrooves-distributed label founded and run by the members of Cursive: Kasher, bassist Matt Maginn, and guitarist/vocalist Ted Stevens. In addition to No Resolution this winter, the label plans to reissue Cursive’s entire catalog beginning with their 1997 debut LP Such Blinding Stars For Starving Eyes and their 1998 LP The Storms of Early Summer: Semantics of Song in fall of 2017. More news on the label and its forthcoming releases will be announced soon.
 
Kasher will head to Europe in early March for a month-long tour (UK dates TBA) before coming home for a three-week run throughout the western U.S. All U.S. shows will be with a full band that includes cello, violin, and vibraphone. A current itinerary is below and more dates will be announced soon.

Tim Kasher tour dates: