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- KCOU Presents: Cursive
Mojo's
Friday, December 11 at 8:30pm - KCOU's 46th Birthday Party w/ ...
The Blue Note
Thursday, October 29 at 9:30pm - KCOU Presents: Grizzly Bear
The Blue Note
Thursday, October 1 at 8:00pm - KCOU Splashdown
Tiger Grotto
Thursday, September 3 at 8:00pm - KCOU General Interest Meeting
Allen Auditorium (Room 110), Arts &...
Thursday, August 27 at 6:00pm - KCOU's Back to School Show w/ ...
The Blue Note
Monday, August 24 at 7:30pm - KCOU Presents Del tha Funky Ho...
The Blue Note
Monday, May 11 at 3:50pm - KCOU Presents Mac Lethal
Mojo's
Saturday, May 9 at 8:30pm - KCOU Presents Murder By Death
Mojo's
Wednesday, May 6 at 7:00pm - KCOU's Springfest featuring of...
The Blue Note
Friday, April 24 at 8:00pm
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KCOU Rally 10/8/08Created on October 10, 2008 at 8:43pm
KCOU Presents: Cursive w/ Capgun Coup and The Foundry Field Recordings Doors @ 8:30pm Tickets: $14/$16 “Ever since Cursive burst onto the music scene with their 1997 debut album, the band has consistently and continually churned out heady albums heralded by critics and fans alike. ...
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KCOU Presents: Cursive w/ Capgun Coup and The Foundry Field Recordings
Doors @ 8:30pm
Tickets: $14/$16
"Ever since Cursive burst onto the music scene with their 1997 debut album, the band has consistently and continually churned out heady albums heralded by critics and fans alike. Wrestling with life’s miseries and myster...ies, Mama, I’m Swollen is an album brimming with the universal, questioning the human condition, social morality, and the “Peter Pan Syndrome” of grown men.
After the underground success of their third album, Cursive’s Domestica, in 2000, the band followed up with what would prove to be their breakthrough album, The Ugly Organ, in 2003. A self-aware conceptual record about artistic constraints (or lack thereof), relationships, sex, and the intersection of all three, it landed them on the Arts section cover of The New York Times and accolades from Rolling Stone, Alternative Press, Blender, Magnet, Esquire, and Spin – as well as a place on many year-end best lists. Cursive spent the next year and a half touring the album relentlessly, headlining the Plea For Peace tour and playing Coachella before being handpicked by The Cure for their Curiosa tour in late 2004.
Exhausted and admittedly daunted by the task of following up a hit record, Cursive went on an indefinite hiatus before reemerging with the adventurous Happy Hollow in 2006. Lauded as a triumphant comeback and evolution of the band by publications such as Alternative Press, Spin, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, and Blender, the album examined small-town angst, American dreams, and religion. Midway through touring in early 2007, original drummer Clint Schnase amicably departed the band. After a short break following a national tour with Mastodon and Against Me! and feeling somewhat conflicted about proceeding forward without him, Tim Kasher (vocals, guitar), Matt Maginn (bass, vocals), and Ted Stevens (guitar, vocals) decided to begin writing – only without the ambitions of necessarily turning it into the next Cursive record. Shortly thereafter, Cornbread Compton (formerly of Engine Down) officially signed on as drummer by this time and what musically unfolded from this newly realized foursome was indeed…Cursive.
Conceived together in intermittent rehearsals as the band is now spread out across the west and Midwest (Kasher and Compton live in Los Angeles, CA; Maginn in Columbia, MO; and Stevens in Omaha, NE), they road-tested and refined the new material for Mama, I’m Swollen largely via a few shows this past spring and summer. The band’s new process resulted in a more enthusiastic and focused set of ten songs to record when they entered Mike Mogis’ ARC Studios in Omaha, NE in the fall, producing the album themselves alongside AJ Mogis.
Kasher is a storyteller, a weaver of songs that can read more like short stories or fables than the standard verse-chorus-verse. Mama, I’m Swollen finds him at his literate, lyrical best, where references to both Poe (“Going To Hell”) and Pinocchio (“Donkeys”) are intertwined seamlessly within his own tales of characters grappling with the moral quandary of being human, adult, and playing a role in ‘civilized’ society. Musically, Cursive is as smart and sophisticated as ever, the songs’ rousing, cerebral content complemented by moments alternately hushed and exhilarating (the cathartic “From The Hips,” the noisily melodic romp “I Couldn’t Love You”), eerily moody and jaunty (the almost prayerlike “Let Me Up,” “Mama, I’m Swollen”) – moments that often occur within the very same song. From the charging bass lines of album opener “In The Now” to the quiet first chords of confessional closer “What Have I Done?”, Mama, I’m Swollen is a natural progression that remains distinctively Cursive: a fluid amalgamation of the band’s sound past, present, and future – a band that both your punk kid sister and English lit grad student best friend can call their own.
Whew. Mama, I’m Swollen is also one very simple thing: an amazing Cursive record, proving yet again why–after all these years–the quartet remains one of the most exciting and inventive rock bands today.
Cursive plans to spend the majority of spring and summer 2009 on the road. "
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Time:8:30PM Friday, December 11th
Location:Mojo's
KCOU 88.1 FM Thanks to everyone who came out for Rock the Wrench! Congrats to Envy the Cookbook (1st) and Nick and the Fireflies (2nd)!!!
KCOU 88.1 FM Go to Rock the Wrench TONIGHT at Jesse Wrench Auditorium (Memorial Union) and vote to decide who will walk away with the big trophy and $500! The first 222 will get their voting wristbands that will also qualify them to win prizes throughout the night. The event is FREE and doors open at 7 p.m.
KCOU and the Student Union Programming Board (SUPB) present Rock the Wrench - the biggest Mizzou student music competition of the Fall Semester...
KCOU 88.1 FM Tune in this evening at 8:30 for a live acoustic set with ROBERT SARAZIN BLAKE (all the way from Bellingham, WA)! Also, be sure to catch him later tonight when he performs at Top Ten Wines here in Columbia
KCOU and the Student Union Programming Board (SUPB) present Rock the Wrench - the biggest Mizzou student music competition of the Fall Semester. The online voting portion has begun and the acts will need your support to make it to the main event...
KCOU 88.1 FM needs your help to win the 2009 mtvU Woodie Award for Best College Radio Station - we're in the final 5, but need your help to be #1. Voting ends today, so help us out at http://kcou.fm/vote/
KCOU 88.1 FM It's the final countdown... http://kcou.fm/vote/ - It's do or die, we could win it all or go home with nothing! It all ends today and we need your help to cross the finish line. Your votes count, so VOTE VOTE VOTE for KCOU!
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Help KCOU win the Best College Radio Station 2009 Woodie Award - We made the Top 5, but we need you to get us all the way to #1! You can vote as many times as you want and the deadline for voting is November 9th. Go to kcou.fm/vote to show your support!
KCOU 88.1 FM Final hours! VOTE, VOTE, VOTE! http://kcou.fm/vote/
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Help KCOU win the Best College Radio Station 2009 Woodie Award - We made the Top 5, but we need you to get us all the way to #1! You can vote as many times as you want and the deadline for voting is November 9th. Go to kcou.fm/vote to show your support!
KCOU is the place for coverage of the 2009 Election. Our live team coverage brings you up-to-the-minute results, both on the air and online at at KCOU’s online election headquarters. Will the results be a referendum on President Obama’s first year in office? Ou...
KCOU 88.1 FM Thanks to you, KCOU made it to the mtvU 2009 college radio woodie award Top 5! To help us get to #1 keep voting until 11/9 - http://bit.ly/votekcou
KCOU 88.1 FM It's the final hours before the top 5 are announced... VOTE for KCOU to make the next mtvU woodie award cut! we need your help! - http://bit.ly/votekcou
KCOU’s 46th Birthday Party w/ White Rabbits, Suckers and Glass Ghost Thursday, Oct. 29 at The Blue Note Doors @ 9:30 pm Tickets: $10 “The White Rabbits began in Columbia, MO, in 2004, when college students Greg Roberts and Stephen Patterson bonded while working at a local record store. Mo...
