1. Timothy J Kasher was born on August 19,1974 and is an American musician from Omaha, Nebraska, and is the frontman of indie rock groups Cursive and the Good Life, both of which are on the Omaha-based record label Saddle Creek Records.
16 Facts About Tim Kasher
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The bands released two albums, described as full of emotion and distortion, before disbanding in 1998 as Tim Kasher moved to Portland, Oregon, after getting married.
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Domestica showed this version of Cursive to have a tight-knit, hard-rock sound with the addition of Stevens as well as Tim Kasher's newfound focus on introspective, storytelling focused lyrics.
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Cursive has subsequently recorded and released three more studio albums, concept albums - a style that Tim Kasher began loosely with The Storms of Early Summer: Semantics of Song and developed full-blown with Domestica.
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Tim Kasher wanted to experiment with different types of lyrics and melodies.
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Tim Kasher released Novena on a Nocturn under the name the Good Life on Better Looking Records in 2000, five months after Cursive's Domestica.
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Tim Kasher recruited Ryan Fox, Roger Lewis, and Stefanie Drootin-Senseney and released Album of the Year in 2004.
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Tim Kasher released two albums with Cursive and two solo albums before reconvening the Good Life in late 2013.
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Pitchfork's Taylor Clark once described Tim Kasher's singing as "perhaps the worst great voice in indie rock," noting his lack of ease in singing with a range and a deficiency in enunciation.
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Tim Kasher's voice is commonly recognized as a signature part of Cursive's sound.
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Tim Kasher's songwriting receives similar attention, particularly 2003's The Ugly Organ, which took an introspective meta view on the songwriting process itself.
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In 2007, Tim Kasher moved from Omaha to Los Angeles, California.
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Tim Kasher has an undergraduate degree in English, with a minor in Philosophy.
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Tim Kasher has stated that if he was not pursuing music full-time, he would have become an English professor, teaching writing or literature.
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Tim Kasher is the youngest of six children, with four older sisters and one older brother.
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In 2015, Tim Kasher married his long-term girlfriend Gwynedd Stuart, the managing editor at Sporked.