While seeing a full Cursive show now may seem like a rarer treat than in some previous years, the truth is that Cursive hasn't really been a full-time band in over a decade. Despite landing on the Billboard charts with every album since The Ugly Organ and seemingly releasing a new record every three years up until I Am Gemini, the group has never actually planned anything beyond the immediate future since 2003. As far as possible upcoming records go, don't expect any filler albums of half-hearted releases. Cursive is cool with playing the material they have for the fans that pack their headlining shows and the thousands of others who turn out to see them at festivals, so a new release will only happen if they've got something worthwhile to say.

"I was always surprised we even hit the three-year mark," Maginn says. "I feel like we would have no plans once the last record was done, so I was always shocked."

"The only time we were actually consistently a band was Domestica through The Ugly Organ," Kasher adds. "Ever since then, we'll do a record and be like 'We might not do another one.' Then we reconvene later and see how everyone feels about it. The most precious thing to us is our catalogue. We don't want to taint it or ruin it, so we're very careful about each thing we release."

On Thursday and Friday of that weekend, Cursive gave their fans a taste of just about everything from their seven records (including all of the fan favorites and a heavy dose of The Ugly Organ, because they're not some pricks who won't play their biggest songs at festivals). Although Thursday night might've been a more intimate set for the band's diehard fans, Friday evening featured a crowd dotted with shirtless strongmen picking up acrobatic ladies in full Ren Faire outfits and jugglers tossing hula hoops with sticks. It was the kind of setting neither Cursive nor their fans will likely soon forget, even if the passing of time surrounding it will leave vastly different impressions on the two parties.

"We have fans who came out to see us who listened to Domestica in high school or even elementary school," Kasher adds. "When they come see us now, it's 1000 years later for them, whereas we're the same kids who made that record. They say things like 'You guys have been around forever!' and I'm like 'Well, I've been alive for kind of a while, but it's not forever.' We've been doing this now for over half of our lives, so it's just part of who we are. There are people out there who think 'The Martyr' is such an old song, but to us, we play it all the time. It feels fairly current to me."

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