Bixler-Zavala opened the tour’s Detroit show by addressing the men in the audience. “If you guys wanna do that karate-kicking shit, if you wanna beat the shit out of each other, please don’t do it at our show,” he said. “I think it’s about twenty years into this so-called punk movement where we need to reinvent shit. Slam dancing and the bastardized term ‘mosh,’ it doesn’t exist with us.” A week later, at a show in Cursive’s hometown of Omaha, he took additional preventive measures by instructing the venue to keep the house lights on as a deterrent, insisting, “Keep the lights up so I can see
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