MTTV: Converse Rubber Tracks Live Tour With The Orwells @Converse
Converse Rubber Tracks Live Tour is back for a fourth year and this year’s headlining rock band is The Orwells. The tour will feature an emerging artist who has recorded at a Converse Rubber Tracks pop-up studio in each visited city, as well as being hand selected by The Orwells to serve as the opening act.
The opening Converse Rubber Tracks artists are: Shark? (Brooklyn, NY), Nice Guys (Boston, MA), King Creep (Toronto, Ontario), Sonic Avenues (Montreal, Quebec), LA Font (Los Angeles, CA), Dante Elephante (San Francisco, CA) Dude York (Seattle, Washington) and BESTiE (Vancouver, British Columbia).
The free tour officially started on October 31st in Brooklyn’s Music Hall of Williamsburg and continued on to Boston, Toronto, Montreal, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Vancouver.
We got the chance to check out their performance at the Fairmount Theatre in Montreal. Check out a recap of the evening below!
Video shot by Kevin Alcalde.
About The Orwells:
The band emerged from their Chicago suburb as five high schoolers in 2011 – frontman Mario Cuomo; guitarist Dominic Corso; bassist Grant Brinner and drummer Henry Brinner. Since the band’s inception, they’ve released two EPs — Other Voices and Who Needs You — as well as two full-length albums to critical acclaim, including Remember When in 2012 and Disgraceland in 2014.