This week has seen some more great articles on Converge in print – A live review in Kerrang! joins a 4/5 album review in Big Cheese and a 7/10 album review in NME.
Bowling For Cheese
This month’s Big Cheese magazine features a feature on Bowling For Soup and their always-entertaining videos, as well as a nice tagline on the cover.
Classic Rock feature Alberta Cross
This month’s Classic Rock has featured Alberta Cross as their “High Hope” for this month as well as putting them in their Jukebox. Nice.
Big Cheese love Rhymesayers
Rhymesayers have two album reviews in this month’s Big Cheese with Eyedea & Abilities getting a 4/5 review and Brother Ali coming in with a 3/5. Minneapolis represented!
Ctrl Z join Division
Breakbeat kings Ctrl Z have joined the Division family for online in the build up to their new single Ruffneck 09 with some killer remixes from the likes of RacknRuin and High Rankin. Watch out for these guys!
Manchester Orchestra MySpace premiere
Manchester Orchestra recently unveiled their latest (rather tongue in cheek) music video over at MySpace and it’s currently featured on the Music homepage! Catch the last few of their dates with Biffy Clyro this week or their own headline date at Heaven in London next week.
Bowling For Soup exclusive for Rock Sound
Bowling For Soup recorded an exclusive acoustic session for Rock Sound when they were in the UK recently and you can check out the first part of three over at their website right now. The next parts will follow tomorrow and the next day so keep those eyes peeled!
More Converge love
Converge have seen their album gain more great reviews with Total Guitar giving it 5/5 and Terrorizer handing it the “Album of the Month”.
Placebo win at the EMAs!
Placebo had a very successful night in Berlin last night as they picked up the award for Best Alternative Act at the MTV Europe Music Awards. What a year 2009 has been for the band!
Fake Problems get Tiscali praise
Describing their material as”irresistibly catchy indie pop songs”, Tiscali were full of praise for Fake Problems on their blog this week following a storming set for the band supporting Frank Turner at a sold-out Shepherds Bush Empire. Further reviews of the band’s performance have appeared on the likes of Female First, Live The Scene and Sonic Dice.
