Converse
How Did the Shoe Industry Get to Be So Big in Massachusetts?
Welcome to “One Last Question,” a series where research editor Matthew Reed Baker tackles your most Bostonian conundrums. Have a question? Email him at onelastquestion@bostonmagazine.com. Question: […]
Converse Launches a New Activewear Collection
Converse is kicking up the cool factor with its newest capsule collection, Essentials, which debuts online and in-store at Converse and third party locations Thursday. Designed […]
Big Boi Headlines Free Converse Rubber Tracks Live Show at the Sinclair
This post originally appeared on Vanyaland. After last month’s raucous throw down with rock and roll powderkeg the Orwells, Converse’s Rubber Tracks Live series is […]
Sneaker Wars: Converse vs. New Balance
Converse CEO Jim Calhoun has ignited an industry-wide battle royal. But is Boston’s coolest company shooting itself in the foot?
Converse Unveils an Artsy New Sneaker
Sneaker giant Converse has teamed up with fellow Boston-based brand Bandulu, a purveyor of “street couture,” to create a new, limited-edition twist on the classic […]
Converse Unveils a Redesigned Sneaker, the Chuck Taylor All Star II
People attend their first gigs in Chuck Taylors. They go on their first dates in Chuck Taylors. They go to prom in Chuck Taylors. Some—like Converse […]
Converse Rubber Tracks Partners with Newport Folk Festival
Continuing its mission to provide cost-free resources for emerging bands, Converse has partnered with the Newport Folk Festival to offer three artists a slot in […]
Converse Rubber Tracks Will Officially Open Its Boston Recording Studio on July 1
On July 1, Converse will welcome the first band to record inside its brand new Rubber Tracks studio, located next to the company’s recently opened world headquarters […]
Boston Gets Cooler as Converse Officially Opens Its World Headquarters
Months after flipping the switch to their monumental logo sign, thereby marking its territory—accompanied with a theatrical light show—America’s namesake shoe brand is ready to […]
Photos from Converse Rubber Tracks Live, Night 4: Chance the Rapper, Action Bronson, Michael Christmas
I’m not a music critic anymore; those days are dead and gone. But when Converse stages a weeklong “Rubber Tracks” homestand in Harvard Square, you […]
Photos from Converse Rubber Tracks Live, Night 3, with Slayer, Doomriders, and Rozamov
Early in Slayer’s set last night at the Sinclair, lead singer and bassist Tom Araya looked out incredulously at the headbanging crowd and said, “Hey, […]
Photos from Converse Rubber Tracks Live, Night 2, with Passion Pit, Baths, and Radclyffe Hall
“This song I wrote three fucking blocks from here,” announced Passion Pit frontman Michael Angelakos during the band’s encore last night at the Sinclair in Cambridge. He […]
Photos from Converse Rubber Tracks Live, Night 1, with the Replacements, Dinosaur Jr., and the Young Leaves
Paul Westerberg was in no mood for a sweet, fragile song. So when a roadie handed him an acoustic guitar, he smashed it into the […]
Converse Presents ‘Rubber Tracks Live,’ Free Five-Night Music Fest at the Sinclair
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GRC9HEiDe8 A huge music extravaganza is headed to town later this month, courtesy of sneaker namesake Converse. The Massachusetts-based brand, which recently flipped the switch […]
Sneaky Sounds
At Rubber Tracks, a new recording studio adjacent to Converse’s downtown headquarters, musicians will have a chance to lay it down, for free.