{"id":171,"date":"2018-02-07T17:13:36","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T17:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jeffterich.com\/?p=171"},"modified":"2018-02-07T17:13:36","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T17:13:36","slug":"converge-cover-story-for-citybeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jeffterich.com\/?p=171","title":{"rendered":"Converge cover story for CityBeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;172&#8243; img_size=&#8221;medium&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]The Salem, Massachusetts band don\u2019t act like rock stars. They travel in a van with one merch guy and no more instruments than they can reasonably carry with them. But on a musical level, they\u2019re anything but a \u201cregular old hardcore band.\u201d That might have been true back in the \u201890s, with early releases such as <em>Halo in a Haystack<\/em> or <em>Petitioning the Empty Sky<\/em>, but they\u2019ve been on a progressive journey since then. Their career since 2001 has seen them building on their early sound to create an intense, sometimes epic and frequently melodic version of metal and hardcore that\u2019s as versatile and diverse as it\u2019s ever sounded.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sdcitybeat.com\/music\/music-feature\/converge-s-quest-for-the-attainable\/\">Read more at CityBeat<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;172&#8243; img_size=&#8221;medium&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]The Salem, Massachusetts band don\u2019t act like rock stars. They travel in a van with one merch guy and no more instruments than they can reasonably carry with them. But on a musical level, they\u2019re anything but a \u201cregular old hardcore band.\u201d That might have been true back in the \u201890s,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[40,42,7],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-citybeat","tag-converge","tag-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jeffterich.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jeffterich.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jeffterich.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jeffterich.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jeffterich.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jeffterich.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"http:\/\/www.jeffterich.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jeffterich.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jeffterich.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jeffterich.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jeffterich.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}