“Old Yellow Moon” by Emmylou Harris
Country/folk tour de forces Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell are releasing Old Yellow Moon at ages when most people would have the idea of retirement looming above their graying heads. This obviously isn’t a consideration for either of these musicians. With more than thirty studio album releases and thirteen Grammys between them, Old Yellow Moon [...]
Wayne Potash Live In Studio
Live Music Week happens bi-annually at WERS to raise money to keep our station running. We ask if you can pledge your support in order to keep us live on air, bringing you live performances from your favorite musicians. Pledges can be made here. I was very lucky to interview Wayne Potash for the second time, [...]
Sunny Day Rainbows Live In Studio
Live Music Week happens bi-annually at WERS to raise money to keep our station running. We ask if you can pledge your support in order to keep us live on air, bringing you live performances from your favorite musicians. Pledges can be made here. I was super lucky and got to interview local group, Sunny Day [...]
Live Music Week Spring 2013
CLICK HERE to read about all of our exclusive Live Music Week performances. As always, during Live Music Week, WERS brings you an entire week of some of your favorite local and national acts performing live in studio. Thank you to everyone who pledge this past week to support commercial-free public radio! We raised over [...]
Emerson Umbrella Live In Studio
Emerson Umbrella came into the WERS Studio on March 17th, Saint Paddy’s Day and rocked the sound waves. It being my first Live Music Week on the Radio I didn’t know what to expect. I assumed it would be a pretty good sounding group. I was wrong. This group was amazing. The group sounded like a recording! I [...]
Mumford & Sons “Whispers in the Dark” Video
Mumford and Sons has had one of the most successful years with the release of their second studio album Babel that rushed to the top of the charts internationally. Babel was the fastest selling album in the UK and US selling 159,000 and 600,000 copies respectively. The band released a new music video for the [...]
Big Year Ahead For Joanna Newsom
In has been a somewhat quiet three years since Joanna Newsom released her last album, Have One on Me, back in 2010. Since The Milk-Eyed Mender, her 2004 debut, Newsom has pushed the boundaries of harpist commercial success with her three albums selling over a total of five hundred thousand copies in America alone. Each [...]
Blue Of A Kind Live In Studio
Live Music Week happens bi-annually at WERS to raise money to keep our station running. We ask if you can pledge your support in order to keep us live on air, bringing you live performances from your favorite musicians. Pledges can be made here. There could not have been a more perfect kick off the live [...]
Dawes at the Radio Day Stage
The Radio Day Stage at the Austin Convention Center featured a power house of a lineup on Friday, March 15th. Kicking off at noon with Divine Fits, followed up Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell, Iron & Wine, Charles Bradley, Pickwick, Dawes, and finishing up with Vampire Weekend anyone wandering in to the stage at a given point during the [...]
“Bucket List” Day at SXSW
I’ll probably think of my last day at SXSW as the “bucket list” day. That is to say that I crossed a whole lot of names off of the mental list of artists that I’d love to see but never had. Just on Friday alone I saw Emmylou Harris, Divine Fits (who I interviewed on [...]
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Serenata de Amor Brings Cape Verde to Emerson
Serenata de Amor, a musical theater project spearheaded by visual media arts associate professor Claire Andrade-Watkins, was brought to Emerson this past year. The project is a tribute to the morna of Cape Verde and Brava set in the 1940s. Andrade-Watkins worked with a team of faculty and staff members from Emerson to bring Serenata [...]
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Boston Calling
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The XX / Grizzly Bear
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June 12
The Postal Service
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