New Releases Tuesday
Welcome to New Releases Tuesday on WERS. Every Tuesday we’ll take a look around the music scene and bring you updates on, you guessed it, the new albums coming out this week. THE BRYAN FERRY ORCHESTRA—THE JAZZ AGE Bryan Ferry of Roxy Music has founded The Bryan Ferry Orchestra—a 1920’s style Jazz Ensemble—and their new [...]
Artist Of The Week: Neil Young
The WERS Artist Of The Week is one of rock ‘n roll’s most iconic figures, Neil Young, who has been quite busy in 2012 as he released not one, but two studio records: Americana and Psychedelic Pill. Young originally hails from Winnipeg, Manitoba and got his start performing as a solo artist in Canada in the early 1960s. [...]
This Week In Music History
Good morning ladies and gents! Hope you’re enjoying the perils of Black Friday after a long awaited and self-induced turkey coma. Time to get truly geared up for the holiday season, and to start it all off here’s your weekly fix of TGI music history Friday! Today in music history back in 1976, Jerry Lee Lewis, just [...]
Concert Watch: November 21st-November 26th
Let’s be serious, concert-lovers—we all say we’re thankful for friends, family, and the American way for Thanksgiving, but what we’re really thankful is for: Duncan Sheik—Tonight, November 21st, The Sinclair When it comes to musical versatility, it doesn’t get much better than Duncan Sheik. A writer and composer of his own material since the early ‘90’s, he’s also responsible [...]
New Releases Tuesday
Welcome to New Releases Tuesday on WERS. Every Tuesday we’ll take a look around the music scene and bring you updates on, you guessed it, the new albums coming out this week. PHILLIP PHILLIPS: WORLD FROM THE SIDE OF THE MOON Phillip Phillips, the winner of the eleventh season of American Idol who is already [...]
On The Verge: Kate Miller-Heidke
At 4:15 PM each Tuesday, WERS brings you our On The Verge segment which highlights an artist we think is up-and-coming. This week’s artist On The Verge is from a singer-songwriter all the way from Australia, Kate Miller-Heidke. She is classically trained with degrees from Queensland Conservatorium of Music and Queensland University of Technology in [...]
Artist Of The Week: Atlas Genius
The WERS Artist of the Week is the South Australian indie rock band, Atlas Genius. Consisting of Keith Jeffrey on vocals and guitars, Steven Jeffrey on bass, Michael Jeffrey on drums and Darren Sell on keyboards, the band has made a big splash this year with their song, “Trojans”, which is off of their debut [...]
This Week In Music History
Happy Friday all! Hope you’re enjoying the pre-Thanksgiving chill. To get you pumped for your imminent turkey-coma here’s today’s music history fix for your Friday. On this day in 1973, David Bowie’s first television special, 1980 Floor Show, was broadcast as a part of NBC’s Midnight Special series. This was Bowie’s first appearance after his publicized retirement on [...]
Concert Watch: November 15th-November 18th, 2012
Just like that, music-lovers, the holidays are upon us and the concert season is all that’s left to keep us warm aside from that expensive Christmas cheer. Awesome is audible this week, so let’s get straight to it. Thursday, November 15th, Friday, November 16th, and Saturday, November 17th – Amanda Palmer at The Paradise Lexington, [...]
New Releases Tuesday
Welcome to New Releases Tuesday on WERS. Every Tuesday we’ll take a look around the music scene and bring you updates on, you guessed it, the new albums coming out this week. SOUNDGARDEN: KING ANIMAL Rock band, Soundgarden released their sixth studio album, King Animal, today. It is their first album of new music in sixteen [...]
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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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June 8
The XX / Grizzly Bear
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June 12
The Postal Service
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