Steve Martin and Edie Brickell at NonComm
At the surface, a pairing like Steve Martin and Edie Brickell might seem unrealistic at best. A 67-year-old comedian teaming up with Paul Simon’s wife? Yet long-time fans of Martin know that he is just as adept with the banjo as he is with comedy. That’s part of the reason his Non-Comm performance with Brickell, [...]
Kurt Vile At NonComm
Kurt Vile’s set is scheduled to go on at 9:25 PM. You’d never know, since he’d been mingling through the crowd since forty-five minutes beforehand. He also jumped on stage twenty minutes before the set set for sound check, and remained there until he began playing. It’s a little flustering when the host introduces him [...]
WERS at Non Comm 2013!
This week WERS is headed to Philadelphia for Non Comm 2013! CLICK HERE for live updates and recaps from this year’s convention! The annual NON-COMMvention music and radio conference is held in Philadelphia, PA and hosted by WXPN. Every year, industry professionals and music lovers flock to Philadelphia for exclusive showcases, innovative guest speakers, and [...]
Throwback Thursday
For this week’s Throwback Thursday we are playing a set of the Beach Boys in honor of the 47th anniversary of the release of their legendary album, Pet Sounds. Surf rockers, the Beach Boys are one of the most prominent American rock bands of all time and especially during the 60s and 70s. The Beach [...]
New Order to Release New Live Album
Since reuniting in 2011, New Order has made a lot of news in the music world. Frontman Bernard Sumner performed a duet with Brandon Flowers during a recent concert, the band performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, they announced tour dates with Johnny Marr and SPIN called them one of the best things they saw at [...]
Austin City Limits 2013
Austin’s yearly Austin City Limits festival recently announced its lineup and it is absolutely bursting with tons of incredible bands. After the past couple of years proved to be quick sell-outs, C3 (the Austin based booking agency behind Austin City Limits and Lollapalooza) decided to expand the festival over two weekends, in the same vein [...]
Foxygen Live at Brighton
A few minutes before the show starts, a stagehand approaches the record player that rests on top of an organ. He flips through a few records, one being Foxygen’s own, before finding what he’s searching for. He slides the record out of the green and grey sleeve, lays it down, and drops the needle before [...]
Throwback Thursday: Peter Gabriel
For this week’s Throwback Thursday, WERS is celebrating Peter Gabriel in honor of the 27th anniversary of his hit album So. English singer-songwriter Peter Gabriel is most well known as the lead singer and flutist for progressive rock legend – Genesis. Gabriel was one of Genesis’ founding members back in 1967 with a few of [...]
Sigur Rós Previews New Music
Fans of the wildly-popular Icelandic band Sigur Rós will be pleased to hear that there is more wondrous new music on the way. Sigur Rós has already announced that their newest album, Kveikur, is scheduled to be released mid-June and have shared two songs from the upcoming album on their website (“Brennisteinn” and “Isjaki”). Two [...]
Artist of the Week: Boy
WERS is featuring Boy as our Artist of the Week! Don’t let the name fool you. Boy is actually a female duo featuring Swiss singer Valeska Steiner and German bassist Sonja Glass, who met each other while taking a pop-music class at Hamburg in 2005. Because they had each had other musical projects going 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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June 8
The XX / Grizzly Bear
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June 12
The Postal Service
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