Black Music Month: Afrika Bambaataa
June is Black Music Month, on June 5th 889@Night is highlighting Afrika Bambaataa.
7Horse Live In Studio
The WERS studio had a visit from 7Horse today for a wonderful live performance. The duo, consisting of longtime friends and rock veterans Joie Calio and Phil Leavitt, draws its sound from Led Zeppelin and ZZ Top up to recent blues rock groups like The Black Keys. Their debut album, Let the 7Horse Run, is about “laying something down [...]
Hershey Felder Live In Studio
This past Saturday, Standing Room Only listeners across the country were treated to the sweet sounds of American musician Hershey Felder doing what he does best– sinking into someone else’s skin to educate an audience. Canadian-born Felder isn’t embarrassed to admit how enamored he is with his heroes and shares an infectious enthusiasm with his [...]
Digging Through the Crates #4
Johnny Foreigner is an English indie rock group and a self-proclaimed “country band with pretensions” and are still relatively new coming to the scene, first forming in 2006. After releasing their first full-length CD in 2008, the critically praised Waited Up ‘til It Was Light, the band continued their slow but steady ascent with a second recorded album and touring [...]
Chagigah Kitchen: A Traditional Healthy Snack
Hello, Chagigah fans! Now that you’ve recovered from your Shavu’ot festivities, it’s time for your weekly dose of delicious Jewish food.These days, it’s become a priority to keep our food and bodies healthy in a culture that seems to eternally battle the junk food, and nothing quite fills you up and keeps you healthy like [...]
A Cappella News: Save “The Sing-Off”!
It is safe to say that one of the most disappointing events that can occur is when your favorite television series is in danger of being cancelled. NBC’s live vocal competition The Sing-Off is being canceled after only three seasons. Although there are many efforts to save the program, we really need to step up [...]
Revo Radar: Mr. Oizo
Mr. Oizo is going mainstream… or maybe not. Mr. Oizo, a French DJ on the Ed Banger label with Justice and SebastiAn, has always been the oddball of the group. His music has been called ‘schizophrenic’, ‘unlistenable’, and ‘absurdist’. Real name Quentin Dupieux, he’s recently gained a reputation as a cult filmmaker and last week [...]
Thoughts on Theater: Three Months in the West End
Since I grew up in suburban Massachusetts, attending professional theatrical productions was a rare treat. I have always been jealous of kids who grew up in or around New York City – the ones who talked constantly of all the Broadway productions to which their parents had taken them. For me, a professional production would [...]
Joe Pug on Coffeehouse
Expression exuded from Joe Pug’s face as he sang and plucked away at his acoustic guitar in the WERS studio, one square-toed cowboy boot planted on the floor, the other resting on the crossbar of the stool he sat on. The tensing and relaxing of his brow only served to exaggerate the sentiment in his [...]
Fun At The Playground: Arlington
Have you ever thought of visiting the birth place of Uncle Sam or a town that was founded over 350 years ago? Well now you can. Take your mom and dad (and siblings too!) to a small town in the greater Boston area. Arlington, Mass. is a town neighboring Cambridge and Belmont that is easily accessible by [...]
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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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May 25
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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