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 [...]
This Week In Music History
It’s the end of another week here at WERS, and time to take a look back at what history has been made on this day in the past. May 10th marks the birth of two music legends, John Ritchie in 1957and Paul Hewson in 1960. Never heard of them? Well, they grew up to be [...]
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 [...]
Bright Eyes Sees Hit 2005 Album Go Gold
The RIAA has announce that Bright Eyes’ 2005 I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning has gone gold. Selling 500,000 units, the classic album is the first gold album for Saddle Creek Records. Robb Nansel of Saddle Creek explained their humble thoughts in a statement on their site, much of it trying to find the overall meaning [...]
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. NOAH AND THE WHALE, HEART OF NOWHERE This is the fourth release from the English folk rock band Noah and the Whale. The [...]
On The Verge: Wintersleep
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, the indie Wintersleep, have come a long way from Canada to make it into the WERS studio. The band from Halifax, Nova Scotia comes from humble beginnings. The [...]
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 [...]
New Material From Boards of Canada
Best known for their cult, ambient classic, Music Has The Right To Children, Boards of Canada have teetered on the brink of un-existence since The Campfire Headphase, their last full-length release in 2005. The duo, made up of Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin, formed in 1986 and released their first EP, Catalog 3, in the summer [...]
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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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