On The Verge: Blondfire
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 weeks’ artist On The Verge is brother-sister duo, Blondfire. Erica and Bruce formed the band in 2004, and are now really starting to make some waves. Funny enough, the song that is doing [...]
Dan & The Wildfire
Dan & the Wildfire came into the studio to perform a live set for WERS’ Live Music Week. The lively folk/rock group played three songs off of their second album Smoke Signals, which the group self-released in October of 2012. Dan & the Wildfire is composed of five members: the titular Dan himself, who is [...]
On the Verge: Skinny Bones
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 weeks’ artist On the Verge is Boston’s own duo, Skinny Bones! The group is composed of singer and guitarist Jacob Rosati and drummer Chris Stoppiello. The two started playing together last November after [...]
Ra Ra Riot Live in Studio
Wes, Milo, Mathieu, Rebecca, and Kenny of Ra Ra Riot all sit in the lobby of the WERS studios wearily dining on soup and bread from Panera, using their gig cases as tables. The group looks tired but greets everyone with smiles. The band’s new album is called Beta Love. Released in January 2013, this [...]
Two Gentlemen of Verona Live In Studio
Members from the cast of Emerson’s production of Two Gentlemen of Verona swung by the WERS studios to perform a few songs for Standing Room Only. Anna Harissis, Lanea Ritrovato, and Jake Novak will star in the musical next weekend, among an enormous cast, with performances on April 18th, 19th, and 20th. The musical, originally [...]
On the Verge: The Staves
It’s rare to encounter the problem of there not being enough synonyms in the thesaurus for “lovely” to accurately describe someone, but this surely will be an issue for anyone who meets the ladies of The Staves. Made up of the Stavely-Tyler sisters (Emily, Jessica, and Camilla), this folksy-acoustic trio hailing from Watford, England stopped [...]
Reem Performs Live In Studio
Boston’s up-and-coming rapper Kareem Sully, aka Reem, is a nineteen year old well on his way to fame. He has a vision much wiser than his age would suggest, artfully mixing samples of Tupac with his own style and unbelievable versatility on his first mixtape, HYPE!, released February last year. In an interview with popular [...]
Dawes Live In Studio
Dawes is an American folk rock band from Los Angeles, California made up of brothers Taylor and Griffin Goldsmith (respectively on guitar and drums), along with bassist Wylie Gelber, and keyboardist Tay Stratharin. The band was formed in 2009 when Blake Mills departed the original band, Simon Dawes, and Taylor and Gelber decided to take [...]
On the Verge: Passenger
Before Mike Rosenberg, the one-man act that is Passenger, performed his first show to kick off his tour in the US tonight, he decided to swing by our studio to play us a few tunes. The UK-born singer-songwriter has been through the ups and downs of the industry, spanning from busking on the streets just [...]
Rose Cousins Live In Studio
Halifax Canada’s Rose Cousins brought nothing more than herself and a couple instruments for her in-studio performance at WERS for live music week. As of lately, however, she has been proudly calling Boston her “second home,” and we caught her in rare form, not surrounded by a group of tight knit Boston musicians. She seemed [...]
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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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June 21
Fleetwood Mac
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June 23
B-52s + Go-Go’s
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July 9
Paul McCartney
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July 10
She & Him
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July 20
Bob Dylan, Wilco, My Morning Jacket
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