
In the past year, Seattle rapper Macklemore and producer Ryan Lewis have blown up to superstar status in hip-hop. The two released their debut album The Heist in October of 2012 and after only a few hours it reached number 1 on iTunes. The whole album was independently produced, supported, and marketed by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis making [...]

Macklemore has been making music for a long time, but dropped his first studio album, a collaboration with his producer, Ryan Lewis, called The Heist on October 9th. The project starts out triumphantly with “Ten Thousand Hours,” a reference to author Malcolm Gladwell’s claim that the key to success is 10,000 hours of practice at a [...]
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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