
“I swear to god it’s mostly herbal [stuff],” Mike Doughty says, as he empties a bottle of pills into his palm. He picks up a single pill and shakes it, listening for the faint “sh-sh” noise it emits. “It’s really an effective percussion method,” he says, and he’s not kidding. Doughty uses this technique on [...]

The Artist Of The Week is WERS favorite, Mike Doughty! Doughty first rose to prominence as the leader of the 90s alt-rock band, Soul Coughing and since then has had a fruitful career as a solo artist. Last month he released an all-covers album, The Flip Is Another Honey. Doughty was born on June 10, 1970 in [...]
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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