The National Playing in Support of President Obama
Indie rock band The National early this October decided to get out and do their part in supporting their candidate for this upcoming presidential election. The National have always been in support of President Obama and one month ago they opened up for the president at an Obama rally in Iowa. With the election closing [...]
This Week In Music History
Happy Frigid Friday! Or at least that’s what I’m calling it since this morning was arguably near freezing. Wherefore art thou summer? But nothing warms you up quite like your weekly fix of music history, am I right? Of course I am. In honor of this being the month of ghosts and ghouls it seems to be quite [...]
Mixtape Mayhem: V6: The Gift
Lloyd Banks, better known as “The Punchline King”, is never one to disappoint. His twelfth mixtape, V.6: The Gift, which was released on July 24th, is a mouthful of tongue-tying wordplay and head-nodding beats. Banks recruits the likes of Young Chris, Vado, Fabolous, Jadakiss, and Schoolboy Q for the mixtape. Lloyd Banks is by far [...]
Throwback Thursday: Jimi Hendrix Experience
For this week’s Throwback Thursday we’re playing a set from The Jimi Hendrix Experience, which was founded 46 years ago tomorrow. Few bands have been as influential as The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Formed in London (officially on October 12, 1966), bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell were originally conceived as Hendrix’s backing band. The [...]
Mumford & Sons’ Babel Named Highest Selling Debut of 2012
Last week Mumford & Sons’ new album Babel debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 600,000 copies sold, making it the biggest debut of the year. This marks the first #1 album for the folk-rock band and their record label, Glassnote Records, as well as the second highest sales week for any independent [...]
Calexico Live In Studio
The Tuscon, Arizona band Calexico came to the WERS studio represented by lead singer-songwriter and guitarist Joey Burns and pianist Sergio Mendoza of Sergio Mendoza Y La Orkesta. With them they brought a host of new songs off their latest record Algiers, named after the New Orleans neighborhood in which it was recorded. Geography and [...]
Riddim Watch: Mesopotamia
The Mesopotamia riddim is a new riddim to come out on Penthouse records this year. This riddim features a great up-tempo ska groove with a host of reggae artists adding their vocals to the groove. This tune is straight up classic rocksteady stomping. The drums are simplistic and solid, the bass lines bob around the [...]
Crystal Castles at House of Blues
On October 6, we had a chance to experience a different direction in the EDM artist we tend to cover. That’s right — we went to see Crystal Castles at the House of Blues. The experimental electronic group consists of vocalist Alice Glass and producer Ethan Kath. This team has been around since 2004 and [...]
“The Sound of the Life of the Mind”
It has been thirteen years since the release of Ben Folds Five’s last studio album, 1999′s The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner. In that time, a Five-less Ben Folds released three solo albums and launched himself a pretty successful singer/songwriter career. In 2011, Folds reunited with bassist Robert Sledge and drummer Darren Jessee to record [...]
Kid Cudi to Release New Album
Coming off his alternative rock collaboration WZRD with Dot Da Genius, Kid Cudi is energized to return to rap, and he’s quite confident about his return. The WZRD album, released in late February 2012, received mixed reviews from critics and fans alike. Those reviews, coupled with the lowest album sales in his career for the [...]
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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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The XX / Grizzly Bear
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