This week for our Pick of the Week, we have an amazingly powerful and raw song by Arlo Parks, “Beams.” On “Beams,” Parks becomes more vulnerable than perhaps she has ever been on one of her songs, as she takes us through years of her navigating her own mental health and the people around her.
Boston’s own Air Traffic Controller are back with the perfect summer anthem. Quietly making catchy indie pop for over a decade, the band is no stranger to creating the kind of songs you can’t help but keep coming back to. Their latest single proves they haven’t lost that magic.
Jack Antonoff and his band, Bleachers returned to us this year with their new album, Everyone for Ten Minutes. Out of all the standout songs on the album, “ we should talk,” checks all the right boxes for us. It is emotional, catchy, and you’re able to listen to it any time with ease, why wouldn’t you love it?
Something that I have anticipated for what feels like years at this point is another album from one of my favorite bands of all time, Interpol. The New York-based band has one of my favorite sounds in the modern post-punk/alternative scene. On “See Out Loud,” and leading into their album, The Mirror Weighs A Ton, Interpol have refound the sound that made them one of rock’s best bands.
One of the most interesting things in folk music over the past couple of years has been the development of social media and musical sensation Jesse Welles. On “Won’t You Come Out Tonight,” Welles exchanges his traditional protest style of music to become more of a traditional love song with modern motifs embedded throughout.
Who would have thought that in the middle of 2026, seemingly out of nowhere Weezer would announce not only a new tour, but a new album as well. On “We Might As Well Be Strangers,” somehow Weezer, in their 20+ year career, breaks new ground and discovers a fresh, modern indie sound with Wednesday.
As Pride Month comes to a close, ERS’ wants to take the opportunity to introduce you to, or remind you of queer artists that we can’t stop listening to! Across all genres, queer artists have always been some of the leading voices in the music industry.
We recently did a Membership event with new artist Kashus Culpepper at Roundhead Brewing Company in Hyde Park. Roundhead Brewing Company is the first Latino-owned brewery in Massachusetts. Our members enjoyed live music, food, beer, and hanging with their fellow music lovers!
To release one album and it be great, to shifting completely and establishing yourself as no easy feat. With her most recent studio album, You Seem Pretty Sad For a Girl So In Love, megastar Olivia Rodrigo has continued to reach new heights in her music, through songs such as “the cure.”
Each week of June, we open the 88.9 Vault of Soul with profiles of iconic soul pioneers. To continue 2026’s June coverage, WERS recognizes the iconic, the Voice, Whitney Houston!
“Dance The Pain Away” by Haute & Freddy is exactly as the title would suggest. The song is infectiously up beat, while also hiding the pain that lies within the lyrics. Teased originally in 2025, “Dance The Pain Away” is the perfect introduction to Haute & Freddy!
Few groups in music history have managed to stay relevant across multiple generations quite like Kool & the Gang. With a career spanning more than six decades, the legendary band has built a catalog that helped define funk, R&B, soul, and pop music while influencing countless artists who followed.
