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Weekly News: Title IX​ – The Price of Certainty

This episode of You are Here explores college courses on Beyoncé, a new initiative to tackle racism surrounding Boston sports, the not-so-virtual reality of video... Read More

Fall 2017 Album Releases To Look Forward To

By Melissa Gauger 2017 has been a year filled with political turmoil, changing environments, personal growth, and perhaps most notably, great new music. Over the... Read More

Behind The Music Desk | Season 3 Episode 1

The Music Team is back behind the desk for another season, this time to talk about: " Real Thing" - Lady Legs "I Don't Know... Read More

Sleep Well Beast: A Reflection on Love, Loss, and Politics

WERS Album Review Artwork for Sleep Well Beast by The National By Melissa Gauger "Meet me in the stairwell in a second for a glass... Read More

Remembering Tom Petty

By Jamie Galyas I distinctly remember the first time I expressed interest in rock n' roll. It was in kindergarten, and everyone in the class... Read More

My Journey with Tom Petty

Tom Petty Heartbreak Drawing - by Nick Fosman Alex Waters Where were you when you first heard a Tom Petty song? For me, the location... Read More

Weekly News: The Texting-Suicide Case and DACA

This episode of You Are Here explores potential repercussions of the highly publicized Carter v. Commonwealth case and visits a Boston DACA protest to get perspective from those... Read More

Listener Photo and Story Submissions

How do you celebrate independent music? WERS wants to feature you in an upcoming listener photo and story campaign, where we celebrate independent music and the... Read More

Blondes Really Do Have More Fun: Blondie’s Triumph Over Irrelevancy, Forty Years in the Making

By Erin Christie The 1970s: A decade filled to the brim and overflowing with 7" records of the punk to prog to ambient to disco-... Read More

Arum Rae at WERS

Singer-songwriter Arum Rae stopped by our studio and sat down with 88.9's Alex Waters to talk about her new record, the parallels between songs and... Read More

Goodbye WBRU

  By Ross A. Ketschke, who grew up in Westport, MA. I was nine years old, riding in the car with my mom after just... Read More

Rounding off Summer with these Music Discoveries

"Describing her music like her own diary, she has covered everything from failed relationships to a brief fascination with serial killers." This week on the... Read More