Hosting Standing Room Only
By Sam Fidler: Broadway on the radio runs in my DNA. Not a weekend went by in our house without WERS special programming playing on our old, reliable Bose radio/CD player, oftentimes right in our…
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Live Studio Specs
We know you’re a pro, but please read the directions anyway WERS Performance Studio Specifications The WERS Live Performance Studio is an acoustically tuned 13′ by 19′ room, with a 9 foot ceiling. The room is…
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Watsky at the House Of Blues
By Ross Ketschke: Sunday night, Emerson College alumni and former WERS DJ George Watsky packed the Boston House of Blues with thousands of fans eager to idi rapper’s homecoming. Before Watsky could take the stage,…
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Foy Vance Surprises Fans at the Sinclair
“I like coming to Boston, always have. Feels like a homecoming, usually everyone is Irish and drunk,” exclaimed Foy Vance three songs into his hour and thirty-minute-long set, much to the delight of the crowd….
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Radiohead’s New Album A Moon Shaped Pool Glitters, Experiments, and Delivers
By: Alex LaRosa Radiohead has been in the music industry for a long time, winning both critical support and chart success. With hits records like Pablo Honey, OK Computer, and Kid A, they’ve produced an…
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Exclusive WERS interview with Chairlift
WERS’s Ross Ketschke sat down with Patrick Wimbery and Caroline Polacheck of Chairlift before their show with M-83 at the Blue Hills Bank Pavilion to talk music, touring, and the lifestyle of being professional musicians!…
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Analog Heart Explores Highs and Lows at Outside the Box Festival
By: Alex LaRosa On an overcast and humid Thursday afternoon, local band Analog Heart took to the Fountain Stage at the Outside the Box festival and gradually drew a crowd with their driving, and…
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Metric at Orpheum
By Grace Burns Can you hear my heart beating like a hammer?” asked Emily Haines, lead singer of indie-rock band METRIC to a wildly enthusiastic crowd in Boston’s historic Orpheum; and hear it, we could….
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Luther Dickinson at The Brighton Music Hall
By: Alex LaRosa Saturday night, Luther Dickinson and the Cooperators came to the Brighton Music Hall and proceeded to deliver a show that definitely had something new to offer. This concert occasionally felt more like…
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The Ballroom Thieves LIVE In Studio
By: Jailene Adorno The Ballroom Thieves have really come a long way. As a folk-rock, Boston-based band, they went from playing in Faneuil Hall to touring around the country and now come May, they’ll be…
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The Bright Light Social Hour LIVE In Studio
By: Jailene Adorno The Bright Light Social Hour is a band from Austin, Texas that prides itself in their funk, psychedelic sound. With their new album out and tour in full swing, they stopped by…
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Jamie Kent LIVE In Studio
By: Jailene Adorno From the moment Jamie Kent entered the WERS station and started talking to us, we could tell that he was an incredibly down-to-earth guy. He came in with an acoustic guitar, beautiful…
