Foals Makes a Paradise at House of Blues
By Kenneth Cox You’d be hard pressed to find any palm trees sprouting up around Boston. However, this past Friday at the House of Blues, the stage was surrounded by palm trees as audiences came…
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Live and Acoustic Day
All day long, we’ll be playing live and acoustic songs that we know and love! If you love what you hear, then help us keep the music playing strong! Today we’ll be giving away tickets…
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Boston Calling 2019’s Bottom of the Bill with Sidney Gish, Easy Life, and more
By Lily Doolin Boston Calling Festival is the largest summer music festival here in the city. With some of the biggest names in music like Twenty One Pilots, Tame Impala, and Travis Scott headlining this…
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Acoustic Songs that Rock – Oasis, Joni Mitchell, and Cage the Elephant
By Rodin Batcheller In an era of artificial beats and Soundcloud rappers, it seems to me that acoustic instruments have been thrown on the backburner of the instrumental landscape. Gibson even declared bankruptcy in May…
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The Cactus Blossoms Discuss their Latest Album Easy Way and Upcoming Tour
By Lilly Doolin Brothers Page Burkum and Jack Torrey, known as vintage folk/country duo The Cactus Blossoms are about to go on tour to promote their newest album Easy Way. The two took some time…
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How A Love Story Turned Into Flora Cash
By Andrea Williams In this day and age, when social media plays a big role in all of our lives, it is not surprising to see how it brings people together to create something enchanting….
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Three at Home Stops by WERS
Three at Home with WERS General Manager Dr. Jack Casey. Photo by Kathryn York. By Sonali Anand Mary Casiello and Dann Russo stepped aside from their solo careers to join together in Three At Home….
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Ten Albums that Came out Ten Years Ago
By Lily Doolin With the end of 2018 on the horizon, you music lovers out there are probably already looking to see what the new year will bring to the industry. What new artists will…
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Iceland Airwaves 2018 Recap, Photos, and Playlist
Photography by Erin Jean Hussey By Erin Jean Hussey Couldn’t make it to Reykjavik for Iceland Airwaves 2018? Don’t worry! WERS traveled to Iceland in partnership with Iceland Naturally and put together a roundup of…
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Leisure comes back to Emerson for Wicked Local Wednesday
By Samantha Woolf Leisure, an Emerson alum and a singer-songwriter, stopped by for WERS’s “Wicked Local Wednesday” special to perform some of his music. Among other things, he talked about how being a student at…
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Tallest Man on Earth Blows Audience Away
Photography by Lizzie Heintz By Lizzie Heintz Kristian Matsson may as well have actually been the tallest man on Earth; his presence took up so much of the room that audience couldn’t take their eyes…
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King Princess: A Fresh Voice In Music
By Andrea Williams Mikaela Straus, more commonly known as King Princess, began her musical career early 2018 when she released her first single “1950” in February. Zelig Records signed her soon after. She recently released…
