By Lizzie Heintz The night started slow. The room slowly filled with people as the start time drew near. The Royale, a nightclub usually filled with youth and party-goers, was tonight filled with an older…
Photography by Cameron Carleton By Mica Kendall What every single audience member can take away after leaving a live show by New Orleans based band, The Revivalists, is one special memory that reminds one of…
By Lily Doolin If you’re still racking your brain to figure out what to get as a last-minute gift for someone on your Christmas list, you’ve come to the right place! Vinyl records make for…
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…
By Lily Doolin The genesis of the concept album harkens all the way back to 1966, a tumultuous time of civil unrest that went on to become the inspiration for several pivotal albums in music’s…
By Lily Doolin As of late, it seems as though gender diversity is improving in the music industry. Big-name female artists dominated the stage at the 2018 Grammys back in January. Many female artists have…
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…
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…
Photograph by Lizzie Heintz By Lily Doolin Irish singer/songwriter Dermot Kennedy performed at Royale in Boston on October 29th. He sat down with WERS’ Lily to talk about touring, new music, and his time spent…
By Mica Kendall Contrary to the title, Mitski Miyawaki’s fifth album, Be the Cowboy is far from a country album or a 2008 Taylor Swift break up album full of cliche heartbreak. Be the Cowboy instead digs…
By Lizzie Heintz When my friend first told me about completing his personal challenge to listen to an album a day for the second half of the school year, I was overwhelmed. To be honest,…
By Andrea Williams As many people know, Gotye was behind the hit single “Somebody That I Used to Know.” With many hit singles and a Grammy, one would think he would continue to make new…
