– By Mica Kendall – Earning worldwide attention for their break out hits such as “Anna Sun” and “Shut up and Dance,” found within their debut albums, Walk the Moon has earned an increasingly alarming…
By Emily Harrison We are in the swing of the holidays, and that means lights everywhere, endless cups of hot chocolate, and of course… music! Since the late 1980’s and 1990’s, Emerson College Professor and…
By Melissa Gauger It is a dark and windy night on June 12, 2016. While the evening, unusually cool for June, carries on, thousands of people crowd together to catch even a coveted glimpse of…
By Mica Kendall Since The Neighbourhood’s 2015 album release Wiped Out!, the band ventured out on two national tours for the album Being the Flood and Nu Waves tour, but then in 2016 went off the…
By Erin Christie When browsing the shelves hoping to find the perfect piece that can express your love for something that means a lot to you, or expresses your personal style and individual taste, you…
By Ross A. Ketschke, who grew up in Westport, MA. I was nine years old, riding in the car with my mom after just dropping my sisters off at soccer practice. I always loved…
Daphne Willis stopped by the WERS studio while she was in Boston for her tour to play some music and talk with DJ Zuzana about touring, her musical process, who she’s listening to, and more!…
SHOW YOUR LOVE FOR 88.9 THROUGH A PLANNED GIFT If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to membership@wers.org. A planned gift through WERS is an excellent way to accomplish both personal and charitable goals….
– By Erin Jean Hussey – Lake Street Dive flew close to home earlier this month at the Levitate Music & Arts Festival in Marshfield, MA. Lake Street Dive may be still an underground act…
“The verses whip along so quickly you almost don’t notice, you are propelled with the manic energy of the band into the relief of the chorus and everything feels euphoric for a second.” This week…
In the middle of an action-packed Saturday at the Levitate Music Festival, 88.9’s Alex Waters took a break and sat down with headliners Dispatch. From the air-conditioned comfort of their tour bus, Alex and band…
This week on the WERS 7 o’clock news, we heard a beautifully folksy tune from the nomadic in mind and body, Bedouine, chilled out to Washed Out’s latest single, celebrated the return and the quirkness…
