Sunaana – New England’s Newest Festival
by Ross A. Ketschke You may not have known it, but Saturday was a very special day for New England’s music community. Nestled in a normally quiet corner of Portland Maine, the inaugural Sunaana Winter…
CRASHfest 2017 Celebrates the Wide World of Music
By: Alex LaRosa The House of Blues was decked out Saturday evening in ornate and oriental décor, with flickering artificial candles lighting up the Main Stage’s standing room. Inside, an eclectic audience meandered the venue,…
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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…
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…
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,…
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….
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…
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!…
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…
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….
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…
