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Men’s Health PLUS more! ERS+ looks out for you this June Pt. 1

ERS+ – Boston’s Black Experience, 88.9FM HD2 / wersplus.org, sat down with Psychotherapist Sonia Erlich. She is the Deputy Director for Workforce Development and Clinical Training for TEAM UP. Mo Wilks and Sonia discuss positive ways to process and check in with yourself to deal with stress. These simple tools can be used on the…

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Boston’s Kae Alayah stopped by prior to her Momentum performance

DJ Mo Wilks interview Boston singer/songwriter Kae Alayah Singer songwriter Kae Alayah stopped by Studio 8-8-9 to talk with The Secret Spots’ Mo Wilks about her musical background, inspirations and glimpse into her performance at the Momentun BAMSFest Boston opening night. She’ll be onstage at the Sinclair in Harvard Square with other local Boston area…

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Roxbury International Film Festival – 27 years of joy filled movies for Boston

Welcome back to Studio 8-8-9, I’m DJ MO WILKSSummer in Boston is thankfully in full effect. Cookouts, road trips, gatherings with friends and family increase as does the signalling of the summer film season. I’m not referencing the summer blockbuster series season, although there appear to be some super offerings taking filmgoers to worlds of…

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Stew-ing up Momentum heading into BAMSFest 2025

Momentum 2025 Boston kicks off June 25, 2025. It is a six-day arts and culture music creative festival that is part of BAMSFest (bamsfest.org) June 28th. BAMSFest, the festival’s crowning jewel event, celebrates it’s the seventh year of highlighting local and national arts, dance and cultural creatives inside Massachusetts held at Dorchester’s historic Franklin Park…

Coco Jones at Roadrunner: A Millennial R&B Dream with Vocals, Vibes, and Star Power

Coco Jones at Roadrunner: A Millennial R&B Dream with Vocals, Vibes, and Star Power

By Anytza Delgado Boston was wrapped in velvet Monday night as Coco Jones lit up Roadrunner with a show that felt like the warmest hug and the fiercest flex all at once. From the moment the lights dimmed, it was clear: this wasn’t just a concert. It was a celebration of R&B, of millennial nostalgia,…

BAMSFest celebrates seven years of bringing joy to Boston communities June 2025

BAMSFest celebrates seven years of bringing joy to Boston communities June 2025

Article written by James Barnes, Urban Coordinator Videography & Photos by Bryan Edourd, Class of 2025 BAMS (Boston Arts & Music Soul) Festival, or BAMSFest, is a culturally-led movement, pioneered and orchestrated by Boston native Catherine T. Morris. Established in June of 2018, the goal was to recognize and magnify the creative contributions of Black & Brown…

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Comics in Color’s Cagen Luse illustrates his two-day fest inside Studio 8-8-9

Listen to our interview with Cagen Luse, co-founder along with Barrington Edwards of Comics in Color, a two-day festival now in it’s fifth year in Boston held at Roxbury Community College. Cagen drops knowledge on his journey to becoming a cartoonist, Boston’s comic scene, the recent passing of Boston illustrator Robert Stull,  as well as…

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Morgan Burrs and Corey Fonville of Butcher Brown explore the soul of music

ERS+ and The Secret Spot’s very own DJ Mo Wilks vibed out with members of the Virginia-based soul band, Butcher Brown. Morgan Burrs (guitar) and Corey Fonville (drums) discussed their musical inspirations, how Butcher Brown came to be, and their latest album Letters From The Atlantic in this tell-all interview.

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Tony Wilson ignited soul power inside Studio 8-8-9!

  Tony Wilson stopped by Studio 8-8-9 to chop it up with host interviewer Bryan Edouard aka Bishop Toussaint. Tony and Bryan discussed Tony’s annual performance commemorating the night James Brown Saved Boston. Wilson annually recreates the historic evening Brown gave an energetic performance at the then old Boston Garden. It followed the aftermath of…