RSU Radio’s Top 10 Countdown – 11/21/2025

This week’s Top 1o starts with some real royalty as Katie Schecter’s Empress makes a grand entrance to the list at #10 – letting The Laster Dinner Party eat their cake at #9 with their album From the Pyre. From right here in Oklahoma, we have Other Lives living it up at #8 with Volume V, followed by Geese’s Getting Killed at #7. Fionn takes a dive this week, as their album Scum goes from #1 to #6.

Two newcomers this week are the silver-tongued Elias Ronnenfelt at #5 with Speaking Daggers, followed by Dragon Inn 3 taking roost at #4 with their EP Full Disclosure. After finishing 8th last week, Automatic makes it to the podium by a hair as their album Is it Now? takes #3 this week. Just shy of the mountaintop, we have Snocaps breaking the ice at #2 with their debut album: Snocaps. And finally, Jay Som finds where she belongs – at #1.

Nobody should have any beef (or should I say “Beeef?”) with this week’s Artist to Keep an Eye Out For. This week, we featured the debut album from Ivy Boy, a.k.a. Beeef vocalist Perry Eaton. Eaton’s self-titled album, Ivy Boy, is folksy and intimate solo-debut that doesn’t forget the beeef.

Now for everyone’s least favorite part: the departing bands. This week, we waved goodbye to Rocket’s red glare, as R is for Rocket blasted off again. Captain Howdy and the Sunset Serenaders went up in a cloud of smoke and after nine weeks in our Top 1o Cut Copy couldn’t stay a moment longer.

1. Jay Som – Belong
2. Snocaps – Snocaps
3. Automatic – Is it Now?
4. Dragon Inn 3 – Full Disclosure
5. Elias Ronnenfelt – Speaking Daggers
6. Fionn – Scum
7. Geese – Getting Killed
8. Other Lives – Volume V
9. The Last Dinner Party – From the Pyre
10. Katie Schecter – Empress

Artist to Keep an Eye Out For:
Ivy Boy – Ivy Boy

Honorable Mentions:
Rocket – R is for Rocket
Captain Howdy and the Sunset Serenaders – Smokin’ Grass
Cut Copy – Moments