Author: Garrett Powders

Red Wood Rising: In Studio

Local band Red Wood Rising came into the RSU Radio studios to play some songs for us. You can check out their performance on our YouTube page. You can find Red Wood Rising online. They'll also be performing at Backwoods Bash with some other great musicians!continue reading →

Garrett Interviews Shiny Toy Guns

Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with Jeremy Dawson, bass player of Shiny Toy Guns. They were in town touring for their newest album "III". I spoke with him about his childhood growing up in Oklahoma, having Carah back on vocals for the first time since their first release, and got his very interesting opinion on Kickstarter. You can check out part 1 and 2 at our Soundcloud page!continue reading →

April Music

April may be known for pranks and tricks, but this April is also a great month for true alternative music. I thought I was being pranked when I was told that the brand new Cold War Kids was being released on April Fool’s Day. “Dear Miss Lonelyhearts” will thrill any Cold War Kids fan with its blues influenced mix and overall catchy tunes like the song “Lost that Easy”. Local favorites, The Flaming Lips, are also making an appearance in April with the release of “The Terror.” Thirty years in the music business…continue reading →

‘Moonrise Kingdom’ at RSU

RSU’s Fine Arts Film Series will present Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom on April 3 at 7 in the Will Rogers Auditorium. This critically acclaimed film will be shown free and open to the public. Here is what some critics have to say: Though undeniably smart and charming, "Moonrise Kingdom" loves itself the way the callow Holden Caulfield loves himself: unconditionally. Salinger understood the problem with that. Anderson may not. Rafer Guzman,Newsday "Moonrise Kingdom" takes place in a world where everything seems pleasantly faded, where people read crackly-covered library books rather than e-books, and…continue reading →

KCACTF: Performing & Performances

Hey everyone! Garrett, David and Josh here checking in from KCACTF. It’s been a full week, and now that our performances are all done, it’s been time to do some workshops and watch some really great plays. Wednesday night we performed David and Josh’s selected “Sleepy Hollow” scene at the beautiful Strand Theatre in front of many people. We received so many compliments, cheers and applauds for everything, costumes to performance. Now that we are done, we have had the chance to see some plays performed for us. Yesterday we saw a visually…continue reading →

KCACTF: The Performances Begin

Garrett here from the “The Pelican” state, Louisiana. It’s day three for Josh, David, and I here at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival and we’ve already done a lot. Yesterday was the first round of the Irene Ryan scholarship competition. The three of us performed, myself as a nominee and David and Josh as partners of Katie Hoffman and Hannah Westlund who were also nominated for the scholarship. This competition required that we perform a 3 minute or less scene from a play in front of judges. It was an all…continue reading →

Travis McClearen In Studio

Local artist Travis McClearen stopped by the station to give us an in studio performance. After spending some time in Colorado for the last few years, Travis has returned to Oklahoma to form Travis McClearen and the Whiskey River Bandits. Without wasting time they jumped in the recording studio and are working on an album. You can check out the video for “Pinocchio” here, just one of the songs Travis was kind enough to perform for us.continue reading →

Local Sound on 91.3

Heavy Rotation, Medium Rotation, Light Rotation, Daytime, Evening, Spice and Recurrent. Since I’ve worked at RSU Radio these have been the consistent categories that we have placed our music on the air. Recently, however, we added one more category to truly give us the best mix of alternative music... Local Music! Every hour, right after the :45 break the first song you hear will be from one of the great local bands or artists that have sent us their music over the years. While I was going through the archives I saw bands…continue reading →

Calling On Local Artists

One thing we’ve always been proud of at 91.3 is bringing you the best in True Alternative music community. That is one thing we will continue to do in 2013, but just like everyone else, we want to improve our station so we have decided to give ourselves a New Year’s Resolution: “In 2013, RSU Radio will bring not only the best of the True Alternative Community, but also our local community.” That’s right, local music will be making a comeback on RSU Radio in a BIG way, but we need all the…continue reading →

RSU Radio’s 12 Days of Giveaway

It’s the holiday season and RSU Radio is in a giving mood. Last year we did “9 Days of Giveaway.” This year, hold on to your hat Santa...We’re doing TWELVE DAYS OF GIVEAWAY!!!!!!! From December 6th to December 21st listen in and check our Facebook page every week day so you don’t miss your chance to get up to 12 CDs!!!!!!! That’s right each day the number of CDs we’re giving away increase along with the day of giveaway. Winner on day 1 gets 1 CD, winner on day 5 gets 5 CDs,…continue reading →