Geoff Parachin - Music Director

2015 was another amazing year in college radio. Now that the year has come and gone, our Music Director decided to look back at all the albums that were played on the airwaves of RSU Radio. Beginning with his top ten, here’s a list of the 100 albums that made the most impact at RSU Radio over the past year. 1) Other Lives - Rituals2) Thee Oh Sees - Mutilator Defeated […]

L.A. based indie rockers, Raw Fabrics, are looking to improve on their popularity with the recent release of their second EP. Plastic Joy, which became available in late 2015, is a followup to their well received 2014 album, Gold Handcuffs.  Raw Fabrics formed in 2013 and are comprised of three musicians in their early twenties. While they are still quite young, their sound is well beyond their years. Part of […]

Tis the time of year when RSU Radio receives holiday themed albums from artists of all genres. No album excited the staff here at the station more than the arrival of It’s A Holiday Soul Party, from Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, which became available on October 30th.  For those not familiar with them, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings are a group who play soul, R&B and funk […]

Though it’s not available until February 19th of 2016, the popular experimental electronic group, Animal Collective, recently debuted their upcoming album, Painting With, in an unlikely venue. Travelers passing through the Baltimore-Washington International Airport on Wednesday, November 25th were unknowingly the first to hear the album when the airport agreed to loop it for several hours over their speakers. Since this unorthodox premier, the group has released new details about the […]

There’s a new post-punk group hitting the college music airwaves that has the staff of RSU Radio buzzing. Video is a band who has been playing shows in their native Austin, TX for years but are just now breaking into the college radio scene with The Entertainers, their second full length album. The group formed in Austin around 2010 and released their first album in 2011. They are a post-punk band […]

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are an Australian seven piece indie rock group who formed in 2010. Since their emergence five years ago, the band has released seven albums through their very own record label, Flightless. King Gizzard’s 8th album, Paper Mache Dream Balloon, releases on November 13th and is already receiving high praise from those lucky music fans around the world who were sent advanced copies. There label, Flightless, […]

As If, the sixth studio album from the funky, indie rock, dance group, !!!, pronounced ‘Chk Chk Chk’, is one of the more highly anticipated albums of the year by college radio stations around North America. When it finally arrived in mid October, the album did not disappoint and was by far the most popular of all releases that week. !!! is a Sacramento, California based group that formed in the […]

Hard rock group, Fuzz, makes a loud and explosive return to RSU’s airwaves with the release of their latest album, II, due out on October, 23rd.  The threesome is a side project formed in 2011 by the infamous California garage and psychedelic rocker, Ty Segall. He is best known for his talents as a guitar player and vocalist on his many solo albums and with his other group, The Ty […]

So far the trip has been a great experience. Day 1 started with a few delays, missed connection flights, hotel mix-ups, and being tired of sitting. The day ended with a rooftop party with downtown Manhattan as the backdrop (view pictured below). Co-Sign Promotions had some great bands lined up on the roof of Output in Brooklyn. After that we wandered the Washington Square area and ended up in a […]