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The Center of the University Music Festival announced Friday that there will be no 2016 festival. Organizers claim that the festival has outgrown the previous location in the Blue Dome District in Downtown Tulsa. Last year’s event took place across three main stages, including the Guthrie Green, and venues and bars across the area. The entire area was shut down for the two day event. The festival hopes to make […]

This year is shaping up to be a big one for music releases. Some breakout artists from the past few years are making their way to the studio, and it seems like plenty of veterans of college radio are making big comebacks in 2016. Here are a few releases we are excited about here at RSU Radio. February Animal Collective – Painting With Any time Animal Collective release new material, the […]

Oklahoma musician John Moreland will be making a national TV appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. Moreland will play on Monday, February 1st. The singer and songwriter has earned some national, and even international acclaim as of late. He gained some mainstream notoriety in 2012 when three of his songs were featured on the TV show Sons of Anarchy, but he has been a big name in the Oklahoma […]

The past month has been a trying time for music fans. Social media is abuzz about the seemingly constant stream of well-known people who have died recently. The most recent death that has shocked the nation is that of Glen Frey, guitarist and singer for the legendary 70s and 80s rock band The Eagles. Glen Frey founded The Eagles along with Don Henley in 1971. He died at age 67 […]

The Cain’s Ballroom has ended 2015 ranked 17th in the world for ticket sales by a venue its size. The rankings look at all clubs worldwide with a capacity of 3,000 or less. The Cain’s achieved this ranking despite holding well under the maximum for the category, at a capacity of 1,800. For 2015, the venue sold 130,641 tickets to shows, including 27 sellout performances over the year. Cain’s Ballroom […]

The entire music world is mourning at the loss of David Bowie, who succumbed to cancer. Bowie was 69 years old. The announcement was made on the musician's Facebook page:"January 10 2016 - David Bowie died peacefully today surrounded by his family after a courageous 18 month battle with cancer. While many of you will share in this loss, we ask that you respect the family’s privacy during their time […]

From writing an album to its release, “Desi & Cody” the Tulsa-based married singing couple spent about three and half years writing & collaborating.  Now, their new music video “Everyone is on Our Side” is out.  They collaborated with director Sterlin Harjo for what many are calling a ‘very intimate shoot.”  In a recent interview with NewsOK, Cody said how much he enjoyed working with the Oklahoma filmmaker a lot… […]

The Wakarusa music festival will not return in 2016. In an open letter posted to their Facebook page, the event’s organizers blamed dishonest partners on the demise of the festival. The music and camping festival had been part of a small group of festivals happening annually at Mulberry Mountain in Ozark, Arkansas. Waka’s sister festival, Phases of the Moon, was canceled earlier this year only six weeks before its scheduled […]

The Oklahoma Room at Folk Alliance International has announced this year’s performances. The set of performances are curated by representative from Horton Records, the Woody Guthrie Center, and Tulsa radio program “Folk Salad”. So far, nearly 30 musicians have been announced to play this year’s event. Acts will include a selection of diverse approaches to the genre, including performances by Wink Burcham, Steve Liddell, Paul Benjaman, Cody Brewer (Grazzhopper), Jesse […]