Meet the Staff of USD Radio

Nicholas Brumbach

Radio Director / Senior

With a new year, comes a new team to run the show.

Kicking us off is Nick Brumbach, our new Station Director. Nick lives, eats, and breathes music, so he was the natural choice to direct the spotlight on the student music scene.

Nick is a senior at USD, where he is majoring in communications and double-minoring in visual arts and changemaking.

Nick is always hard at work creating new music for his band Tunewave (@tunewaveband), where he is their frontman, singer, primary songwriter, and guitarist. But when Nick isn’t busy shredding, he tends to go rock climbing, watch soccer, see concerts, or create art.

Andy Degrasse

Technical Director / Senior

Andy is a Senior at USD studying Marketing & Business Analytics.

Andy fell in love with music at the age of 16 after messing around on GarageBand. Not long after, he began to release his own music under the name “Yung Nugget” and later “Andrew Garden.” Over the course of his musical career Andy has racked up over 100 million total streams, and more importantly made some awesome friends. When he is not making music, Andy enjoys swimming, hiking, and watching movies.

Andy is thrilled to bring student radio back to USD and help foster a community students who are just as passionate about music as he is!

Austin Smith

Marketing Director / Senior

A Senior at USD, Austin is a Communications Major with minors in Italian and Film Studies.

Since the day of his birth, Austin has seemingly always had headphones on. Besides his freshman year as a DJ and his overall admiration for music, Austin loves to play drums, but dabbles in guitar and bass as well. His other interests include drawing, hiking and climbing, cooking, and picking on Nick.

Despite popular belief, Austin was hired off of his musical knowledge and social media expertise. When asked if he will be at the Alcala Bazaar, all he said was “What’s tha- I mean, yes. I will be there. The whole time.”

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Katherine Ely

Promotions Director / Senior

Katherine is a senior here at USD, and she studies Communications with a minor in Music. When asked what her three favorite hobbies were, she responded with “traveling, I guess, idk.” In case you were worried, her favorite color is orange, and her vehicle of choice is a 1987 Firebird Trans Am. She has also been rotating “Songs in the Key of Life” recently, as she is a huge funk and soul music fan. “I can’t see a better alternative than Stevie Wonder when it comes to music, among other things,” Katherine said.

Katherine is one of our most trusted music heads here at USD Radio, and we’re excited to show you all that she’s been working on.