WOWD is excited to announce that we're bringing on new DJs with new shows, adding even more pieces to our already colorful musical mosaic.

Nine People's Favorite Thing, alternate Sundays from 7-8 PM. Judy hosts a show dedicated to modern musical theater. This new show will alternate in the Sunday 7-8 PM slot with Takoma Cabaret, our long running Broadway music show. (Coil Project Variety Hour now airs every other Sunday from 6-7 PM.)

High-n-Low, an hour of indie rock hosted by DJ Urbanowa on the 2nd, 4th, and 5th Mondays from 6-7 PM.

Variety is the Spice of Life, hosted by Christine, alternate Sundays from 5 to 6pm. This bi-weekly show, features an eclectic selection of downtempo and midtempo electronic music. Expect to hear flavors of - and influences from - funk, jazz, world music, hip-hop, soul, and Latin music.

Eclectic Soul, hosted by Semaj, Wednesdays at 10 PM. It's a deep dive in musical cultures explored mainly in black and brown communities such as bounce, go go music, house, reggae, and R&B.

A Denser Weave alternate Tuesdays at 10 PM. Hosted by Simon, this biweekly show (alternating with MOOD MUSIC) presents avant-garde music, mostly instrumental and atmospheric.

Como La Flor Monday evenings at 7 PM. An hour of cumbia music hosted by Valentina.

After-School Special, Tuesdays at 5pm, hosted by Addy, a Wilson High School student.
Silicon Symphonies alternate Wednesdays from 6 'til 8 PM. Hosted by "Et," who calls it a "chaotic neural soundtrack to the A.I. apocalypse AND a good excuse to move your feet."
Rudie Patootie is Thursdays from 5 'til 6 PM. It's a Ska music show, delving into all types of Ska, plus other upbeat tunes with horns. Rae hosts weekly
Days Have Gone By is alternate Thursday nights from 11 PM 'til 1 AM. On this new biweekly show, Matt plays songs of an ethereal nature, drawing from genres such as jazz, psych, folk, and American Primitive.

More reasons to keep your radio tuned to 94.3 FM or your internet audio set to TakomaRadio.org.

TUESDAY MARCH 8 is INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY, and many WOWD programs join in the celebration of women's achievements and gender equality by spotlighting a wide variety of women's music.

Tune in…

TUE. MAR. 1 - EPIC CITY. Carolivia welcomes Susan Weidman Schneider, the founder of Lilith magazine (4-5 PM)

SUN. MAR. 6 - TAKOMA CABARET presents "Great Broadway Performers of the 21st Century - The Women" (7-8 PM)

TUES. MAR. 8 (International Women's Day) - ROCK & ROLL RABBIT HOLE with an all-female installment of their Hole of Fame, including Kristen Hersch, Jenny Toomey Amelia Fletcher, and Tanya Donnelly (12-2 PM)

WED. MAR. 9 - CLASSIC ARMENIAN DIPTHONGS presents an all-women mutli-genre, multi-era, and multi-place musical mix (6-8 PM)

WED. MAR. 9 - SOUL SONIC plays Divas of Discontent (8-10 PM)

THUR. MAR. 10 - HOT SAUCE LOUNGE begins a 3-part Battle of the Femme Rockers (pt.2 on 3/17, pt. 3 on 3/24)

THUR. MAR. 10 - MUSIC MATINEE features songs from films directed by women (4-5 PM)

THUR. MAR. 10 - INDIE PENCHANT spotlights women artists from the DC area (7-9 PM)

TUES. MAR. 15 - TUESDAY MORNING MIX with a selection of TMM's favorite women artists, from Dinah Washington to Lucinda Williams (8-10 AM)

SAT. MAR. 19 - THOUGHT BOWL explores sexism in the pinball industry (3-4 PM)

SUN. MAR. 20 - MELODY DIVAS with Music By Women in the Movement.

They say "don't change horses mid-stream."

Well, WOWD isn't changing horses, but we are changing streams. Our internet stream, that is. It's now being provided by a third party, which specializes in that sort of thing!

If you access WOWD online through the PLAY button on our website, or through TuneIn, the switch to the new stream is automatic. But if you have saved our old streaming URL to a media player on your computer, you'll need to change it. The new stream URL is https://wowd.broadcasttool.stream/stream.

We thank David Klann of Broadcast Tool & Die and our own IT engineer Matt Toigo for facilitating the change.

WOWD celebrates and practices diversity in its programmers and its programming, and during February takes special note of the struggles and achievements of African-Americans.

Here are just some of the Black History Month features during our February programs:

BALLADS IN THE MORNING – Traditional Black spirituals and gospel music (2/11)

BLUES HALL OF FAME  – A Dick Lillard documentary about how Black blues and R&B revolutionized American popular music in the late ‘40s-mid ‘50s  (2/8, 2/22)

DERANGEMENT OF THE SENSES – Chicago jazz artists who were students of Black music educator Captain Walter Dyett (2/13)

DIVINO MARAVILHOSO – Music that manifests Black culture (2/5, 2/12, 2/19, 2/26)

EPIC CITY – Carolivia and two other African-American Jews discuss the recent Whoopi Goldberg controversy (2/8), writers from The Port of Harlem (2/15), Jewish African-American journalist Robin Washington (2/22)

GET UP – Interview with the author of White Lies, a book about early 20th century pioneering civil rights activist Walter White (2/7)

IN THE JAZZ KITCHEN – The life and music of Duke Ellington, with special guest jazz archivist Reuben Jackson (2/17)

INDIE PENCHANT  – Local African-American artists (2/24)

LOST TREASURES  – Black Poets and the Power of the Spoken Word (2/19)
MUSIC MATINEE – Films of African-American directors (2/17)

MUSICAL REMEDIES – All Black female artists (2/3)

RISE UP - Olivia features children’s music celebrating Black culture and artists (2/19)

 SOUND OF SOUL WITH D’NICOLE – Black inventors, entrepreneurs, and history-makers (2/6, 2/20)

THE BLUES COME CALLING – Black religious music and its influence on vintage blues (2/1)

THIS! MUSIC  – The music of iconic ancestor saxophonist David. S. Ware (2/5, 2/12, 2/19, 2/26) and the bluesy side of avant-garde (2/5)
WHAT YEAR IS THIS  – Music of Black artists from 1968 (2/3), 1977 (2/10), 1986 (2/17), 1994 (2/24)