WDCB Listener-Supported Jazz & Blues

08/04/2025

Paul Abella is back in the WDCB Music Lounge with 3 new CDs for this week's "What's New on WDCB!"

07/31/2025

One of the most often asked questions we get is "DO you have a WDCB App?" The second most frequent question we get asked is "WHEN are you going to have a WDCB App?" We are proud to announce that as of today we are launching our first-ever WDCB App. It's free, of course, and you can use it to listen to our web audio stream with your smartphone anywhere you go. It's also an easy link to our Jazz Calendar, our 2-Week Archive, our Playlist function, our Donate page, and there’s even an alarm clock so that you can wake up every morning to WDCB! The WDCB App is available in the Apple App Store & The Google Play Store!

Listen to WDCB via our mobile app, wherever you are in the world!

07/31/2025

The full lineup has been released for the 2025 Chicago Jazz Festival! Find out who's playing where in the WDCB Music Lounge!

The Chicago Jazz Festival, a Labor Day weekend tradition, returns to Millennium Park and the Chicago Cultural Center to celebrate all forms of jaz...

07/31/2025

Tonight at 10, Hambone is pleased to welcome Karl Mauer from the Joliet Blues Fest to the back seat of my.....(don't make me cry). We are going to feature this year's artists including Mondo Cortez, Stefan Hillescheim and Sheryl Youngblood.

07/29/2025

WDCB is a media sponsor for the Erik Skov Duo on Friday, August 1 at the 1st Street Plaza in St. Charles as part of the 2025 STC Live! Series. More information is available at STCAlliance.org/STCLive. (photo by Zack Sievers)

07/29/2025

UPDATE! We are already back on 90.9FM. We apologize for the brief inconvenience.

WDCB's 90.9FM signal is off-air temporarily. We are working on the outage. You can listen via our web audio stream at WDCB.org or the "TuneIn" app ... also our 90.7FM signal in West Loop, or CAN TV42 in Chicago.

07/21/2025

Dear WDCB listeners,

In light of news from Washington D.C. that you may have seen regarding the future of public broadcasting, I want to communicate directly with you regarding the impact of this legislation on WDCB.

WDCB has been proudly serving you since 1977 from our home at College of DuPage, and for much of that time we’ve received grant funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). This annual grant was approximately $140,000 last year, which is about 8% of our total annual revenue.

Last Friday, July 18, a Federal budget rescission package passed by Congress eliminated the CPB funding that had been previously approved for the next two years. All public radio and TV stations across the country will be without this crucial support going forward. This loss may be catastrophic to some stations, especially in rural areas, and it will be a serious challenge to all public radio stations, including WDCB.

The good news at WDCB is that our operations are stable and we are in a solid financial position. I want to personally assure you that thanks to our careful spending and generous support from our listeners, WDCB is well prepared for this moment. We’re here! We’re solid! And we’re not going anywhere! But it will be a challenge, and we’ll be asking for your continued help to ensure our future stability.

It is important to note that while we receive excellent in-kind support from our licensee, College of DuPage, we stopped receiving an annual cash appropriation from the college in 2017. When it comes to everything from staff salaries to broadband to new studio equipment … we pay our own way.

WDCB truly is sustained by your individual listener contributions. In fact, during our recently-completed fiscal year 2025, a whopping 68% of WDCB’s revenue came from donations made by our listeners! …donations of $120 or $360 annually, or $10 per month through the Encore Club, or from car donations and even estate gifts. Your direct support of WDCB is the key to our ability to operate and keep that great music flowing through our 50th anniversary, and beyond.

Our next pledge drive isn’t until October. We promised you that we’d keep the summer pledge-drive-free, and that’s what we’re going to do! In the meantime, the whole team here at WDCB continues to work hard giving you the excellent radio experience you have come to expect every day.

Stay tuned, keep swinging, and thanks again for your continued support!

Dan Bindert
WDCB Station Manager

07/14/2025

WDCB is a media sponsor for Brooke Reams & the Pete Ellman Big Band performing the music of Aretha Franklin, Etta James and more on Tuesday, July 15 at The Venue in Aurora. More information is available at TheMusicVenue.org.

07/14/2025

New week, new music! 🎶 Paul Abella brings the latest sounds to the WDCB Music Lounge on What’s New on WDCB!

Richard D. Johnson – Warm Embrace (Shifting Paradigm) About a month before the world locked down in 2020, pianist Richard D. Johnson, sax...

07/03/2025

Tonight at 10, Hambone is pleased to welcome Moondog J (pictured) and Liam to the back of the Cadillac for a live, in-studio performance. Moondog is a deep, dedicated bluesman with emotive vocals.

07/03/2025

Bluesday Tuesday at Fitzgerald’s was jumping with a great show from The Cash Box Kings!
Thanks to Alan Frohlichstein for the excellent photography.