Join DJ Cosm as he chefs up a weekly blend of delectable flavours. Formerly known as Mental Illness, the Main Ingredient remains Alberta’s longest running hip hop mix show. There’s no better way to cap off your weekend than a healthy serving of underground and classic rap. Sponsored by the Cold Garden Beverage Company Ltd.

A mix-up and mash-up of the best of CJSW late-night tunes. It's gothic. It's dark. It's the perfect soundtrack for the late night of the weekend.

For over 30 years, NOISE has been the home of the avant-garde, experimental, and free expression! Join host Steve as he takes you on a journey through all that is NOISE. You'll hear everything from improvisational composition, free jazz, neo-classical and plunderphonics to post rock, extreme, outsider, and more! So sit back, turn it up, and embrace the NOISE! Sponsored by Cavalcade Auto Acceptance

Music and happenings from Eritrea and the Eritrean community in Calgary.

It's been a week. Let host Val help you dip into your weekend wind down with an hour of chill beats, soul, funk, R&B. Sponsored by the CJSW Friends Card

Welcome to the Blues Witness, with your host Cindy McLeod, featuring the best in blues from across Canada and beyond.

This upbeat program focuses on Soca/Calypso music, showcasing artists, interviews, and news from the Caribbean.

Your weekly beach vacation – broadcasting tasty radio waves and good vibrations out to the sagebrush sea every Monday night, with a cosmic mix of country, psychedelic, garage and pop rarities from around the world.

Playing ska, reggae, and lovers rock from the 60s onwards Sponsored by A1 Spice & Grocery

Fullmoon Funkalicious

The most dangerous metal show on Earth.

2 heavy hours a week of no wave neo wave noise wave neu wave new wave weird wave post wave outsider wavez tsunami waves maybe raves and punkpunkpunk. This is a punk show for the weirdos. Sponsored by the Palomino Smokehouse and Social Club

This program is dedicated to the best of contemporary jazz music, affirming that jazz music is relevant and thriving today. In each episode, expect to hear music from current and recent releases and some classic jazz.

Exploration into music with a pulse, meaning, and soul. A melding of the past, present and future, dedicated to launch you into the weekend with a curated-kinetic sense of timely and timeless. A beat-oriented musical joyride whose focus is on the journey, not the destination.

Beat Salad is a fresh take on your weekday morning CJSW jazz routine. A recipe to ease you into your day, jazz is complimented by hip hop and soul with flavours that explore the sounds that link the three together.

House. Techno. Pop. Global bass. Darkwave. Sponsored by Confluence Distilling.

Katharsis/Processed is a weekly journey to the polar regions of contemporary music. These unfamiliar musical frontiers are scoured for adventurous new sounds still grounded in harmony, melody and beauty. Selections range from the sublimely quiet and reverent to overwhelming aural overload, but more often than not sustain a tranquil and soothing mood appropriate for later on a Sunday evening.

Where music meets mysticism, take a sonic journey through the Tarot each week as host Rachel spins a musical mix curated to match each card.

Puny humans beware! Radio Free Transylvania is a high-octane, white-knuckle thrill ride through the wild and weird world of Planet Stupid hosted by everyone’s favourite trans-dimensional Transylvanian tyrant turned radio host, Baron Mark Von Frankenstine XIII. It doesn’t matter if you’re a wastoid, a lobotomite or just a garden variety jerkazoid, Radio Free Transylvania is guaranteed to provide your feeble mortal brain with the chilling thrills that kill!

What’s in a name? Everyone knows Wednesday’s are the beginning of the end of the week—what better way to start that “hump” than with 3 hours of curated genre-bending goodness. Discover more about your new favourite artists through weekly guest features and engaging dialogue. Sponsored by The Eden

Enticing, sometimes challenging, music from the vast underground for thirsty ears and enquiring minds: post-punk, instrumental, math rock, avant, jazz, electronic, indie, funk and global grooves. Kerry has been mashing up independent, non-commercial sounds that cross disciplines and decades since 1987. Sponsored by High Line Brewing

This program is dedicated to the education and exploration of disabled life, giving voice to the life and experience of people with disabilities. We cover a wide array of issues and disabilities. We are people who discuss issues we are passionate about and topics we are interested in. We show how disability is in the mind of the beholder.

The best of Hardcore Techno, Speedcore, Gabber, Rotterdam, Experimental and Techno Classics.

Artslink is a half-hour monthly program about the arts in Calgary. We will bring to listeners interviews on theatre, dance, visual arts and film that happen mostly in Calgary while being mindful of a larger audience. Hear from dancers, theatre artistic directors, filmmakers, performers and many more artists.

DirtyNeedles is Calgary’s premier weekly hip-hop mixshow on Calgary’s finest community radio station CJSW. Founded in 2001, DJ’s WyzeWon & Tanner of The TrackBastards Crew have been providing trueschool rap, soul, funk, disco, R&B, electro and general freshness over Calgary’s airwaves for over a decade.

Join your flight captain Adam Kamis every Thursday from 2 to 4 PM for a sonic trip through the hot sounds of yesterday, today and tomorrow. Remember, keep those seat belts buckled, tray tables secured, and that dial locked on 90.9 FM. Sponsored by Hot Wax Records

Bringing you music and opinion since 1984, featuring the best in dub, 4:20 reggae, afrobeat, latin, electronica, breakbeat, soul and funk. Sponsored by Kensington Wine Market

The Voice of Ethiopia is one of the many multicultural shows broadcasted on CJSW 90.9 FM. The Voice of Ethiopia focuses on current affairs and radio dramas in the Amharic language. We also air a variety of Ethiopian music, some of which very similar to blues and jazz. This program is the only source of information on Ethiopia on Calgary airwaves.

Jack in your headphones and take a trip through genre, time, and place. Explore the Commonwealth with the pioneers of the music industry and discover new influenced by these innovators. Sponsored by the Ship & Anchor Pub

Bumping into Walls is a monthly, conversation-style spoken word program about living with vision loss, the challenges, the successes, and the day-to-day walls we all bump into.

A mix of tunes for your Sunday afternoon! Sponsored by The Attic Bar & Stage

Speaking in Tongues is currently CJSW’s only generalist world music show. For two hours every week Speaking in Tongues features the widest possible range of traditional and popular sounds from around the planet, from obscure reissues to the newest of new releases being highlighted on the global stage.

The Good Medicine Show is here to bring you good medicine through music. Host Cam Siferd are your guides to music that is nostalgic and refreshing. Rediscover music. Reclaim music. Listen to the beats that take you back. Sponsored by Last Best Brewing & Distilling

Starting the week isn’t easy. Ease into it with hazy, reverb-soaked tunes, spacey epics and jangle-pop wake-up calls.

Join Lauz for your weekly dose of LOUD! Two hours of power on the airwaves, ranging from hard and heavy rock n roll, through each sub genre on the heavy metal family tree. Expect some classics and some new discoveries, from here and from far, far away. Time to tear it up, legends!

Thoughtfully curated new music spanning the genres of experimental, avant-pop, electronic, folk, world, and hip-hop featuring interviews on the subjects of art, politics, the environment, and community in Calgary, Alberta and beyond. Sponsored by the Establishment Brewing Company Alternates with What's Your Niche every Thursday morning.

A veritable local legend, The Nocturntable has been entertaining CJSW listeners with its signature madcap brand of “variety-core” for over twenty years. Join DJedi Christine each week for two-hours of psych-rock radio that’ll introduce you to that fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning. Groove, garage, punk, rock, prog, industrial, metal – just put your hands on the speaker and think real hard. *Psychic request line is in effect. Sponsored by Blindman Brewing

Fade to Bass is your weekly lesson in all things bass. Exploring House and Techno that possess bass low enough to crack the foundations of most suburban homes. Tune in every Friday night from 7-8 pm as the sun dips and the weekend arrives and let Crooka kick start your night.

Joan Sarro spins new top tracks & all eras of punk, post-punk, garage, electronic, indie, k-tel gold, everything between & outside the lines. Sit back, dance in your car, do what you want, enjoy. Music freaks of the world unite. Sponsored by International Avenue BRZ

Two hours of Chaos and Confusion, with Industrial, EBM, and other such dark electro on the first hour, and Gothic Metal, Progressive Metal, and Melodic-death Metal on the second.

Rinsing it proper since 1997, Remote Emissions is Calgary's longest running drum n' bass radio show. Whether it's rowdy mix sessions with top dnb/dubstep talent, to introspective unplanned journeys, The Lotus Queen, Lady Bee and other special guests will provide the choicest bass selections for your Friday night soundtrack.