Creative Sector Accelerator Sets New Tempo for DC Indie Music

Capitol Music X Media Accelerator Flyer

A number of metro D.C.'s emerging music acts gathered at Oxon Hill's La Ceiba Restaurant for January's Capitol Music X Media Accelerator, the first in a series of events connecting artists and media resources.  Organized by WOOK Radio DC, representatives from several terrestrial and online radio stations -- including WWFD The Gamut 103.5 FM HD3, Baltimore's WMEL, Arlington low-power FM WERA 96.7, and DC Radio 96.3 HD4 -- were on hand introducing their outlets to recording artists for radio promotion.

"Part of the goal here," said WOOK's CEO, William Tucker, Jr., "is to establish a repository where artists developing projects can pick from a variety of services a record label might normally provide." Tucker envisions the space under development for WOOK in the Southern Marketplace at 801 Southern Ave SE providing artists teleworking and administrative services as well as radio promotion and a performance venue.  He expects to begin accepting artists into the program by the end of February.