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Music Director: Sybil Augustine – musicdirector@wortfm.org (for music submissions, charts and tracking, promotional exchanges for music events and following up on volunteer applications or other requests. Please include specifics in your subject line, such as “Hiphop Music Submission” etc, )

Music Assistant: Aaron Scholz – musicass@wortfm.org (for record donations and sales, promos recording volunteers, etc.)

Music Calendars: Submit your events online here or send by email to calendar@wortfm.org

How do I get my music played on WORT?

We accept submissions in most genres and styles of music, focusing on noncommercial, out-of-the-mainstream, independent releases (check out our playlists and music charts for more information.) It may take up to a few weeks for us to review and process your submission so we appreciate your patience, and feel free to contact us to follow up. Please send your music, indicating any tracks with language that needs to be aired after 10 pm and including a one-sheet description and any biographical and tour information, to WORT Music Director, 118 S. Bedford St, Madison, WI 53703 and/or to musicdirector@wortfm.org.

We do accept digital files on .wav or mp3, but currently we still prefer CDs to digital submissions because it’s the quickest way to get it into the hands of our programmers and onto the airwaves, though we have a growing digital library. Digital submissions should be .wav or other lossless files, or high quality mp3s [128-320 kbps.]

You can follow up or “track” your submissions by email, or call 608-256-2001 on Wednesdays between 1-4 pm CST to ask if we received it, has it been reviewed, has it been added to our library, and what kind of airplay it’s getting—e.g. light, medium, heavy or charting. Thanks and we look forward to hearing your music!

WORT Music Playlists

What was that song I heard? Who was the artist, what is the album title, where can I get it? Where can I find the entire playlist for a show?

Click on the Playlists button to bring up a calendar where you can choose any date to find the playlists for that day. If you can’t find the right playlist or the song you’re looking for, your best bet is to call the station the next time that program’s on and ask the host yourself. If that’s not possible we may be able to help you, but please have as much information as possible at hand when you contact us, such as: approximate day and time the music was played, what type or genre of music it was, who hosted the show and any other information you remember about the selection and we’ll do our best to track it down.

Once you figure it out, there’s a “Buy It!” link next to each track in online playlists that leads you to a place where you can buy songs and albums, and by doing it that way a small portion of each purchase goes to support WORT.

11/24/15 WORT Charts

November 30, 2015 by WORT Music Department

WORT’s weekly music charts for our top 30, top adds, jazz, world, electronic/dance and loud rock/metal shows have Madison’s own Cribshitter in the top spot. WORT, Madison Charts for the week beginning November 23, 2015 top 30 1 CRIBSHITTER Acapulco 2 NEON INDIAN Vega Intl Night School Mom And Pop 3 BOB DYLAN The Cutting […]

WORT Music Charts for the first week of February

February 5, 2016 by Sybil Augustine and WORT Music Department

Bowie still rules the chart, but electronic artists like OneOhTrix Point Never, Grimes, Tortoise, Adrian Younge, St. Germain, Caravan Palace and Madison’s own Caustic make good showings this week as we begin to see the very first signs of longer days. Debuts on our top 30 this week include the latest from Freakwater, Mark McGuire, […]

WORT Music Charts for the week of Feb. 22, 2016

February 23, 2016 by Sybil Augustine and WORT Music Department

Here’s what’s been playing on our airwaves and stream for the past week. Women are on top with the British all-girl Savages, coming to Madison on Friday, May 20 at High Noon Saloon and Lizzo, who was just in town last Friday at Majestic Theatre. Cloud Cult‘s Saturday night party at the Barrymore was also celebrated, as […]

WORT Music Charts for Feb. 29, 2016

March 7, 2016 by Sybil Augustine and WORT Music Department

WORT, Madison Charts for the week beginning February 29, 2016 top 30 1 DROIDS ATTACK Sci-Fi Or Die! Riff Reaper 2 CLOUD CULT The Seeker Earthology 3 LEMAITRE 1749 EP Capitol 4 KEYS N KRATES Midnite Mass – EP 5 LIZZO Big Grrrl Small World Self-Released 6 BLACK SABBATH Black Sabbath (Deluxe Edition) Rhino 7 […]

Music Charts for the week of March 7-14, 2016

March 15, 2016 by Sybil Augustine and WORT Music Department

Here are our charts and new adds for the week including top 30, rock, rpm/techno/industrial, world/international, jazz, and loud rock/metal/hardcore. WORT, Madison Charts for the week beginning March 7, 2016 top 30 1 DROIDS ATTACK Sci-Fi Or Die Self-Released 2 CLOUD CULT The Seeker Earthology 3 LEMAITRE 1749 [EP] Astralwerks 4 KEYS N KRATES Midnite […]

WORT Charts: Hendrik Meurkens tops in Jazz this week

March 24, 2016 by WORT Music Department

Here are our Music Charts for the week of March 15-21, 2016 We got some immediate action here on great new adds from Kitten Forever, Iggy Pop and Black Mountain!! I’m also happy to see Madison’s own Droids Attack on top of our Loud Rock charts as well as the Top 30. Lots of other great stuff hanging […]

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