8 O'Clock Buzz, Author at WORT 89.9 FM

Contact Information

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.

Native Waorani tribe in Ecuador win against Amazon forest development

June 12, 2019 by 8 O'Clock Buzz

The Ecuadorian government’s plans to sell a half million acres of Amazonian rainforest to oil companies has been blocked by the legal rights of the indigenous Waorani tribe, and by the legal rights of nature itself. Reynard Loki has been following this conflict and has written an article in Common Dreams about the history and […]

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June 12, 2019 by 8 O'Clock Buzz

Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Watchdog from the group “Beyond Nuclear“, talks about their latest efforts to prevent several “consolidated interim storage” sites in New Mexico and Texas.

Makaya McCraven at Isthmus Jazz Fest

June 10, 2019 by 8 O'Clock Buzz

WORT is pleased to support the 2019 Isthmus Jazz Festival at the UW Union Terrace taking place this weekend, June 14th and 15th. Artists range from local favorites to internationally renowned groups and musicians. The full lineup for the weekend shows in available on www.isthmusjazzfestival.com. Makaya McCraven is a drummer, producer, and beat-scientist, and he’s […]

Get a Box of Fresh-Grown Art

June 10, 2019 by 8 O'Clock Buzz

Imagine opening up a box from your favorite CSA farm, only instead of finding a head of lettuce, tomatoes or kohlrabi inside, you find a lithograph, a photograph made with a nineteenth century camera, or an original oil painting. Now imagine that you get a similar box every month. That’s the idea behind the Arts […]

Rep. Mark Pocan on Impeachment

June 10, 2019 by 8 O'Clock Buzz

To impeach, or not to impeach. With all apologies to William Shakespeare, that is the question roiling Congress this week. Robert Mueller’s long-awaited report has fueled an intense debate. Centrist Democratic leaders, such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, publicly worry that, with a Republican Senate that has already refused to convict, a failed impeachment attempt […]

Colombia Support Network does what the name implies

June 5, 2019 by 8 O'Clock Buzz

Eunice Gibson and Adeline Zanora from the Colombia Support Network about their group’s activities to support the people of Colombia, who have been killed and displaced by paramilitary, drug lords, and corporations for decades. There is a two day conference this week Friday and Saturday at Edgewood College to learn and discuss issues related to […]

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