Insurgent Radio Kiosk, 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.

Kiosk for Friday, December 6

December 6, 2019 by Insurgent Radio Kiosk

This is the Insurgent Radio Kiosk for Thursday, November 28th Hightower Commentary Action Calendar ****** How Trump’s poverty subsidy enriches the rich Breaking news: Donald Trump has inadvertently said something true! He recently exulted that his special tax incentives to spur investment in poverty projects have gone “beyond anything that anybody… even thought.” So true! […]

Kiosk for Thursday, December 5

December 5, 2019 by Insurgent Radio Kiosk

This is the Insurgent Radio Kiosk for Tuesday, November 26th Hightower Commentary Action Calendar ****** How Greedy Billionaires Become Richer Greedy Billionaires Years ago, a Texas legislator who was known to be bribable explained his ethical framework as opportunistic: “I seen my chances, and I took ‘em,” he said. Likewise, such hustlers as Dan Gilbert […]

Kiosk for Wednesday, December 4

December 4, 2019 by Insurgent Radio Kiosk

This is the Insurgent Radio Kiosk for Wednesday, December 3rd Hightower Commentary Action Calendar ****** Which food future will you choose? America certainly has an abundance of food (even though many Americans do not), yet we face a momentous choice of whether to pursue a food future rooted in the ethic of sustainable agriCULTURE – […]

Kiosk for Tuesday, December 3

December 3, 2019 by Insurgent Radio Kiosk

This is the Insurgent Radio Kiosk for Tuesday, December 3rd Hightower Commentary Action Calendar ****** When and where was the first Thanksgiving Feast? Let’s talk Turkey! No, not the Butterball sitting in the Oval Office. I’m talking about the real thing, the big bird, 46 million of which we Americans will devour on this Thanksgiving […]

Kiosk for Monday, December 2

December 2, 2019 by Insurgent Radio Kiosk

This is the Insurgent Radio Kiosk for Monday, December 2nd Community Commentary Action Calendar ****** Lost Science of Money Hi, this is Mary Helen. We are looking for concerned citizens to participate in a Nationwide Citizens Commission on the Monetary system and Just Money. You might think, “Mo-ne-ta-ry system? Thanks anyway. I’ll sit this one […]

Kiosk for Friday, November 29

November 29, 2019 by Insurgent Radio Kiosk

This is the Insurgent Radio Kiosk for Friday, November 29th Community Commentary Action Calendar ****** Don’t Do Animal “Gifting” This is the time of year when we receive full color, glossy catalogs from Heifer International and organizations like them, asking for donations to send live animals as “gifts” to help alleviate hunger and poverty in […]

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