Joseph Crawford Mrazek, Author at WORT 89.9 FM

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.

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!

Charles Walker Band brings the funk to WORT Block Party

May 19, 2016 by WORT Music Department and Joseph Crawford Mrazek

The Charles Walker Band (aka CWB) will bring its “neo-funk” swagger to the WORT Block Party this Sunday. CWB is set to take the stage on MLK Boulevard at 4:15 p.m. This well-traveled Milwaukee-based band blends gospel, soul, R & B, blues, funk and pop into a tasty gumbo of sound. Winners of the 2013 […]

Mal-O-Dua brings eclectic string sound to WORT Block Party

May 16, 2016 by WORT Music Department and Joseph Crawford Mrazek

Mal-O-Dua brings its slack-key guitar and French-swing string music to the WORT Block Party on Sunday, May 22nd. The Madison-based duo will start its acoustic set at 12:30 p.m. on the MLK Boulevard stage. Django Reinhardt meets Merle Travis is how this eclectic pair describe their sound. Cedric “CED” Baetche, a native of Reims […]

Black Marigold opens show at Sunday’s WORT Block Party

May 15, 2016 by WORT Music Department and Joseph Crawford Mrazek

Black Marigold, a Madison-based wind quintet, will open the music festivities at the 19th annual WORT Block Party this Sunday, May 22nd. These fun players of serious music will take the stage on MLK Boulevard at 11:15 a.m. Known by the acronym BMW5, Black Marigold are dynamic advocates of new instrumental music by living composers, […]

WORT posters available at Gallery Night Friday

May 2, 2016 by WORT Music Department and Joseph Crawford Mrazek

On Friday, May 6th, WORT 89.9 FM Community Radio joins the explosion of art in Madison during Gallery Night. A retrospective exhibit of fine-arts prints, created specially for WORT pledge drives, will be held at the Yellow Rose Gallery, located at 122 State Street (2nd floor), from 5:00 till 9:00 p.m. The exhibit features art […]

Parched Eagle Brewpub: WORT Underwriter & Community Beer Resource...

April 22, 2016 by WORT Music Department and Joseph Crawford Mrazek

Jim Goronson may have been destined to become a brewmaster. His parents gave him a Mr. Beer homebrewing kit for his 29th birthday. He was already a beer connoisseur by then, favoring imports and American examples of what used to be called “microbrews.” After 13 years of brewing his own batches, Goronson turned pro, encouraged […]

Pegasus Games: WORT Underwriter & Community Fun Resource

April 2, 2016 by Joseph Crawford Mrazek

“A [person] only plays when, in the full meaning of the word, (s)he is a [person], and (s)he is only completely a [person] when (s)he plays.” – Friedrich Schiller, “On the Aesthetic Education of Man” Pioneering Dutch cultural historian Johan Huizinga argues in Homo ludens (Playing Human, 1938) that play is primary to – indeed […]

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