Mel & Floyd, 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!

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International Men’s Day Special

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This week on Mel & Floyd: Bull market for brown shirts & white sheets; Voting districts connected via wormholes vs Mel’s maps; Christmas shopping tips; A beer stream in Hawaii; The tyranny of Jimmy Carter’s sweater; McCarthy drones on; The dirt on Gary Keiller; Some back story on Floyd; And other Random Topics; Subscribe to […]

Who Moved the Poop?

November 12, 2021 by Mel & Floyd

This week on Mel & Floyd: Mel gets boosted; Rodgers’ weasel word non-apology; A possible evolution-based rationale for mask resistance; Compassion for ugly-eye people; Vaccines versus exorcisms; Black Friday preview; GOP apparently OK with wife-strangling senate candidate; The latest from Estonia; SmartyPants’ strict rules for Christmas trees; And other Random Topics; Subscribe to the Mel […]

Cool California Condor Clones

November 5, 2021 by Mel & Floyd

This week on Mel & Floyd: Monsterism as a side-effect; The amount of bluegrass in Kentucky; Freudian Wonder Woman comic; Athanasius of Alexandria to sub for Aaron Rodgers on Sunday?; A new list of banned books; Bible study with Smarty Pants; Tolkien & C.S. Lewis on religion; Illegal campaign contributions; Asexual reproduction in California Condors; […]

Thin the Herd!

October 29, 2021 by Mel & Floyd

This week on Mel & Floyd: Ghost stories and herd thinning; Expanding child labor in Wisconsin; More Fossil Fuel Obfuscation; Words banned by the WIsconsin GOP; Wizard unemployment and flightless birds in New Zealand; Mummy news; Pre-Covid Pants; California worm-blobs; And other Random Topics; Subscribe to the Mel & Floyd Podcast on itunes and never […]

Chinese Towel Conspiracy

October 23, 2021 by Mel & Floyd

This week on Mel & Floyd: Plant-based Pants?; Pink lemonade as a medicine delivery vehicle; James Brown’s “cape guy”; A preview of the Fox Weather Channel; Another installment of “Royals Watch”; A “Go-F***-Me” for Joe Manchin; The “My Pillow Guy’s” latest delusion; The latest shortage: lackeys; And other Random Topics; Subscribe to the Mel & […]

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