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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!

WORT and the Champ

June 4, 2016 by WORT 89.9FM, Norman Stockwell and Stu Levitan

Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr. on January 17, 1942 in Louisville, Kentucky), passed away Friday evening, June 3, 2016, after a short hospitalization for a respiratory illness. He had suffered from Parkinson’s disease for many years. As the world mourns “The Greatest of All Time”, staff and volunteers at community radio WORT-FM recall […]

Remembering Longtime Radio Literature Volunteer, Poet and Activist Dan...

June 2, 2016 by Norman Stockwell

This story originally appeared June 01, 2016 on The Progressive website. Madison, Wisconsin, and the world have lost a great voice for peace and justice. Poet and activist Daniel Kunene died this past week at the age of 93. Kunene was a professor emeritus in the University of Wisconsin Department of African Languages and Literature […]

Book Event: People Get Ready

February 15, 2016 by Norman Stockwell and WORT 89.9FM

John Nichols and Bob McChesney have written a new book, People Get Ready, and they want WORTians to be the first to hear about it at a special, free event, Friday, February 19, 7 pm, at the downtown Madison Public Library, co-sponsored by the Wisconsin Book Festival. Nichols and McChesney are household names for WORT listeners. […]

WORT Will Broadcast Live from the Martin Luther King Day Events

January 14, 2016 by Norman Stockwell and WORT 89.9FM

This year will be the 36th annual State of Wisconsin commemoration of the birth of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – the oldest state commemoration in the U.S. – and WORT community radio, in cooperation with Wisconsin Public Radio and TV, will broadcast the ceremony live from the Capitol Rotunda at 12noon in […]

Eclipse of the Assassins

December 29, 2015 by Norman Stockwell and A Public Affair

What are the connections between the 1984 murder of Mexican journalist Manuel Buendía and the U.S. proxy wars in Central America in the 1980s? A brand new book by journalists Russell Bartley and Sylvia Erickson Bartley looks at this question and many other connected issues in the last years of the Cold War. Their 30-year […]

Former Breakfast Special Host Chris Ward passes

October 23, 2015 by WORT 89.9FM and Norman Stockwell

WORT has learned that former programmer Chris Ward has passed away. Ward died of a heart attack at the age of 60 in Washington, DC where he lived with his wife, Saaraliisa Ylitalo. Chris Ward was a popular figure on WORT in the early 1980s, hosting the Breakfast Special from 1984-85, a rock program called Tirebiter’s […]

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