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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!

Icelandic Volcanology with Thor Thordarson

April 8, 2021 by Perpetual Notion Machine

WORT 89.9FM Madison · Icelandic Volcanology with Thor Thordarson Why is Iceland so volcanically active? Will the recent earthquakes and eruptions be another possible cataclysmic tear in the earth’s crust, a forewarning of an explosive blowout like Eyjafjallajökull in 2010, or a spectator-friendly event like Kilauea in Hawaii? In this edition of Perpetual Notion […]

Climate Scientist Kimberly Nicholas and Environmentally Friendly Cats

April 1, 2021 by Perpetual Notion Machine

Tonight the Perpetual Notion Machine welcomes professor and climate scientist Kimberly Nicholas, author of the book Under the Sky We Make: How to Be Human in a Warming World. Professor Nicholas discusses her book and how to make changes in daily life that will positively affect your personal climate budgets and environment. Plus PNM host […]

Life on Earth and Other Planets

March 18, 2021 by Perpetual Notion Machine

In general, everybody probably believes that life exists somewhere else on another planet. Our telescopes keep getting better and better at finding exoplanets orbiting other star systems. And a few fall within the range of orbit as Earth does around our sun. But what kinds of life will there be on those other planets, if […]

The Sleeper Population of Spiny Water Flea in Lake Mendota

March 4, 2021 by Perpetual Notion Machine

WORT 89.9FM Madison · The Sleeper Population of Spiny Water Flea in Lake Mendota A new report in the journal BioScience finds that it’s not uncommon for “sleeper populations” of invasive species to lie low in new environments for years or even decades. These small, self-sustaining populations of nonnative species can exist […]

Earthquake Risk (Rebroadcast from Feb. 4, 2010)

February 25, 2021 by Perpetual Notion Machine

With everything that has happened in the past year, what are the chances Wisconsin will suffer the devastation of an earthquake? Not very likely. Tonight, the Perpetual Notion Machine looks into this possibility by rebroadcasting an old show that originally aired on February 4, 2010. Our guest on that show was Chuck DeMets, a geophysicist […]

The Effect of Systemic Racism

February 18, 2021 by Perpetual Notion Machine

This week, Perpetual Notion Machine explores systemic racism. In light of Black History Month, host Anita Nsubuga discusses the effects of racism, specifically systemic racism on people of color (with emphasis on black Americans) with guest Tiffany Green. Joined by Dr. Tiffany Green, Ph.D, assistant professor from the University of Wisconsin, Population Health Sciences, they […]

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