Byrne-ing Up The Charts!

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.

David Byrne – producer, label maven, collaborator and Talking Head – visits Madison again this Wednesday for a sold-out show at the Orpheum Theater. You can enjoy music from his brand new album and more on WORT, whether you’re attending the show or not. Scroll down to see all the new music we’ve been spinning on our Top 30, jazz, world music, electronica and heavy rock charts, now including heavy metal top adds!

pictured: David Byrne
photo credit: Frazer Harrison / Getty Images

WORT, Madison Charts for the week ending May 8, 2018

top 30
Artist Record Label
1 DR DOG Critical Equation We Buy Gold/Thirty Tigers
2 YO LA TENGO There’s A Riot Going On Matador
3 BRAZILIAN GIRLS Let’s Make Love Six Degrees
4 DAVID BYRNE American Utopia Nonesuch
5 LA LUZ Floating Features Hardly Art
6 JULIANA HATFIELD Juliana Hatfield Sings Olivia Newton-John American Laundromat
7 TY SEGALL Freedom’s Goblin Drag City
8 SUNFLOWER BEAN Twentytwo In Blue Mom + Pop
9 A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS Pinned Dead Oceans
10 AMEN DUNES Freedom Sacred Bones
11 BREEDERS, THE All Nerve 4AD
12 GUIDED BY VOICES Space Gun GBV Inc.
13 AMAZING, THE In Transit Partisan
14 SUUNS Felt Secretly Canadian
15 UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA Sex & Food Jagjaguwar
16 HOT SNAKES Jericho Sirens Sub Pop
17 JANELLE MONAE Dirty Computer Bad Boy
18 ADRIAN YOUNGE Voices Of Gemma Linear Labs
19 DAMNED, THE Evil Spirits Search and Destroy/Spinefarm
20 MOONDOGGIES, THE A Love Sleeps Deep Hardly Art
21 BUFFALO TOM Quiet And Peace Schoolkids/Scrawny
22 NATHANIEL RATELIFF AND THE NIGHT SWEATS Tearing At The Seams Stax
23 PANDORAS, THE Hey! It’s The Pandoras Burger
24 NIHILIST CHEERLEADER Riot, Right? Perfect Attendance
25 PARQUET COURTS Wide Awake! [Advance Tracks] Rough Trade
26 FRANKIE COSMOS Vessel Sub Pop
27 BEN HARPER AND CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE No Mercy In This Land Anti-
28 JIM JAMES Uniform Distortion [Advance Tracks] ATO
29 DECEMBERISTS, THE I’ll Be Your Girl Capitol
30 BEACH HOUSE Seven (7) [Advance Tracks] Sub Pop

world
Artist Record Label
1 DARSHAN Raza Chant
2 TURBANS, THE The Turbans Six Degrees
3 FEMI KUTI One People One World Knitting Factory
4 ORQUESTA AKOKAN Orquesta Akokan Daptone
5 CATRIN FINCH AND SECKOU KEITA Soar Bendigedig
6 YIDDISH GLORY: THE LOST SONGS OF WORLD WAR II VARIOUS ARTISTS Six Degrees
7 BOUBACAR TRAORE Dounia Tabolo LusAfrica
8 IMARHAN Temet City Slang
9 NORDIC RAGA Nordic Raga Riverboat
10 COLLIE BUDDZ “Legal Now” [Single] Harper Digital

jazz
Artist Record Label
1 KURT ELLING The Questions Okeh
2 RENEE ROSNES Beloved Of The Sky Smoke Sessions
3 BILL FRISELL Music Is OKeh
4 MILES DAVIS AND JOHN COLTRANE The Final Tour Sony/Legacy
5 KENNY BARRON QUINTET Concentric Circles Blue Note
6 NELS CLINE 4, THE Currents, Constellations Blue Note
7 DAVE LIEBMAN AND JOHN STOWELL Petite Fleur: The Music of Sidney Bechet Origin
8 EDDIE HENDERSON Be Cool Smoke Sessions
9 JOEY ALEXANDER Joey. Monk. Live! Motéma
10 VAN MORRISON AND JOEY DEFRANCESCO You’re Driving Me Crazy Sony/Legacy

electronic
Artist Record Label
1 BRAZILIAN GIRLS Let’s Make Love Six Degrees
2 QNTAL VIII – Nachtblume Metropolis
3 FAKEAR All Glows Counter
4 MOBY Everything Was Beautiful And Nothing Hurt Mute
5 SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO Murmurations Wichita
6 KASBO Places We Don’t Know Foreign Family Collective
7 CUT CHEMIST Die Cut A Stable Sound
8 WHAT SO NOT Not All The Beautiful Things Counter
9 TOKIMONSTA Lune Rouge Remixed Young Art
10 DANIEL AVERY Song For Alpha Mute

heavy rock
Artist Record Label
1 KALMAH Palo Candlelight
2 KAMELOT The Shadow Theory Napalm
3 MONSTER MAGNET Mindfucker Napalm
4 NUSE The Pain Collection Cornhead
5 STRYPER God Damn Evil Frontiers
6 ZEKE Hellbender Relapse
7 BEHEMOTH Messe Noire: Live Satanist Metal Blade
8 KOBRA AND THE LOTUS Prevail II Napalm
9 LECHEROUS NOCTURNE Occultaclysmic Willowtip
10 SEPTIC TANK Rotting Civilisation Rise Above

heavy adds
Artist Record Label
1 AMORPHIS Queen Of Time Nuclear Blast
2 ANTHRAX Kings Among Scotland Megaforce
3 TRAUMA As The World Dies Rivet
4 LUCA PRINCIOTTA BAND Rough Blue Metalville
5 GUS G Fearless AFM
6 DEAFHEAVEN “Honeycomb” [Single] Anti-/Epitaph

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