Celebrate Record Store Day with WORT DJs!

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.

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, )

Digital Production Director: Aaron Scholz – aaron@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 celebrates the 11th Annual International Record Store Day on Saturday, April 21 with live DJs spinning all day at Sugar Shack Records and several other area music purveyors. Since 2007, Record Store Day has been a celebration of the unique culture of independently-owned record stores.

WORT DJs will again be live in person at several area stores to spin tunes and entertain shoppers throughout the day. The Punk Kitten kicks things off from 8:30-10 am at Strictly Discs, 1900 Monroe St. From noon-4 pm, The Mosh Pit‘s Mike & Matt take over Ear Wax, 254 W. Gilman at State Street. And a whole slate of WORT DJs will be spinning their favorite cuts all day from 8:30am – 6:30 pm at Sugar Shack Records, 2301 Atwood Avenue.

Here’s the lineup at Sugar Shack:

“Gary’s Psychedelic Breakfast” will kick things off Saturday morning at 8:30 am with DJ Dave 3000 from Kosmik Radiation and Cardinal Din from Feed Me Weird Things.
“Get Back to Earth” will follow up at 10:30 am with Katie and Tessa from Another Green World.
“Cranking It Up” hits the air at 12:30 pm with Vinyl Richie from the Vinyl Resting Place.
At 2:30 pm Rev. Velveteen and Bad Sister Heidi from Psychoacoustics will play some of their wackiest favorites.
Wrapping up the last set, Friday On My Mind hosts DJ el Serpentine of The Rattlesnake Shake and Bill the Walkin’ Doctor from Beat Orgy will start their own spin at 4:30 pm.

Record Store Day originated in 2007 at a meeting of independent record store owners and employees as a way of raising the profile of their businesses and allowing them to remain independent and unique. Now, events are held on every continent except Antarctica. So come on out Saturday to Sugar Shack, Strictly Discs, Ear Wax and other participating stores – including MadCity Music Exchange and Jiggy Jamz at their new locations – and have fun with WORT while supporting your local music taste-makers and economy.