Fresh Friday Music Specials!

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.

Staying in tonight? We’ll keep you warm and cozy!! Tune in and snuggle up with your friends on community radio. It’s free, it’s safe, and you can comment and follow along on the playlists right on our website.

From Bill Clark and Dave Watts of Blues Cruise:

Tonight between the hours of 6 & 8 pm on Dave Watts’ Blues Cruise I’ll be completing my Blues Tour of America in Austin, TX from whence sprang the blues revival of the 1980’s. The usual suspects will be represented. I hope you will listen in at WORT fm – 89.9 on your Madison radio dial or at WORTFM.org on the internet. This web address will also provide access to the station archives in which you will find shows up to two weeks old. Be there or beware!

Next up on Something Else, it’s the best songs that came out last year as curated by the encyclopedic Harry Rag:

BEST SONGS of 2018
this Friday night 8-11 pm
Exclusively on wort radio
On the dial at 89.9 fm, Stream/archived at wortfm.org
This should be a very dynamite show!

And following that, Gregg Williard hosts a special Fiction Jones:

Tune in Friday night, 1/18 from 11 pm-midnight for part 1 of Fyodor Dostoevsky‘s 1864 novella “Notes from the Underground” with Gregg Williard, and music from Lucrecia Dalt! Now live streamed from Madison to Moscow!

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