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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!

If you’re thinking of holiday gifts for music lovers, check out some popular new releases getting airplay on WORT. From rock to international, from metal to jazz, electronic, folk, blues and pop, we spin it all! You’ll find most of them in your local brick & mortar record store, plus get hi-fidelity advice from ever-hip and knowledgeable record store clerks. MadCity Music, B-Side Records, Strictly Discs, Sugar Shack and Ear Wax each have unique collections of new and used records to tempt your earbuds.

Here are our overall top 30, new adds, heavy metal, electronic dance, jazz and world music charts for the week ending Dec. 12.

TOP 30
Rank Artist Record Label
1 NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING BIRDS Who Built The Moon? Sourmash/Caroline
2 MORRISSEY Low In High School BMG
3 PROTOMARTYR Relatives In Descent Domino
4 FEVER RAY Plunge Mute
5 NONA HENDRYX AND GARY LUCAS The World Of Captain Beefheart Knitting Factory
6 OLIVER Full Circle Interscope
7 KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD Polygondwanaland ATO
8 UNCLE ACID AND THE DEADBEATS Vol. 1 Rise Above
9 COURTNEY BARNETT AND KURT VILE Lotta Sea Lice Matador
10 OFFA REX The Queen Of Hearts Nonesuch
11 ALGIERS The Underside Of Power Matador
12 OCS Memory Of A Cut Off Head Castle Face
13 BETTE SMITH Jetlagger Big Legal Mess
14 E1SBAR Looser Futurism Polar Vortex
15 ARIEL PINK Dedicated to Bobby Jameson Mexican Summer
16 GIZMODROME Gizmodrome E A R / GmBh
17 METZ Strange Peace Sub Pop
18 BAD SIGNS, THE Black Magic Moments [EP] Number Nine Creative Cult
19 GIRAFFAGE Too Real Counter
20 GWAR The Blood of Gods Metal Blade
21 WEATHER STATION, THE The Weather Station Paradise Of Bachelors
22 ROBYN HITCHCOCK Robyn Hitchcock Yep Roc
23 GALACTIC COWBOYS Long Way Back To The Moon Mascot
24 WOLF PARADE Cry Cry Cry Sub Pop
25 SHILPA RAY Door Girl Northern Spy
26 ST. VINCENT MASSEDUCTION Loma Vista
27 LCD SOUNDSYSTEM American Dream DFA/Columbia
28 QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE Villains Matador
29 BECK Colors Capitol
30 DEATH FROM ABOVE Outrage! Is Now Last Gang/Warner Bros.

TOP ADDS
Rank Artist Record Label
1 MINUS 5, THE Dear December Yep Roc
2 MAKING MOVIES You Are Another Me [EP] 2-Mar
3 HOLD STEADY, THE Entitlement Crew [EP] Frenchkiss
4 VAN MORRISON Versatile Sony/Legacy
5 SWINGIN’ UTTERS Drowning In The Sea, Rising With The Sun Fat Wreck Chords
6 SCIZZORMAN Buried Pleasures [EP] Self-Released
7 LOUIE FONTAINE AND THE STARLIGHT SEARCHERS The Sun Ain’t Black Self-Released
8 L.A. LAW Law & Order Burger
9 THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS “I Left My Body” [Single] Idlewild

HEAVY ROCK
Rank Artist Record Label
1 SONS OF APOLLO Psychotic Symphony Inside Out
2 MOONSPELL Seventeen Fifty-Five (1755) Napalm
3 CAVALERA CONSPIRACY Psychosis Napalm
4 COMMUNIC WHere Echoes Gather AFM
5 CANNIBAL CORPSE Red Before Black Metal Blade
6 CONVERGE The Dusk in Us Epitaph
7 ENTHEOS Dark Future Spinefarm
8 IMPUREZA “Leyenda Negra” [Single] Season Of Mist
9 GALACTIC COWBOYS Long Way Back To The Moon Mascot
10 ANNIHILATOR For The Demented Silver Lining

ELECTRONIC
Rank Artist Record Label
1 FEVER RAY Plunge Mute
2 GIRAFFAGE Too Real Counter
3 OLIVER Full Circle Interscope
4 ODESZA A Moment Apart Counter
5 KMFDM Hell Yeah earMUSIC
6 TRICKY Ununiform False Idols
7 ANCIENT ASTRONAUTS AND AZEEM Broken Puppets Switchstance
8 CARL CRAIG Versus Infine Music/Planet E
9 TOURIST Wash [EP] Londoner
10 COM TRUISE Iteration Ghostly International

JAZZ
Rank Artist Record Label
1 CORY WEEDS Let’s Groove: The Music of Earth Wind & Fire Cellar Live
2 HIROMI AND EDMAR CASTANEDA Live in Montreal Concord
3 ARTURO O’FARRILL AND CHUCHO VALDES Familia: Tribute to Bebo & Chico Motéma
4 REGGIE YOUNG Young Street RGY Entertainment
5 BRIAN BLADE AND THE FELLOWSHIP Body and Shadow Blue Note
6 KATAYOUN GOUDARZI, SHUJAAT KHAN, KEVIN HAYS, AND TIM RIES Will You? Tames
7 HAROLD MABERN To Love and Be Loved Smoke Sessions
8 MIKE STERN Trip Heads Up
9 DAVE STRYKER Strykin’ Ahead Strikezone
10 VERVE JAZZ ENSEMBLE Swing-A-Nova Verve

WORLD
Rank Artist Record Label
1 LEE SCRATCH PERRY AND SUBATOMIC SOUND SYSTEM Super Ape Returns To Conquer Subatomic Sound
2 CHUCK FOSTER Rebel Dub Catch Me Time
3 LADAMA Ladama Six Degrees
4 MAGNETICS, THE Jamaican Ska Get Up
5 TRIO DA KALI AND KRONOS QUARTET Ladilikan World Circuit
6 ANTIBALAS Where the Gods Are in Peace Daptone
7 MDOU MOCTAR Sousoume Tamachek Sahelsounds
8 SONGHOY BLUES Résistance Fat Possum
9 GOGOL BORDELLO Seekers and Finders Cooking Vinyl
10 ZIGGY MARLEY We Are The People Tour Tuff Gong International

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