Interview with Indie Bass Legend Mike Watt

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, )

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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.

WORT disk jockey and long-time music journalist Sal Serio (“D.J. el Serpentine”) had the opportunity to speak via telephone with indie bass legend Mike Watt, prior to Watt’s performance as a member of IL SOGNO DEL MARIANIO at the High Noon Saloon on Monday, Sept, 29. Serpentine first met Watt over 30 years ago on the Minutemen’s historic “Double Nickels On The Dime” tour, and has interviewed and hung out with Watt quite a few times over the years and on various tours, making this conversation more intimate and casual than many of these sorts of “interviews” typically are. Please listen to WORT 89.9 FM on Thursday, Sept 25, at approximately 8:30 pm during “Psychoacoustics” for Part 1 of this special, and Part 2 on Friday, Sept 26, at approximately 3:30 pm during “Who Cooks For You”.

Il Sogno Del Marinaio is music collaboration, from punk to jazz, from straight rock to avant garde, from chaos to harmony.

Il Sogno Del Marinaio (in Italian means “The Sailor’s Dream”) is a trio made of Andrea Belfi, Stefano Pilia & Mike Watt and they will do their first tour of the USA to support the August 26, 2014 release of their second album “Canto Secondo” this fall from September 10 to November 1, 53 gigs in 53 days. The tour comes to the High Noon Saloon in Madison WI, on Monday, September 29, 2014.

Click here for the entire tour schedule.

Some info about Il Sogno Del Marinaio:
Andrea Belfi (drums) and Stefano Pilia (guitar) are from Italy. They are young talented musicians, composers, artists and performers. A very interesting story started when in November of 2009 these guys invited Mike Watt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Watt) to play six gigs in their homeland. Even though they’re both 21 years younger than Watt, all three collaborated to write songs, preform gigs and record an album, “La Busta Gialla” in the middle of these six gigs which they supported later with a European tour when it was released. With this, a successful band Il Sogno Del Marinaio was born.

Il Sogno Del Marinaio band member info

Drummer Andrea Belfi – http://www.chocolateguns.com/
(Carla Bozulich, David Grubbs, Angela Bulloch, Hobocombo, B/B/S, The Swifter, Rosolina Mar)

Guitarist Stefano Pilia – http://blindsuncrows.com/
(Rokia Traore, David Grubbs, Angela Bulloch, In Zaire, Maximo Volume)

Bassist Mike Watt – http://mikewatt.com/
(Minutemen, Iggy & The Stooges, Dos, Cuz, Mike Watt + The Missingmen, Mike Watt + The Secondmen, Brother’s Sister’s Daughter, Banyan, fIREHOSE, etc and collaborated with Sonic Youth, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Dave Grohl, Ed Vedder, etc.)