Jordy Nelson, Colin Kaepernick Take a Knee during NFL Season Opening Game

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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.

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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!

It was 90 degrees and humid afternoon when the Green Bay Packers jogged onto the EverBank Field in Jacksonville, Florida, to play the Jaguars. The Packers beat Jacksonville 27-23 to start off the new season.

Packer fans were treated to a great opening game: Quarterback Aaron Rodgers shot amazing bullets down field and ran for a touchdown. Running back Eddie Lacy looked downright Walter Payton-esque with the strong arming of linebackers.

Wide Receiver Jordy Nelson is back after a year out due to injury and you actually couldn’t tell from his playmaking. Nelson scored a touchdown, too, a moment that made him pause on his knee.

The Offensive Line did not miss Josh Sitton, a pro-bowler who was traded at the last minute. As long as the O-Line can defend Rodgers in the pocket, coach Mike McCarthy is going to look like the freaking genius that he is for that personnel decision.

And on defense, well, Clay Matthews is still a monster. The Secondary was energetic, though sloppy, at times. Luckily, the Packers definitely got a few calls in their favor when it came to defensive holding, as the refs let them get away several obvious penalties.

Special Teams was a disaster, what with missed punts that left the Packers starting at their own end zone a few times. Time management was stellar, as the Packers took their time going down field and ran out the clock in the Fourth Quarter.

So Packers fans have reason to be jubilant: the Offense gelled, the Defense hummed and the Packers are top of the NFC-North. Chances look good for the Packers to win yet another NFC-North Title.

Sportscasters are saying it was a close game, but it wasn’t that close. You know how the newscasters like to blow things out of proportion, no matter the spectacle.

The Packers opening day coincided with the League’s commemoration of September 11th terrorist attacks of 2001.

“We’re a patriotic league,” says NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, in an interview with NBC’s Matt Lauer.

For once, I agree with Goodell: the National Football League is very patriotic, if you define patriotism as loyalty to official US government policies. Flags waved, jets flew over stadiums, the Veterans and military personnel took the field as crowds saluted them.

Patriotism, though, can also be support for the nation’s ideals of equality. And these two flanks of patriotism were on display this opening weekend of the football season.

If Goodell represents the jingoism of knee-jerk patriotism, Colin Kaepernick, a quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, represents the patriotism Langston Hughes described in his poem “Let America Be America Again.”

Kaepernick has been silently protesting police brutality and racism by sitting or kneeling down during the National Anthem. It all started during the preseason.