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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.

ChiliOcracy 5 at Harmony Bar

March 20, 2019 by WORT 89.9FM

Tired of the same old boring elections? Join WORT at the Harmony Bar from 3 to 6pm on Sunday, April 7th for ChiliOcracy 5, featuring fantastic chili from area restaurants. Enjoy some foot stompin’ bluegrass from The Ad Hoc String Band! Restaurants will compete for the title “Supreme Commander of Chili” and your votes decide […]

89.9 Social Club Pizza Party

March 15, 2019 by WORT 89.9FM

Join WORT Volunteers and Staff at the Mason Lounge (416 S. Park St.) on Wednesday, March 20 for a Pizza Party at 6:30 pm, followed by The Old Tin Can String Band at 8:30. Falbo Bros. Pizzeria, right next door on South Park, is generously donating their fantastic pizza–enough to feed all attendees. If you’ve […]

Jimmy Buffett Tribute Heated Up the Harmony

February 24, 2019 by WORT 89.9FM

Chuck Bayuk and the Drunken Sailors played a great afternoon of music by Jimmy Buffett on Sunday, February 24th to benefit WORT Community Radio. WORT would like to thank Chuck and the boys, as well as Harmony Bar and Grill on Atwood Ave. for hosting the event. It was a cold, blustery day, but it […]

World Radio Day Gathering at Parched Eagle Taproom

February 13, 2019 by Sybil Augustine

WORT celebrated World Radio Day 2019 at the Parched Eagle Taproom, 1444 East Washington Ave. This world-wide event brings volunteers and listeners together to appreciate independent, noncommercial, community radio. We enjoyed live performance from the Handphibians and spoken word from Flowpoetry, as well as WORT DJs Helena White (On the Horizon) and Kayla Kush (Kayla’s […]

First Charts of 2019!!

January 22, 2019 by Sybil Augustine

All the new music that’s fit for a new year is spinning on WORT! Here’s how we ended a very eventful year. Of course, many late 2018 releases remain as DJs present their “Best Of 2018” lists in December and January, so be sure to check our on-demand audio archives and playlists for those Best […]

Old Tin Can String Band Kicks Off WORT Block Party May 20

May 18, 2018 by WORT Music Department

The Old Tin Can String Band will be the first to hit the stage at 11 am to kick off the WORT Block Party on Sunday May 20. The band started in 2006 when ace fiddler Shauncey Ali tapped WORT’s own Chris Powers to sing and play a multitude of instruments (mandolin, bouzouki, guitar, etc.) for […]

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