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!

Back to the Country

With themes such as politics, work, home or around the music of a particular person, host Bill Malone puts emphasis on “classic” and “alternative” country music – what you can’t hear on Top 40 radio.

Texas In Their Souls

June 17, 2020 by Music Department

Since publishing the dissertation that became the eminently readable (and recently updated) book Country Music USA in 1968, Bill Malone has become a widely recognized and respected country music scholar. For over 23 years Madison and South Central Wisconsin were fortunate to have Bill grace the WORT airwaves Wednesday mornings with ‘Back to the Country’; […]

February 89.9 Social Club PopUp Party

February 4, 2020 by WORT 89.9FM

February’s 89.9 Social Club PopUp Party is at The Malt House, 2609 East Washington Avenue (E Wash at Milwaukee St.), on Wednesday February 19, 6:30-8:30pm. Don’t Spook the Horse performs at 7:30pm (no cover, please feed the kitty). https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Musician-Band/Dont-Spook-the-Horse-319590164883934/ Don’t Spook the Horse is an acoustic trio made up of Kevin Youngs of The Kissers […]

Harmony Bar Wins ChiliOcracy 6

January 27, 2020 by WORT 89.9FM

Congratulations to the Harmony Bar & Grill for winning this year’s ChiliOcracy and becoming the Supreme Commander of Chili. The Lobbyists swung the vote, and Harmony won by just ONE VOTE. Beef Butter BBQ has taken second place and the People’s Choice win, since they had the most total chips. Third place was a three-way tie […]

January 89.9 Social Club PopUp Party

January 8, 2020 by WORT 89.9FM

January’s Social Club Party will be at The Harmony Bar & Grill on Thursday January 23, 6:30-8:30pm. The Harmony is located at 2201 Atwood Ave, on Madison’s Eastside The Oak Street Ramblers perform at 7:30pm (no cover, please feed the kitty). Though their influences hail from much further south, the Oak Street Ramblers call home the […]

89.9 Social Club December Pop-Up Party

December 4, 2019 by WORT 89.9FM

Join WORT on Wednesday December 18, 6-8:30pm for the 89.9 Social Club “Pop-Up Party” at The Atwood, located at 2116 Atwood Ave, Madison. Soggy Prairie performs 6:30 to 8:30pm The Atwood, (formerly Mr Roberts) is yet another nice, new tavern and music venue on Madison’s Eastside. The Atwood, is owned by the same folks that […]

Q&A video with Bill Malone

September 11, 2019 by WORT Web Department

Q&A with Bill C. Malone, the sole historian who appears in the eight-part film “Country Music, a Film by Ken Burns,” Bill will talk about his experience working with filmmakers Burns, Dayton Duncan and Julie Dunphy, and the resulting story of the history of country music.

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