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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!

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.

Steve Priest of SWEET shows support for listener sponsored radio WORT-...

September 25, 2018 by Rattlesnake Shake

Steve Priest, founding member of the iconic glam rock band SWEET (“Fox On The Run”, “Ballroom Blitz”, “Little Willy”, “Love Is Like Oxygen”), is interviewed by Sal Serio (aka D.J. el Serpentine of “The Rattlesnake Shake” radio program) backstage in Dubuque, Iowa, after Sweet’s excellent high energy concert on Friday, September 21, 2018. Also present […]

Gender Confetti!!! Open WORT’s Underground Stage on Sunday

September 14, 2018 by Shaun Soman

Those who attend the 41st Annual Willy Street Fair on Sunday, September 16th will have the opportunity to experience Madison’s (soon-to-be-not-so-)best-kept secret as the local “cute queer punk” duo Gender Confetti!!! opens WORT’s Underground Stage lineup at 12:00 PM. Composed of Elyse Clouthier (she/her and they/them pronouns) and Sylvia Johnson (they/them), Gender Confetti!!! are poised […]

Straka & Sphynx on the Underground Stage

September 13, 2018 by WORT Music Department

New Madison band Straka & Sphynx play the WORT Underground Stage at the Willy Street Fair starting at 1:10 pm. Raka Bandyo (guitar) is Straka which is the Slovakian word for magpie. Widely considered one of the most intelligent animals in the world, the straka is one of the only non-mammal species able to recognize […]

Behold Bird’s Eye at Willy Street Fair

September 11, 2018 by WORT Music Department

Madison-based Bird’s Eye is set to perform their funky, hip-hop stylings at 2:20 pm on the 2018 WORT Underground Stage at the Willy Street Fair this coming Sunday, September 16th. The seven-piece live instrumental band debuted in 2013, and has been filling venues and touring ever since. Revel in the groove-based foundation of Evan’s bass, […]

Black Cat LIVE on ‘Girls To The Front’

September 7, 2018 by WORT Music Department

Local punkers Black Cat brought their heavy sounds to ‘Girls To The Front‘ on Friday August 31. Black Cat are having a cassette release at Mickey’s Tavern on Saturday, September 22. Enjoy an encore performance of their live set!

Les Luster’s Rock Show

September 3, 2018 by Access Hour

Les Luster, the voice of many public service announcements on WORT-FM, presents his regular program of high-energy rock and roll with his latest discoveries in the world of global warming, earthquakes and earthquake possibilities, and “bad cop stories.” The program is called “Les Luster’s Rock Show!”

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