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WORT’s Orton Park Fest Warmup Party

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Join WORT at the Crystal Corner Bar on Thursday, August 23rd at 8:30pm for an Orton Park Fest Warmup Party with Negative Example, The Apologists and BingBong! Donation at the door to support WORT 89.9 FM Community Radio. UPDATE! The illustrious volunteer DJs Katie & Tessa of Another Green World have joined the bill! More […]

Musicians For WORT Sat. July 14 at Harmony Bar!

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Join us for a Musicians For WORT benefit at the Harmony Bar on Saturday July 14 featuring The Civil Engineers and Swamp Thing! Swamp Thing was a mid-80s Madison band known for playing danceable songs about animals, food, banana republics, and beautiful communists. Fronted by WORT’s own Jonathan Zarov (host of the Friday 8 O’Clock […]

Latest Charts for Rock, World, Jazz & more!

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Neko Case (pictured) is riding high on charts across the country & straight into Madison Fri July 6 at Breese Stevens Field with Ray LaMontagne. Other chart debuts this include locals Proud Parents on the recently-relocated to Madison Dirtnap Records label, Angelique Kidjo‘s Benin-flavored tribute to the Talking Heads album Remain in Light, and if you haven’t […]

Grrrls to the Front!

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A cursory glance at documentary filmmaker Sam Dunn‘s “Heavy Metal Family Tree” reveals a familiar, tiring, and altogether incorrect assumption: only cis-gendered men create anything of merit. From the exclusion of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, a black woman who practically invented rock ‘n’ roll, to the complete omission of the riot grrrl movement, Dunn’s “family tree” overlooks the […]

The Posies Live from the WORT Studios

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Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow, the founders of veteran indie rock band  The Posies, stopped by the WORT studios on Sunday, June 23 to play an acoustic set ahead of their show that night at the High Noon Saloon.  The band is celebrating their 30th anniversary with a worldwide tour featuring many of their ’90s “alternative” […]