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.

I like It Like That

Rock’n’roll mostly from the 50s and 60s with host Rockin’ John McDonald. Hits, b-sides, alternate takes, unreleased cuts, tracks out of print, rockabilly, surf music; also music from the 80s, 90s, and 2000s that “fits the format.”

Willy Street Fair Warm-up Rock Show

September 8, 2019 by WORT 89.9FM

Can’t wait for Willy Street Fair weekend? Musicians for WORT presents the Willy Street Warmup Rock Show on Thursday, September 12th at 7pm. The BOS Meadery will host this Musicians for WORT Benefit, located at 849 E. Washington Avenue. Purr and meowwww along with Cats on Leashes and slither the dance floor to Lonesome Cobras. […]

Badfinger Music Special!

June 14, 2019 by Sybil Augustine

Every week at 8 pm we’ve got Friday On Our Minds – tonight it’s a unique program spotlighting Badfinger and featuring an interview with Joe Tansin, record producer and band associate. Your hosts are “the Anglophile” Joanie Baker and “Sugar Shack” Gary with “Blues Cruiser” Dave Watts at the controls. Tune in to the party from […]

Madison Area Music Awards Finalist Party!

March 24, 2019 by Sybil Augustine

On March 31 the top finalists for 2019 MAMA Awards will be revealed. Be the first to know at the Announcement Party at the Brink Lounge, 701 E. Washington Ave from 5-9 pm. General admission and VIP tickets are available online and at the door. You’ll get to hear live performances by Katie Scullin, Angela Puerta, […]

This Weekend’s Fresh Music Specials!

March 22, 2019 by Sybil Augustine

Tonight on Dave Watts‘ Blues Cruise, “Professor” Bill Clark will be playing a set of recordings by “The Boss of the Blues”, Big Joe Turner. This was selected to placate guest dj, “the G-Man”, Mr. George P. Dreckmann and will air Friday March 22 on radio station WORT-FM, 89.9 on your Madison radio dial from […]

Rockin’ John Hosts His 2000th Show on WORT!!

March 31, 2018 by WORT Music Department

John McDonald, known as “Rockin’ John” on the air with his weekly 1950s-’60s rock show “I Like It Like That,” has hit another milestone — he’s hosting for the 2000th time this Saturday, March 31, from 6 to 8 PM. If anyone embodies the spirit of community radio, it’s Rockin’ John. For over 43 years, […]

99ers “Bang It Out” at Iconic Willy St Music Festival

September 14, 2017 by Brian D. Johnson and WORT Music Department

The 99ers plug it in and turn it up at 4:40 pm this Sunday on WORT’s Underground Stage. The 99ers are here to show off their philosophy: “BANG IT OUT, KEEP IT SHORT & NO MESSING ABOUT!!” For insight into their debut appearance in Madison, tune in to I Like It Like That on WORT with […]

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