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!

Madison in the Sixties

Topical tales of Madison's influential people and critical events from long ago.

Madison and the Assassination of President Kennedy

November 24, 2021 by WORT News Department

Madison in the Sixties, the third week of November, 1963. Wednesday, Nov. 20 President John F. Kennedy begins his last full day in the White House with a Western Union telegram to UW President Fred Harvey Harrington, congratulating Dr. Harry Waisman and his colleagues at the UW Orthopedic Children’s Hospital on that afternoon’s dedication of […]

Madison, October 1966

October 13, 2021 by WORT News Department

Madison in the Sixties – October, 1966 Two events of note on the 13th. The city council rejects a request from the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom to set up a card table at 613 University Ave. to solicit signatures on a petition protesting the use of napalm in Vietnam. “The Council doesn’t […]

Madison, October 1961

October 6, 2021 by WORT News Department

Madison in the Sixties – October, 1961 About 5,000 homes in the greater Madison area already have some sort of fallout shelter for protection after a nuclear war, a civil defense official tells a neighborhood group On the third. Don Heimlich, the assistant civil defense director, tells a gathering in the Hill Farms area that […]

Madison, September 1968

September 29, 2021 by WORT News Department

Madison in the Sixties – life on campus, September 1968. The University of Wisconsin opens a new academic year under its third Chancellor in four years – H. Edwin Young, recommended by President Fred Harvey Harrington and unanimously confirmed by the regents to succeed William Sewell, who quit before he was fired after one troubled […]