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, the fourth week of May 1962

May 20, 2020 by WORT News Department

Madison in the Sixties – the fourth week of May, 1962 The United Community Chest will likely soon stop paying the membership dues at the Madison Club for its executive director’s due to concerns about alleged discrimination in the exclusive private club’s membership practices. The club, where Madison’s business, legal and social elite entertain and […]

Madison, third week of May 1966

May 13, 2020 by WORT News Department

Madison, third week of May 1966. As the war in Viet Nam escalates, so too does the monthly draft. When it hits 40,000 in December, 1965, Selective Service director General Lewis B. Hershey warns that “marginal” students — about 10 percent of university freshmen and sophomores — could soon lose their 2-S student deferment and […]

Madison, May 1965

May 6, 2020 by WORT News Department

Madison in the Sixties. May, 1965 UW Chancellor Robben Fleming uses a May Day talk to defends the patriotic integrity of the university, declaring “there is not a shred of evidence that we have spawned subversives.” The phony charge is the result, he tells the law schools’ spring banquet, of the university’s “reputation for free […]

Madison, the first week of May, 1960

April 29, 2020 by WORT News Department

A big weekend for civil rights, as Operation Friendship brings 24 students from historically black colleges here to share their stories of the sit-in movement protesting southern lunch counter segregation – just as students here are picketing the chain stores on the Square in support of that movement. Dean of Students LeRoy Luberg had sharply […]

Madison, fourth week of April 1960

April 22, 2020 by WORT News Department

Madison in the Sixties – the last week of April, 1960 19-year-old Jon Micky Hayes is unstable but not insane, doctors say, and so is fit to stand trial for the March 12 first-degree murder of his father, Henry Vilas Zoo Director Harold Hayes. Hayes shot his father and another man to death with a […]