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 June, 1966

June 23, 2021 by WORT News Department

Madison in the Sixties – the last week of June, 1966 On the 24th, the Common Council starts the process to end racial discrimination in private clubs by adopting a report from the Equal Opportunities Commission proposing six steps the city should take to ban such bias. Among them – that no new liquor licenses […]

Madison, the third week of June in the 1960s

June 16, 2021 by WORT News Department

Madison in the Sixties. The third week of June 1961— With civil rights activists from the UW among the Freedom Riders risking life and liberty to integrate interstate bus travel, about 150 supporters of the Student Council on Civil Rights rally on the library mall then march to the Capitol. They want Governor Gaylord Nelson […]

Madison, the second week of June, 1969

June 9, 2021 by WORT News Department

Madison, the second week of June, 1969 The three private clubs in Madison that practice racial discrimination in their membership – the Elks, Eagles and Loyal Order of the Moose – have known since 1966 that they could lose their city liquor licenses if they didn’t change the “whites-only” clause in their charters. That’s when […]

Madison in the Sixties – the first week of June, 1961

June 2, 2021 by WORT News Department

Madison in the Sixties – the first week of June, 1961 Two months after businessman Henry Reynolds was elected mayor on a platform of killing the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Monona Terrace civic center, the Auditorium Committee dominated by his appointees votes to do just that. With pro-Monona Terrace members appointed by former mayor Ivan Nestingen […]

Bob Dylan’s “Chimes of Freedom” – An exegesis ...

June 1, 2021 by WORT News Department

Bob Dylan’s Chimes of Freedom An Exegesis by Stu Levitan In late January and early February, 1964, when the number one song in America was “I Want To Hold Your Hand,” here’s what Bob Dylan was writing: Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder […]

Madison in the Sixties – Bob Dylan

May 26, 2021 by WORT News Department

Madison in the Sixties – Bob Dylan Bob Dylan, age nineteen, his direction still unknown, blows into town in early January, 1961 and falls in with the leftist/folkie/theater crowd. He’s got the number for Socialist Club president and banjoist grad student Ron Radosh, but his apartment at 444 Hawthorne Ct. is too small for Dylan […]

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