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.

Madison in the Sixties

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

Madison, First Week of July 1969

July 3, 2019 by WORT News Department

In a year already beset by campus strikes and off-campus riots, no wonder it rains on the Fourth of July. There’s even an early morning squall so strong it sends tree branches crashing down and flattening an 880 square foot tent at Warner Park. It’s put back up, and the weather clears by afternoon, as […]

Madison, the fourth week of June, 1969

June 26, 2019 by WORT News Department

It was in the fourth week of June, 1966 that the council said it would no longer issue new liquor licenses for private clubs with discriminatory membership policies, and declared that ‘at some time’ after 1969, it would stop renewing the existing licenses for the three local clubs which all have ‘white’s-only’ membership in their […]

Madison, Third Week of June 1969

June 19, 2019 by WORT News Department

Mayor Bill Dyke’s special commission investigating the Mifflin Block Party Riots of early May gets underway, and hears from a witness who directly challenges the mayor’s account of a key point. Dyke has maintained that he was at Blue Mounds State Park with his son all day on Saturday May 3, and didn’t hear of […]

Madison, the second week of June, 1969

June 12, 2019 by WORT News Department

It was in 1966 that the city council declared it would stop granting liquor licenses “at some future date” to private clubs that practice racial discrimination in their membership. That date isn’t here yet for the Elks and the Eagles, but it may have arrived for the Loyal Order of Moose – all of whom […]

First week of June, 1969

June 5, 2019 by WORT News Department

Madison, the first week of June, 1969 City building inspectors find 208 building and safety code violations in the student Mifflin-Bassett street area, seemingly validating student complaints about bad landlords. Mayor Bill Dyke ordered the comprehensive inspections in the wake of the Mifflin Street Block Party riot in early May after area youth cited poor […]

May, 1967 – The Bus Lane Protest

May 29, 2019 by WORT News Department

Madison – May, 1967. The Bus Lane Protest Many campuses have been having demonstrations against the war, the draft, and the CIA. But only Madison has a disruptive protest over a bus lane. In 1960 the city announced a ten-year plan to improve University Avenue from Bassett Street to Old Middleton Road, the first phase […]

Now Playing

Contact Information

How do I get my music played on WORT?

WORT Music Playlists

Madison, third week of August, 1969

Bail and the bigger picture in Dane County

Madison, Second Week of August, 1969

Masculinity and Violence in American Society

Insider Tip: DON’T DRINK BLEACH!!

A Close Look at CAFOs

Challenger for Dane County District Attorney Pulling No Punches

River Falls Faculty: No Confidence In UW Leaders

Wisconsin “Franchise Protection” Law Shields Corporations ...