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, 1965 – the School System

September 2, 2020 by WORT News Department

Madison in the Sixties – the public schools, 1965 The new school year opens with almost 32,000 youngsters in the public schools, ranging from 203 at Cherokee elementary to almost twenty-two hundred at West Senior High. But the numbers are not good at Madison’s first high school. On September 8, the fifty- seventh anniversary of […]

Madison in the Sixties – The Death of Dr. King

August 26, 2020 by WORT News Department

Madison in the Sixties. Civil Rights, 1968 – The Death of Dr. King Friday, April 5 As they did in November, 1963, thousands gather to grieve atop Bascom Hill. But this time the mourning is different. The morning after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. starts with a heated disagreement between Chancellor William […]

Madison in the Sixties – The Incident at Breese Stevens Field, p...

August 19, 2020 by WORT News Department

It was in early August that The Incident at Breese Stevens Field – a night of fights at a teen dance ending in the arrest of blacks but no whites — worsened the city’s racial tension so much that Rev James C Wright, executive director of the Equal Opportunities Commission, held an extraordinary ad hoc […]

Madison in the Sixties – The Incident at Breese Stevens Field

August 12, 2020 by WORT News Department

August 3, 1968 — The Incident at Breese Stevens Field About four hundred are there for a teen dance; fifty to seventy- five blacks from downtown and the south side, the rest whites from the east and far east. Most everyone came to dance and hang out; some came to make trouble. Some have been drinking. […]

Madison, 1968 – Civil Rights, pt 2

August 5, 2020 by WORT News Department

Madison in the Sixties. Civil Rights, 1968 – part 2 It was in 1959 that the fighter then known as Cassius Clay lost the Pan American Games championship at the UW Field House. In 1967, now known as Muhammad Ali he refused induction in the armed forces, was stripped of his title, sentenced to five […]

Madison, 1968 – Civil Rights on campus, part 1

July 28, 2020 by WORT News Department

Madison in the Sixties. Civil Rights on Campus, 1968 – part 1. “Wisconsin is a terribly bigoted place,” UW junior Gene Parks says in late April, “and If progress toward racial equality is going to be made, it will have to come within the white communities.” Director of the University YMCA’s Project TEACH, one of […]

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