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, December 1960

December 2, 2020 by WORT News Department

Madison in the Sixties – December, 1960 As the month opens, the Madison Redevelopment Authority closes any hope for public housing in the city’s first urban renewal area, the Brittingham project just east of Brittingham Park. The Madison Housing Authority had been trying all year to get the MRA to OK public housing for the […]

Madison – Racial Tensions, Late November, 1968

November 25, 2020 by WORT News Department

Madison in the Sixties – 1968. Racial tensions, late November. On Saturday the 16th, university police arrest a Black nonstudent, Terrence Calneck, in the Rathskeller after he gets into a shouting match and threatens an elderly female worker whom he says used a racial epithet when he complained about the portion of ice cream she […]

Madison, the 3rd week of November, 1965

November 18, 2020 by WORT News Department

Madison in the Sixties – the third week of November, 1965 There’s a serious pocket of poverty in South Madison, according to a report prepared for the Madison Redevelopment Authority. Of the 202 households in the area east of S. Park Street and south of Wingra Creek, 27% have annual incomes under $3,000, the federal […]

Madison, November 1969

November 11, 2020 by WORT News Department

On the UW campus The first week is the worst week for students who take drugs or disrupt classes, as the Republican-controlled State Assembly advances two crack-down bills introduced in the wake of the Black Studies Strike earlier this year. On the fourth, the Assembly approves and sends to Republican Gov. Warren Knowles a bill […]

Madison, November 1965

November 4, 2020 by WORT News Department

Madison in the Sixties –November, 1965 John Lewis, the 25-year-old national chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, SNCC, returns to Madison for two speaking engagements on the second, starting with a noon rally on the Memorial Union steps. That night, 400 students give him a standing ovation after his address in Great Hall, then […]