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.

WORT Local News

WORT Local News presents alternative viewpoints in its news – both in the sources it uses and the stories it covers. Newscasts include local and state news, weather, and regular features. It aims to give underrepresented people a voice.

Recruiting Show: Need More Volunteers!

May 18, 2015 by Perpetual Notion Machine

Tonight’s show deviated from the norm. Instead of talking about science, we talked about us, the Perpetual Notion Machine, putting science on the radio. The guests tonight were the current volunteers on PNM – Dennis Shaffer, Bill Scanlon, Jim Carrier, Matthew Zmudka, and Kaitlin Stack Whitney. Our goal is to try to generate interest in […]

Tone Madison: One Year of the Yahara Music Library

May 10, 2015 by WORT Local News

Librarians Kelly Hiser and Guy Hankel discuss the challenges and lessons of the online local-music project. Tone Madison’s Scott Gordon has the interview.

Garver Feed Mill to Be Part of Food Ecosystem

May 8, 2015 by Isthmus on WORT, Dylan Brogan and WORT News Department

MADISON (WORT) — Isthmus Staff Writer Allison Geyer has the details on the exciting future of the long-abandoned Garver Feed Mill property on Madison’s east side.

Pollination

May 7, 2015 by Perpetual Notion Machine

Tonight’s show is about pollination and the wild and managed pollinators that provide this important ecosystem service. Our producer and host is Kaitlin Stack Whitney and our show was engineered by Dennis Shaffer.

Our guests are Dr. Christina Locke, a postdoctoral researcher, and Kiley Friedrich, a graduate student – both in the entomology department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

New Revenue Numbers Won't Reduce Walker Budget Cuts

May 7, 2015 by WORT Local News

MADISON (WORT) — The new revenue projections from the Legislative Fiscal Bureau won’t be the fiscal lifeline Republicans were banking on.

GOP Lawmakers Tell DNR to Ignore Dane County

May 7, 2015 by WORT Local News

MADISON (WORT) — The Wisconsin legislature’s Joint Finance Committee voted this week to strip Dane County of its ability to advise the Department of Natural Resources on water quality management within the county. Bekah Wilce has the story.

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