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.

Citing Public Safety, Soglin Orders Public Art Removal

August 10, 2015 by Dylan Brogan and WORT News Department

MADISON (WORT) — Madison Mayor Paul Soglin is authorizing the publicly commissioned Philosopher’s Grove art installation to be removed. Soglin says the concentration of homeless people and others are to blame for frequent lawbreaking. Dylan Brogan reports.

Rebroadcast of show from July 15, 1999

August 7, 2015 by Perpetual Notion Machine

Tonight, we broadcast an old show that originally aired on July 15, 1999. In that show, one time PNM’er Susan Nossal reports from a conference held at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. She talked with two scientists about their research concerning the middle and upper atmosphere. Also, Tricia Casper, another past […]

Homeless Advocates Respond to Soglin's Bench Ordinance

August 4, 2015 by WORT Local News

MADISON (WORT) — Mayor Paul Soglin is proposing to the Madison Common Council some new ordinances that would limit the time that anyone could stand, sit, or lay down in the central business district. Several advocates for the homeless spoke to WORT’s Craig McComb in studio.

Dating Stars & Planets

August 4, 2015 by Radio Astronomy

MADISON (WORT) — Astronomers know that Earth is around 4.6 billion years old, but how exactly do they determine the age of other planets, not to mention stars?

UW Urban Canid Project

July 31, 2015 by Perpetual Notion Machine

Tonight we talked with two wildlife ecologists, David Drake from the Department of Forestry and Wildlife Ecology and Marcus Mueller, his graduate assistant. They discussed with PNM’s Dennis Shaffer about the UW Urban Canid Project, which solicits input from the public through social media where red foxes and coyotes might be found in the city limits of Madison.

Autographite on Their Last Show

July 31, 2015 by Tone Madison

After writer and musician Daiquiri Rene Jones moved to Madison a few years ago, the trio Autographite coalesced around his heady, meandering spoken-word material. Tone Madison’s Scott Gordon has the interview.

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