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!

Radio Astronomy

Radio Astronomy is a down-to-Earth dialogue between UW Madison astronomers exploring the latest in space and astronomy news.

Stephen Hawking’s last paper

May 8, 2018 by WORT News Department

Radio Astronomy’s Diego Casanova explains what Stephen Hawking’s last paper said and why it’s so important. Stephen Hawking passed away this spring. Before passing away, Hawking was in the process of writing a paper on the inflation period and what it did and didn’t do to the universe. The inflation period is said to create […]

Gaia, ESA’s New Star Catalog

May 1, 2018 by WORT News Department

Radio Astronomy host Aaron Lopez tells us about how scientists might use Gaia Data Release 2. The Gaia Data Release 2 is a star catalog that came from the European Space Agency. The Gaia Data Release 2 had the potential to give us an exponential amount of data on stars. It took 22 month to collect […]

Hubble Telescope uses “Facial Recognition” For Photos

April 24, 2018 by WORT News Department

Radio Astronomy co-hosts Diego Casanova and Brianna Smart explain the technology that astronomers use to sort though the 120 gigabytes of Hubble images a week. With Hubble having so many images they had to find an easy way to sort them.They used modern day “Facial Recognition” software, but for planets! The software is in charge […]

NASA’s New Spacecraft: TESS

April 17, 2018 by WORT News Department

Radio Astronomy co-hosts Aaron Lopez and Brianna Smart discuss TESS or Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, which is NASA’s new spacecraft. They are using it as a follow up to the Kepler mission. The stars TESS will study are 30 to 100 times brighter than those of Kepler. NASA plans to have TESS survey the entire sky […]

Super Massive Black Holes

April 10, 2018 by WORT News Department

In today’s Radio Astronomy, host Diego Casanova will be explaining super massive black holes and how they have captured the imagination of writers, thinkers and astronomers. Black holes of stellar mass or super massive black holes are caused when massive stars collapse at the end of their life cycle. After a black hole has been around for […]

Dark Matter has gone missing on galaxy NGC 1052-DF2

April 3, 2018 by WORT News Department

Radio Astronomy hosts Erika Carlson and Brianna Smart explain dark matter and the discovery of a galaxy with little or no dark matter. Dark matter has mass and can experience gravity but does not reflect light. Dark matter is extremely common in our universe, however it is invisible and cannot be seen with the naked […]

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