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.

Tone Madison

Madison-focused arts and music conversations you won't hear anywhere else, from tonemadison.com .

A Room of One’s Own faces the future

June 16, 2016 by Tone Madison

Tone Madison‘s Scott Gordon asks Sandi Torkildson of A Room of One’s Own about her decision to put the long-running downtown Madison bookstore up for sale, and about how culture and business have changed in Madison since the store was founded in 1975. The music in this segment is by Tippy. Subscribe to the Tone Madison/WORT-FM […]

Catching up with Dos Malés

June 10, 2016 by Tone Madison

Tone Madison‘s Scott Gordon talks with Nick Zumm of Madison metal duo Dos Malés about the band’s self-titled EP and about Double Fist Fest, a night of two-piece heavy bands he’s organizing on June 18 at The Frequency. Subscribe to the Tone Madison/WORT-FM podcast on iTunes.

Alan Talaga on millennials and other not-real things

June 2, 2016 by Tone Madison

Tone Madison‘s Scott Gordon sits down with Madison writer and comedian Alan Talaga, whose next show is the tech-sector satire Madlennial Tech And Culture Forum, taking place Friday, June 17 at Broom Street Theater. The music in this episode is by Cap Alan, who play Friday, June 3 at 117 S. Pinckney St. Subscribe to the Tone […]

Tone Madison’s brief summer 2016 music preview

May 27, 2016 by Tone Madison

Tone Madison‘s Scott Gordon previews some of the best live music happening in Madison over the summer. Here’s a cheat sheet on the shows mentioned in this piece: June 3: Me eN You at the Terrace June 23: Screaming Females at The Frequency June 23: Paul de Jong at Crescendo July 3: Samantha Glass at Arts + […]

Mr. Jackson readies “Black Gandalf”

May 19, 2016 by Tone Madison

Tone Madison‘s Scott Gordon sits down with Madison-based R&B artist Mr. Jackson, who will celebrate the release of his second album, Black Gandalf, with a May 28 show at Ritual Barbers. Subscribe to the Tone Madison/WORT-FM podcast on iTunes.

Meet the Sound Out Loud ensemble

May 13, 2016 by Tone Madison

Tone Madison‘s Scott Gordon sits down with three members of the recently formed new-music ensemble Sound Out Loud. Kyle Johnson, Satoko Hayami, and Garrett Mendelow also treated us to a brief in-studio performance of Tristan Perich’s “qsqsqsqsqqqqq,” a piece for three toy pianos and electronics. Sound Out Loud’s next performance is Friday, May 13 at the […]

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