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.

News Archives

WORT News Team Brings Home Awards for 2017 Reporting

June 1, 2018 by WORT News Department

May was a big month of award winning for the WORT news team! We picked up awards for several different reports over a wide range of topics. Both the Milwaukee Press Club awards and the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association awards are statewide competitions recognizing excellent reporting from the last year. We competed against radio news departments […]

Bioethics Expert Discusses Concerns With Right-to-Try Law

May 31, 2018 by WORT News Department and Nina Kravinsky

President Donald Trump signed a “Right to Try” bill yesterday, which lets terminally ill patients use not-yet FDA approved drugs. Those patients can now opt to use medicine that’s passed the first stage of testing at the federal agency. U.S, Sen. Ron Johnson is an author of the bill and says it’ll save lives. The […]

Foraging, Wild Edibles, and the Arboretum

May 31, 2018 by Perpetual Notion Machine

In this episode of the Perpetual Notion Machine, PNM’s hunter/gatherer Lincoln Tice explores the search for wild edibles, or in other words, foraging. With a little bit of education, anyone can find edible plants and fruits right from their own backyard or neighborhood. Lincoln’s guest is Kelly Schwartz, who just happens to also be a […]

Erik Kramer’s experimental twist on folk music

May 31, 2018 by Tone Madison

Erik Kramer’s first solo release, A House, Floating In The Middle Of A Lake, was one of our favorite Madison records of 2017. Kramer combines folk guitar instrumentals with electronics and field recordings, but with an approach that varies a lot from track to track. “Gayatri” builds on an entrancingly bleary bed of synths and […]

Madison Looks to Help Puerto Rican Town with Solar Energy

May 30, 2018 by WORT News Department

A new study shows that more than 4,000 Americans died in Puerto Rico as a result of Hurricane Maria last year. More than a third of those were due to a lack of health care due to power outages. The New England Journal of Medicine calls Hurricane Maria one of the deadliest natural disasters in […]

UW-Madison’s very own observatory and the history behind it

May 29, 2018 by WORT News Department

In this episode, Brianna Smart and Zach Pace keep their discussion terrestrial and tell us about UW-Madison’s history in studying astronomy. The Washburn observatory was created in 1877. Just a year prior to the creation of the observatory the Wisconsin state legislators passed a resolution saying that they would provide salary for a new professor […]

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