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!

News Archives

Brooklyn village board upended by spring election

April 7, 2021 by Jonah Chester and WORT News Department

Yesterday, Brooklyn’s village President, Brit Springer, was voted out of office — despite not facing a formal challenger. Springer was issued a resounding defeat by write-in candidate Mark Bruner, who garnered 75% of the vote, or roughly 244 ballots. But she wasn’t alone in her defeat; in addition to Springer, three other Brooklyn trustee races […]

Madison Ends Plastic Bag Recycling

April 6, 2021 by Martin Rakacolli

Photo courtesy Christopher Vega on Unsplash. On Tuesday, the Madison Streets Division announced that the city would cease recycling plastic film and plastic bags – and that residents should no longer place plastic bags into their recycling. But according to city recycling spokesman Bryan Johnson, recycling plastic bags has always been somewhat problematic. “We were […]

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April 5, 2021 by Jonah Chester and WORT News Department

Wisconsin voters will see only one statewide election on their ballots tomorrow — the race for the state’s new superintendent. Candidates Jill Underly and Deborah Kerr will square off to lead the state’s Department of Public Instruction. That race comes as the state’s schools have weathered a turbulent year, after the pandemic forced districts to […]

Desire Lines: Circle of Trees

April 5, 2021 by Desire Lines

Eighty-five-year-old Barbara Lozowski reads poems she’s written about knitted afghans, growing old, and a circle of trees in the Upper Peninsula. Recorded in Kentucky in 2018. My grandma, Barbara Lozowski–we call her “Ama”–just turned 88. For years she’s written poems in spiral notebooks. In 2018, I spent a few weeks with my grandparents in Kentucky. […]

Lobbying group sues DNR over PFAS testing

April 1, 2021 by Jonah Chester and WORT News Department

Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce is suing the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, aiming to curtail testing of PFAS in industrial wastewater. PFAS are a family of forever chemicals linked to a number of adverse health effects. The man-made chemicals are endemic to waterways throughout the state, and have been detected in all of Madison’s lakes. […]

Transparency Talk: Transparency in public schools

April 1, 2021 by WORT News Department

Every other week, we speak to Tom Kamenick, President of the Wisconsin Transparency Project about open records and open government. This week, producer Jonah Chester speaks with Kamenick about how Wisconsin’s public schools are attemtping to skirt public records laws. A quick note, as always, before we begin — this conversation is not intended to […]

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