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

President Trump Talks Soleimani, Economy, Dishwashers In Milwaukee

January 15, 2020 by Chali Pittman

While Democratic presidential candidates sparred in the last debate before the Iowa caucuses, President Trump held his campaign stop in Milwaukee Tuesday night. Speaking to a packed crowd of more than 12,000 supporters at the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena, Trump delivered a ninety minute speech that touched on his promises for national security, the economy, immigration, […]

Golf: At What Cost?

January 15, 2020 by Jade Iseri-Ramos

Today, the Task Force on Municipal Golf in Madison Parks will be presented with an estimate of what Madison’s four public golf courses cost the City. The report is being presented by the golf courses’ financial group. It includes the cost of maintenance, repair, or replacement of clubhouses, irrigation systems, and various types of lawn […]

Madison, the third week of January in the Sixties

January 15, 2020 by WORT News Department

Madison in the sixties – the third week of January January 18 1962 — The most important cultural and social institution in the Greenbush neighborhood celebrates its fiftieth anniversary of its founding — the Club Lavoratori Italiani Sicilia di Mutuo Sucorso e Beneficenza, more widely known as Italian Workmen’s Club. The club opened its fine brick building […]

Republicans Attempt Veto Override

January 14, 2020 by Martin Rakacolli

Last year, Republicans sent a bill to Governor Tony Evers’s desk that would have lowered the number of required training hours for nursing aides, but Evers vetoed it. This Wednesday, Republicans will convene to try overriding the veto and pass the bill. If they succeed, it will be the first veto override in Wisconsin since […]

Committee Hears About PFAS Regulations Process

January 13, 2020 by WORT News Department and Shaun Soman

Tonight, a City of Madison water quality committee heard about the State’s process for developing groundwater standards for PFAS, a toxic forever chemical, and other unregulated contaminants. During the meeting, the state health agency and the state department of natural resources will suggest standards to combat toxic chemicals in groundwater. , Adam DeWisse is the […]

What’s the Word: Blues

January 13, 2020 by WORT News Department

This week on “What’s the Word,” we thought we’d continue following up on the Majestic’s “Wisconsin Music Fest” taking place over these last few weeks. Today, Adam Schuster turns our attention to the blues, taking us through its origins in American music recording and challenging some of the preconceived notions we have about one of […]

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