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!

Madison BookBeat

Madison BookBeat highlights local authors and book events. The show, hosted by Stu Levitan, airs every Monday afternoon from 1-2 pm.

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The Madison BookBeat conversation with Black, Queer, Poz poet/performer Danez Smith (“Homie”).

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The Madison BookBeat conversation with Vietnam veteran Doug Bradley and UW professor emeritus Craig Werner about their book We Gotta Get Out of this Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War” and Doug’s new book Who’ll Stop The Rain: Respect, Remembrance and Reconciliation in post-Vietnam America”

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The Madison BookBeat interview with Daphne E. Barbee-Wooten, editor of “Justice For All: Selected Writings of Lloyd A. Barbee,” (Wisconsin Historical Society Press 2019) the late civil rights leader, attorney and Wisconsin State Representative who fought a successful 12-year legal battle to desegregate the Milwaukee Public Schools.

The Legacy of Wisconsin Senator Bill Proxmire

January 13, 2020 by Madison BookBeat and Stu Levitan

Madison Book Beat host Stu Levitan sits down with Jonathan Kasparek, author of a new biography of the Wisconsin Senator Bill Proxmire, Proxmire: Bulldog of the Senate (Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2019). Jonathan Kasparek is assistant professor at University of Wisconsin- Waukesha. He’s the author of Fighting Son: A Biography of Phillip F. La Follette, […]

Talkin’ Jazz with Ben Sidran

January 6, 2020 by Madison BookBeat

For the inaugural episode of Madison BookBeat, host Stu Levitan sits down with the renowned Madison-based musician and author Ben Sidran. Sidran is a jazz pianist and recording artist with 35 solo albums, lyricist of a rock classic, record and video producer, and award-winning broadcaster. He’s also author of four books, Black Talk, A Life in the Music […]

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