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.

Mel & Floyd

Two wacky guys broadcast a hilarious blend of political commentary, weird news, and stand-up comedy. Mel & Floyd were voted Madison's favorite radio personalities in the Isthmus reader's poll in 2009.

Fanny Packs for Birth Control

May 6, 2018 by Mel & Floyd

This week on Mel & Floyd: a Madison “Fish-nado” [get a stronger umbrella]; fanny packs full of birth control or fanny packs AS birth control?; bug bites are up; the show DEFINITELY IS available on itunes; weather forecast: unseasonably warm with a chance of fish; and Mark has sleeves!

Reading to Kittens

April 29, 2018 by Mel & Floyd

This week on Mel & Floyd: Mel unleashes an uncontrolled controlled burn, Mr Smarty Pants plugs Dark Money & Comey’s memoirs, Cosby goes through his sleeping lawyers’ briefs, China scores its citizens’ trustworthiness, Ben Carson wants to triple your rent, Mick Mulvaney sells access, and the Simpsons pass Gunsmoke but trump is “too busy” to […]

The Teleological Suspension of the Ethical

April 21, 2018 by Mel & Floyd

This week on Mel & Floyd: the concept of the “Holy Lie”; Russia has the most beautiful hookers; “that Pruitt’s a piece of work”; robots assembling IKEA; baboons working together; shrinking mammals; and Mark sports a fire-engine-red sleeveless T!

Return to “Normal”

April 16, 2018 by Mel & Floyd

This week on Mel & Floyd: Pants is back, Mark models a sleeveless T, tin foil hats are back in fashion and more of trump’s dirty laundry. Also, the Rapture is coming on April 23 but published near-death experiences are Malarky. Mini-baseball bats for school security! Japanese Snow Monkeys relieving stress in hot springs! And […]

Wisconsin Film Festival Special

April 10, 2018 by Mel & Floyd

This week on Mel & Floyd: Floyd takes a break from his “assignment” to talk movies with Mel, Ben from the Wisconsin Film Festival and Lewis from Four Star Video Heaven. Also, interviews with filmmakers from Ironwood, Future Language: The Dimensions of Von LMO, Riverwest Film and Video, and Joe Frank – Somewhere Out There. Watch […]

God Bless the Pagans

March 31, 2018 by Mel & Floyd

This week on Mel & Floyd: Flo attempts to fill Smarty Pants’ Shoes while Mel is in the fog of a Kafkaesque nightmare; “Let He who is without an AK-47 cast the first stone”; Disney Sunshine to the White House; Super-Gonorrhea; Mel & Flo are shocked, SHOCKED, that Facebook is collecting our data; and a […]

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