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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!

In Conversation with Poet Andrea Gibson

June 16, 2021 by A Public Affair

For her final show before taking parental leave, Wednesday host Ali Muldrow talks to one of her all-time favorite poets, Andrea Gibson. They talk about identity, gender, and what it means to create art. During the hour, Andrea does two live readings of their poems “Your Life” and “America Reloading.” Andrea Gibson is a poet […]

Clint Smith on Reckoning with Slavery in America

June 9, 2021 by A Public Affair

Slavery is not as deep in the past as some may think. That’s the premise of Clint Smith’s new book, How the Word is Passed. Today, he joins Wednesday host Ali Muldrow on the show to discuss the history of slavery and its echoes in present-day America. Clint Smith is a staff writer at The […]

Moya Bailey on Misogynoir

June 2, 2021 by A Public Affair

Moya Bailey first coined the term misogynoir in her dissertation as a way of thinking about the intersection of sexism and racism, and especially how anti-Black misogyny functions in visual culture and digital spaces. She never expected the term to go viral, but now misogynoir has its own Wikipedia page and is making its way […]

Carolyn Stanford Taylor Reflects on Years of Service in Education

May 26, 2021 by A Public Affair

“Education is the great equalizer,” says outgoing Wisconsin State Superintendent Carolyn Stanford Taylor. “Education is a civil right.” Today, Carolyn Stanford Taylor joins Wednesday host Ali Muldrow on the show to reflect on her forty-one-year career in education and specifically her time spent as the Wisconsin State Superintendent of Public Instruction from 2019 to 2021. […]

Pregnancy and Parenting During a Pandemic

May 19, 2021 by A Public Affair

Social work professor Tova Walsh interviewed dozens of mothers who gave birth early in the pandemic. She herself had a baby in March 2020, just as Wisconsin’s stay-at-home orders went into effect. What she learned is that it’s been an unusual time for new parents, to say the least. Today on the show, Dr. Walsh […]

Supporting Black Men’s Health and Wellness

May 12, 2021 by A Public Affair

When Aaron Perry was struggling to control his diabetes, he had an idea: participate in an Ironman Triathlon. He was told it couldn’t be done by someone in his health condition. One year later, he became the world’s first African American diabetic to finish the race. After that, Perry went on to create the Men’s […]

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