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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!

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June 20, 2021 by 8 O'Clock Buzz

WORT 89.9FM Madison · The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Patrick Marley on Arizona’s Audit of the 2020 Presidential Election In Arizona the 2020 Presidential Election is still not over. Patrick Marley from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel traveled to Arizona with four Wisconsin Republicans to check out the audit. Patrick joins Friday Buzz host Dylan Brogan to […]

The History Of The KKK In American Politics

August 15, 2019 by A Public Affair

Today’s episode is a rebroadcast from July 5, 2018. With the national conversation about white supremacy on the rise, Allen talks to historian Linda Gordon about her latest book, The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition. They discuss the rise of the KKK in […]

Madisonians Weigh In On Presidential Candidates

June 20, 2019 by WORT News Department

We, Peyton Barber and Mario Canacasco, the news interns for WORT FM, set out on a mission to find out who people were planning to vote for in the 2020 election, and the issues that would bring them to the polls. We took it to the streets of Madison to ask about four dozen people […]

Split Show: 2020 Presidential Race and US–Venezuela Updates

May 24, 2019 by A Public Affair

On today’s two-part show, we bring you updates on American electoral politics and the U.S.’s intervention in Venezuela. First, Esty discusses the overcrowded 2020 presidential race with William Pitt, senior editor at Truthout. In the second segment, anthropology professor Adrienne Pine describes her experience as an embassy protector at the Venezuelan embassy in Washington, D.C., […]

How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics with Laura Briggs

April 9, 2019 by A Public Affair

“All politics is reproductive.” That’s the major claim of Laura Briggs, our guest today. She joins Carousel in the studio for a far-reaching discussion of reproductive justice and contemporary American politics. They talk Reaganomics and the destruction of the social safety net, the stereotype of the “welfare queen,” identity politics, the disappearing 40-hour workweek, reproductive […]

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