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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.

Black Beauty

August 9, 2017 by A Public Affair

Why does society look to European standards of beauty, emphasizing skin colors and hair types that exclude many black women? What are the impacts of the white standard on women, girls, and even men of color? Lilada Gee dives into Black Beauty today with three women from the local beauty scene that are creating Black […]

Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor’s Story

August 7, 2017 by A Public Affair

This week marks the 72nd anniversary of the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. What happened after the bombing of Nagasaki? Today Minneapolis-based writer and teacher Caren Stelson joins Patty Peltekos to discuss her book, “Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor’s Story.” In August 1945, the atomic bombs released on the cities of Hiroshima and […]

Foxconn bill limits environmental regulations

August 4, 2017 by A Public Affair

President Trump announced last week that Taiwan-based Foxconn is going to look at Wisconsin to create a 1,000-acre campus. Since then, legislators have laid out the benefits the state will gain from this, as well as the potential detriments. One area of concern as of late is the push back of environmental regulations presented in the […]

Thousands Protest Right-Wing Populism in Poland

August 3, 2017 by A Public Affair

In July, the political party of Law and Justice attempted to dismantle checks and balances in the Polish political system by appointing its own people to the judiciary. In defiance of that, hundreds of thousands of Polish citizens took to the streets to protest, resulting in a brief halt of the forward movement of the […]

Vanessa McDowell Making History

August 2, 2017 by A Public Affair

Lilada Gee is joined by Vanessa McDowell, who made notable history here in Madison by becoming the first Black CEO of the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) Madison in its 109-year history. The YWCA was founded in 1855 in London by Emma Robarts and Mrs. Arthur Kinnaird in a period where slavery still existed. McDowell […]

“Democracy in Chains” examines roots of the radical right

July 27, 2017 by A Public Affair

Nancy MacLean joins the program to discuss “Democracy in Chains,” the significant new book on the rise and influence of the anti-democratic libertarian right and how it has succeeded in shaping current debates, polices and politics. MacLean is a professor of history at Duke University. Her research is primarily focused on race, gender, labor history, […]

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