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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.

Holiday Show: 2019 Arts & Culture Roundup

December 24, 2019 by A Public Affair

For today’s holiday edition, co-hosts Richelle Wilson and Nate Carlin look back on some of the notable moments in arts and culture in 2019—the books, movies, and TV that generated important conversations about what we value in society. With the input of listeners, they take up the effect of mega box-office hits on cinema and […]

“Of Water, Air, and Poetry” Perspectives en Plein Air by Diane Was...

October 15, 2019 by WORT 89.9FM

Award-winning plein air painter, Diane Washa, captures the varying atmospheres of midwestern landscapes. Often painterly and dreamlike, Washa’s paintings not only depict the formal structure and color of these scenes but manifest the indescribable aura and presence of the spaces. Borrowing her exhibition title from twentieth-century, Wisconsin objectivist poet, Lorine Niedecker, Washa too creates works […]

Exhibition Opening: Derrick Adams and Mickalene Thomas

September 13, 2019 by WORT 89.9FM

Join us during MMoCA’s Fall Gallery Night as we celebrate two extraordinary new works created at Tandem Press by renowned artists Derrick Adams and Mickalene Thomas! This reception also coincides with the first concert in our annual Friday jazz series with music by UW-Madison students from 5-7pm. Refreshments and free parking available. Free and open […]

Intersections: Indigenous Textiles of the Americas

July 24, 2019 by thom jones

Indigenous scholars Kendra Greendeer (Ho-Chunk) and Dakota Mace (Diné) co-curate an exhibition exploring material interrelationships among cultures with long histories of exchange throughout the Americas. Select textiles and objects from the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection and the Little Eagle Arts Foundation, a Ho-Chunk arts organization, provide a deeper understanding of the intersecting lifeways, movement, […]

Camp: Mindful Making: artist journals + mixed media

July 8, 2019 by WORT 89.9FM

Camp – Mindful Making: Artist Journals + Mixed Media August 5- August 9, 1:00-4:00pm each day at Arts + Literature Laboratory (2021 Winnebago St) Fee: $175 Ages: 10-14 years Register in advance: https://artlitlab.org/education/summer-19-youth-camps/camps-for-10-14-year-olds-1-4pm Visit artlitlab.org or contact borealis@artlitlab.org for more information Camp description: Join artist Kenzie Engel for a week of intuitive artmaking! Each day, […]

Reedikulus Arts Crawl

May 15, 2019 by WORT 89.9FM

This FREE family-friendly walking tour features artists exhibiting, demonstrating & performing on sidewalks, in store-fronts and in alley ways with entertainment, activities & surprises along the way! Schedule: Arts Crawl 5-9 PM Street Party 4-10 PM Wine & craft beer service 4-10 PM Food vendors 5-8 PM Live music 5-10 PM Location: Intersection of East […]

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