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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.

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!

Discussing the Women Artists Forward Fund’s Forward Art Prize on...

July 1, 2020 by 8 O'Clock Buzz

The mission of the Women Artists Forward Fund is to address gender disparity issues that exist for women artists, by providing them with financial resources to strengthen their work, along with recognition and community support to leverage their creative capital. Bird Ross, Brenda Baker, Angie Contreras, and Karin Wolf talk with Friday Buzz host Jonathan […]

How the Theater Community is Responding to COVID-19

March 31, 2020 by A Public Affair

Today on the show, we take a look at the impact of coronavirus on theater arts with Jennifer Uphoff Gray, artistic director of Forward Theater Company, and Carey Cannon, associate artistic director at American Players Theatre. Together with Carousel, they share personal stories about how theater has affected their lives and discuss the importance of […]

Highlighting UW–Madison’s First Wave Scholarship Program

January 22, 2020 by A Public Affair

For today’s show, Ali highlights the work of Sofia Snow, a community leader, writer, and performing artist who was recently named the director of the Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives (OMAI) at UW–Madison. Sofia, herself a graduate of OMAI’s First Wave hip-hop scholarship program, discusses her path from the East Coast to Madison, her extensive […]

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 […]

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