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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!

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.

The Reid Poetry Hour

November 3, 2018 by WORT 89.9FM

A one-hour spoken word program featuring Nathan J. Reid’s original work, which will be shared in both a live and pre-recorded capacity.

Wine & Chocolate with Author Lorna Landvik

March 8, 2019 by WORT 89.9FM

702WI invites you to Madison Chocolate Company with bestselling author Lorna Landvik on Saturday, April 13th at 7pm for a special off-site event featuring chocolate, wine, and conversation! Lorna will talk about her new novel Chronicles of a Radical Hag, and Madison Chocolate Company will provide the sweet treats. Tickets are $10 and include: * […]

Keith O’Brien, author of Fly Girls

February 7, 2019 by WORT 89.9FM

Join 702WI on Tuesday, March 5th at 7pm for the launch of the paperback edition and young reader edition of Keith O’Brien’s New York Times Bestseller Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History. A book signing will follow. The event is free and open to the public! Please RSVP […]

Author Reading & Book Signing: Madhuri Vijay

December 18, 2018 by WORT 89.9FM

Join 702WI for a reading and Q&A with author Madhuri Vijay about her debut novel The Far Field. Author David McGlynn will introduce, and a book signing will follow. The event is free and open to the public! Please RSVP if you plan to come: https://bit.ly/2SU7OmQ In the wake of her mother’s death, Shalini, a […]

The Reid Poetry Hour

May 18, 2018 by WORT Music Department

A one-hour spoken word program featuring Nathan J. Reid’s original work, which will be shared in both a live and pre-recorded capacity.

Author Reading & Book Signing: Laura Jean Baker

August 28, 2018 by WORT 89.9FM

Join 702WI as we welcome author Laura Jean Baker, who will read from and discuss her new memoir, THE MOTHERHOOD AFFIDAVITS! Baker will be introduced by Rachel Werner, Digital Editor at BRAVA, a Wisconsin-based magazine created by women for women. A book signing will follow. The event is free, but please RSVP. With the birth […]

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The Reid Poetry Hour

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Keith O’Brien, author of Fly Girls

Author Reading & Book Signing: Madhuri Vijay

The Reid Poetry Hour

Author Reading & Book Signing: Laura Jean Baker