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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.

YA Author Event: Tami Charles

September 16, 2019 by WORT 89.9FM

Join 702WI at Goodman Community Center for this free author event with Tami Charles, who will discuss her new young adult novel Becoming Beatriz, talk about her writing process, and sign copies of her books! Students are welcome to attend. The event is free but space is limited, so please RSVP on our website: www.702wi.com

How Bookstores Against Borders became a phenomenon

October 3, 2019 by Tone Madison

About a week before the Fourth of July holiday this year, the downtown Madison bookstore A Room Of One’s Own announced that it would donate a portion of its sales over the independence day weekend to the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, also known as RAICES. The fundraiser was called Bookstores […]

Dr. Eugenia Cheng: “Using Logic to Find Clarity for Life’s...

September 12, 2019 by WORT 89.9FM

With appearances on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert and Ted Talks, YouTube sensation Dr. Eugenia Cheng will show how anyone can think like a mathematician to understand what is buried under divisive arguments and fake news. Taking a careful scalpel to politics, privilege, sexism and dozens of other real-world situations, she shows us that […]

Grief and taxidermy with Kristen Arnett

September 5, 2019 by Tone Madison

Before she held a reading this July at State Line Distillery and “escaped from an apocalypse hotel” during Madison’s memorable summer blackout, author Kristen Arnett sat down to discuss her debut novel, Mostly Dead Things, with Tone Madison‘s John McCracken. Give the conversation a listen here, or subscribe to the Tone Madison podcast on Apple […]

Jen Rubin remembers a resilient family business

April 26, 2019 by Tone Madison

Jen Rubin’s combined experiences in writing, storytelling, social policy, and education allowed her to delve into her family’s history in her first book, We Are Staying: Eighty Years in the Life of a Family, A Store, And A Neighborhood The memoir centers around Radio Clinic, an electronics repair and appliance store Rubin’s immigrant grandfather founded […]

Publishing Workshop with Chloe Benjamin

February 9, 2019 by WORT 89.9FM

Learn how to move from first draft to finished product with Chloe Benjamin, author of the acclaimed novels The Anatomy of Dreams and The Immortalists, who returns to 702WI for this special daylong workshop! The morning session will focus on revising a manuscript and finding a literary agent. After a break for lunch, you’ll explore […]

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