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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!

Accountability in the Flint Water Crisis

January 15, 2021 by A Public Affair

Yesterday, former Michigan governor Rick Snyder and eight other top officials were indicted with forty-two charges—ranging from willful neglect of duty and involuntary manslaughter to obstruction of justice and perjury—after a new investigation into the Flint water scandal of 2014. Today on the show, WORT news director Chali Pittman takes this opportunity to do a […]

Who’s Got the Power in a Pandemic?

December 15, 2020 by A Public Affair

In the course of her reporting on local government this year, WORT news director Chali Pittman kept noticing a certain principle being invoked: the nondelegation doctrine. What is the nondelegation doctrine? And why has it played such a key role in state and local government response to the COVID-19 pandemic? Today on the show, Chali […]

Scenes of a Biden/Harris victory

November 9, 2020 by Chali Pittman and WORT News Department

Honking horns, noise makers, and shouts made up much of the sound of Madison celebrating on Saturday. Cars are still circling the state Capitol a few hours after 10:30 am, when after days of waiting, news agencies called the presidential election. The celebration for president-elect Joe Biden and vice president-elect Kamala Harris would […]

Packing the Polls and How To Vote

October 20, 2020 by 8 O'Clock Buzz

Today on the Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Damita Brown (in exile)… More on packing the polls, this week we’re talking voting in Native lands and Native issues with Maria Haskins from Menīkānaehkem in the Menominee Nation and Justice Peche from Wisconsin Native Vote in the Oneida Nation. In the second half, Damita and Chali discuss […]

Community Input on Madison’s Next Chief of Police

September 1, 2020 by A Public Affair

The Madison Police and Fire Commission is currently in the process of selecting the next Madison Chief of Police, and they’re asking for community input. Today, WORT news director Chali Pittman guest hosts for the hour with PFC Commissioner Mary Schauf to learn about the process and take listener calls and feedback to be entered […]

Rebroadcasts: Black Lives Matter / Doing Antiracism Work On Social Med...

July 7, 2020 by A Public Affair

For the first part of today’s show, we re-air a broadcast from 2018, when former host Lilada Gee spoke with Patrisse Cullors, a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement and a prison abolition advocate based out of Los Angeles. Her memoir, now essential on antiracism reading lists, is titled When They Call You a […]

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