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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!

The Dangers of Fossil Fascism

September 17, 2021 by A Public Affair

“What does the rise of the far right mean for the battle against climate change?” That is the question posed by a new book co-authored by Andreas Malm and the Zetkin Collective called White Skin, Black Fuel. For today’s show, we feature Friday host Esty Dinur’s interview with Andreas Malm about the rise of fossil […]

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September 9, 2021 by Perpetual Notion Machine

Tonight, the Perpetual Notion Machine continues the analysis of the current Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment report. Our guest is Jonathan Patz, who studies the environmental health effects from climate change on the population in the Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies and the Department of Population Health Sciences at UW-Madison. He is also […]

Police Brutality Against Water Protectors

September 3, 2021 by A Public Affair

For today’s show, Friday host Esty Dinur is joined by Jill Ferguson, a Milwaukee-based water protector who was recently arrested with violent tactics at Camp Firelight for her participation in an action protesting Enbridge’s Line 3. Jill describes the brutal way she was treated by deputy Alexander Yocum and talks with Esty about police violence […]

Colorado River Megadrought and the Future of Our Oceans

August 27, 2021 by A Public Affair

“Climate change is water change, and the sooner we recognize that, the better off we’ll be.” For today’s show, we look at the impacts of climate change on water from two different angles. First up, Eric Kuhn, former General Manager of the Colorado River District, talks about this year’s unprecedented megadrought in the western U.S. […]

The Climate Emergency is Now

August 13, 2021 by A Public Affair

Earlier this week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released their latest report emphasizing the seriousness of climate change and the urgency to act now. To help us break down what the report says—and what it means for activists and policymakers—today we spend the hour with Jonathan A. Patz, director of the Global Health […]

The Climate Crisis Now

July 16, 2021 by A Public Affair

Disastrous flooding in Germany. Record-breaking heat waves in the Pacific Northwest and Canada. Wildfires and megadrought in the western United States. The climate crisis is manifesting itself all around us—and it appears to be escalating rapidly. For today’s show, Friday host Esty Dinur takes an inside look into some of the most recent climate updates […]

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