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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.

President Trump Talks Soleimani, Economy, Dishwashers In Milwaukee

January 15, 2020 by Chali Pittman

While Democratic presidential candidates sparred in the last debate before the Iowa caucuses, President Trump held his campaign stop in Milwaukee Tuesday night. Speaking to a packed crowd of more than 12,000 supporters at the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena, Trump delivered a ninety minute speech that touched on his promises for national security, the economy, immigration, […]

Impeachment Update: Next Stop, the Senate

December 23, 2019 by 8 O'Clock Buzz

On December 18, 2019, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 230-197 to charge President Donald Trump with abuse of power, and voted 229-198 to charge the President with obstruction of Congress. After the vote, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi delayed transmittal of the articles of impeachment to the U.S. Senate — ostensibly to make […]

Impeachment Hearings: Week 1 in Review

November 18, 2019 by 8 O'Clock Buzz

Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives began public impeachment hearings to determine whether President Donald Trump engaged in “high crimes and misdemeanors” by threatening to withhold international aid to Ukraine, unless the Ukrainians investigated former Vice-President Joe Biden. House Democrats claim testimony from Deputy assistant secretary of state George Kent, diplomat Bill Taylor and […]

Trump Threatens College Funding in the Name of Free Speech

April 10, 2019 by WORT News Department

UW Madison could lose federal funding if it violates a new executive order from President Donald Trump. Trump has expressed concern about free speech on college campuses after several high profile conservative speakers were shouted down by protesters in recent years. He signed the executive order at the White House accompanied by university students from […]

Lawrence Tabak digs deep into Foxconn

December 13, 2018 by Tone Madison

Some of the best and most damning journalism on Wisconsin’s multibillion-dollar, taxpayer-funded deal with Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn has come from Lawrence Tabak, a freelance writer based in Madison. In a series of deep-digging stories for Belt Magazine and other outlets, Tabak has detailed the unjust use of property seizures and eminent domain to clear […]

Donald Trump to Speak at Foxconn Groundbreaking

June 27, 2018 by WORT News Department and Nina Kravinsky

The president is speaking in Wisconsin tomorrow. Donald Trump will give remarks ahead of Foxconn’s official groundbreaking at the Mount Pleasant site of their planned LCD display screen manufacturing campus. Wisconsin agreed to a $3 billion incentives package to lure the Taiwanese tech giant to the state. They say they’ll bring around 13 thousand new […]

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