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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.

FREE Easter Community Meal

April 13, 2019 by WORT 89.9FM

Enjoy a Meal in Community on Easter Sunday! Menu Baked Ham, Veggie Egg Casserole, Scalloped Potatoes, Spinach Salad, Carrot Cake. Festive desserts and artisan breads donated by Classen’s European Bakery. Visit by the Easter Bunny always enjoyed by the young and young at heart! Piano music and song by Kathleen Maldegen. Questions or want to […]

Lonesome Willie Jones & His Dime Store Posse w/ Gadjo Players

July 6, 2018 by WORT 89.9FM

Join Lonesome Willie Jones & His Dime Store Posse for country weepers, crooner classics, and more… The Gadjo Players are an eclectic jazz band from Madison, WI. Donations suggested.

Lonesome Willie Jones & His Dime Store Posse w/Oak Street Ramblers...

July 6, 2018 by WORT 89.9FM

Join us for country weepers, crooner classics, and more… Though their influences hail from much further south, the Oak Street Ramblers call home the East Side of Madison, WI. A bluegrass band in the tradition of Flatt and Scruggs, Jimmy Martin, and Hazel Dickens, the Oak Street Ramblers specialize in bluegrass stompers, classic country weepers, […]

A Tone Madison audio extra: The torment of pedal pub season

April 24, 2018 by Tone Madison

The high for today is a balmy 68 degrees (so close!), which means winter is finally fully on its way the hell out the door. The other side of that coin, though, is the return of pedal pubs, scourge of Madison’s moderately respectable drinking establishments. One of the most popular pieces we’ve ever run on Tone […]

A Room of One’s Own faces the future

June 16, 2016 by Tone Madison

Tone Madison‘s Scott Gordon asks Sandi Torkildson of A Room of One’s Own about her decision to put the long-running downtown Madison bookstore up for sale, and about how culture and business have changed in Madison since the store was founded in 1975. The music in this segment is by Tippy. Subscribe to the Tone Madison/WORT-FM […]

MATC President Defends Southside Expansion, Leaving Downtown

April 20, 2016 by WORT News Department and Darien Lamen

Jack E. Daniels, President of Madison Area Technical College, has been drumming up support for a new campus on Madison’s South Side. WORT’s Darien Lamen spoke with him about the proposal, as well as some of the criticisms leveled against it.

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