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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.

Ben Phillips’ Scorpio Moon

January 13, 2019 by WORT 89.9FM

Scorpio Moon, a Chicago based Jazz trio led by trumpeter and Madison native Ben Phillips, with Jakob Heinemann (bass), and Lucas Gillan (drums) plays moody, thoughtful compositions, but also draws on pop culture with tunes like ‘Space Oddity’ by David Bowie and music from Twin Peaks, among others. Scorpio Moon aims to combine acoustic and […]

Ring In The Fall With New Music on WORT!

October 6, 2018 by WORT Music Department

Richard Thompson‘s brand new album shoots straight to the top this week, and soon he’ll be here in town to showcase these tunes live! Other notable additions to our playlists include the latest from longtime indie darlings Low, a star-studded tribute to Roger Miller (who wrote “King of the Road” and other hits,) a striking new […]

Listeners Wanted: The Graveyard Shift (Inquire Within)

August 20, 2018 by Shaun Soman

At witching hour it approaches, cloaked in lustrous darkness: goth. Although oft-maligned, and typically mistaken for it’s younger, mall-lurking cousin, goth is ubiquitous. The Mountain Goats‘ Goths addresses “a subject closer to [Peter Hughes’] heart perhaps than that of any…album previous,” Dan Bejar‘s Ken is “definitely the most goth [Destroyer] record you’re going to hear,” and Princess Nokia is carving out a space […]

What Are All The Cool Kids Listening To?

January 10, 2018 by Sybil Augustine and WORT Music Department

Closing out an amazing year for new releases, here are WORT’s final music charts for 2017. You’ll hear a number of our hosts doing “Best of 2017” shows over the next few weeks, and don’t forget you can always listen to our on-demand archives to some best-of shows that have aired already. Though they never […]

Gift Ideas from our early December Charts!

December 14, 2017 by Sybil Augustine and WORT Music Department

If you’re thinking of holiday gifts for music lovers, check out some popular new releases getting airplay on WORT. From rock to international, from metal to jazz, electronic, folk, blues and pop, we spin it all! You’ll find most of them in your local brick & mortar record store, plus get hi-fidelity advice from ever-hip […]

The inscrutable 2017

December 14, 2017 by Tone Madison

We’ve been writing this week about our favorite music that artists from Madison released in 2017. We put out our top 20 Madison records of 2017 list and we’ve got a couple other things detailing more releases that made a mark in the local music community this year. As always, it’s been a varied year for Madison music, with an […]

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