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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!

The Untold Story of America’s Hepatitis Program

December 3, 2021 by A Public Affair

For thirty years, from 1942 through 1972, American biomedical researchers deliberately infected people with hepatitis as a way to learn about the disease and develop a vaccine. It’s a shocking history that has gone untold until now. Today, Friday host Esty Dinur spends a special WORT Birthday Boost hour with Sydney Halpern to talk about […]

Pharmacies Implicated in the Opioid Crisis, Plus Activists Push to Ban...

November 26, 2021 by A Public Affair

Since at least 2014 fake prescriptions have lead to millions of pills ending up on the back market. All the while, the pharmacies and the drug companies are making money off each pill. Last week CVS, Walgreens & Walmart were found guilty of substantially contributing to the opioid crisis in two Ohio counties. For the first […]

Criminal Justice Reform is the Real Con

November 19, 2021 by A Public Affair

Earlier this afternoon, during today’s live show, the jury announced their verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial: not guilty on all five charges of homicide and reckless endangerment for the fatal shooting of Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber and the shooting-related injuries of Gaige Grosskreutz in Kenosha, Wisconsin last year. This is a predictable but […]

Psychedelics @ UW

November 12, 2021 by A Public Affair

Today, we take a look at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s new Transdisciplinary Center for Research in Psychoactive Substances—how the center came to be, what they research, and what it might mean for the future of psychedelics in Wisconsin and the United States. Paul R. Hutson is director of the Transdisciplinary Center for Research in Psychoactive […]

Esty’s 26th Anniversary Show on Israel–Palestine

November 5, 2021 by A Public Affair

On November 7, 1995, just a few days after the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin by a right-wing Jewish settler, I hosted my first A Public Affair show. My guest was Professor Joel Beinin of Stanford University and we discussed the assassination and other issues relating to Israel and Palestine. Marking my 26th […]

Justice for Steven Donziger

October 29, 2021 by A Public Affair

Lawyer Steven Donziger has been on a house arrest for more than eight hundred days and is now facing six months of incarceration on charges of “criminal contempt.” The crime? Donziger won a landmark $9.5-billion pollution case against Chevron in Ecuador in 2011, and they have been taking him to court ever since. So much […]

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