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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.)

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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.

What’s the Word: Halloween

October 28, 2019 by WORT News Department

We’re only a few days out from Halloween, and this week on “What’s the Word,” Adam Schuster takes us back to the origins of the holiday, tracing its relationship to the yearly harvest and its significance as a moment when the dead and living are thought to coincide.

The Legendary Witchcraft of Scandinavia

October 29, 2018 by 8 O'Clock Buzz

As Halloween approaches, the Wisconsin Historical Society digs deep into the origins of European witchcraft legends. On Tuesday, October 30 at 7:00 p.m., Halloween Eve — if you will — Amber J. Rose, a University of Wisconsin Ph.D. candidate in Old Norse and Swedish folklore, gives a presentation entitled “The Devil Goes North: Witchcraft Trials, […]

History Sandwiched In: History That Goes Bump in the Night

September 20, 2017 by WORT 89.9FM

In celebration of Halloween, we’ve delved deep into the crypt and have unearthed some unique specimens from the Wisconsin Historical Society’s Library-Archives. The Society’s Library-Archives collections contain items ranging from the creepy and weird to the superstitious and mystical. Join Society Reference Archivist Simone Munson to discover oddities from the Wisconsin Historical Society – if […]

Jim J Celebrates Halloween

July 12, 2017 by Access Hour

WORT listener from Wayne, Michigan vacations again to visit Madison, Wisconsin, and the WORT studios, and does a music program… he and his wife have a great idea for a fun Halloween “spooktactular.”

Halloween at the Farm

October 2, 2017 by Music Department

The annual kids’ event, Halloween at the Farm, is being held at Schumacher Farm Park in Waunakee on Saturday, October 28 from 4-9 pm. This farmyard event geared towards children under 12 years old (but fun for all ages) will feature old-fashioned Halloween games, live music, including Boo Bradley and Ken Lonnquist, face painting, storytelling, […]

Interview With a Vampire… Expert

October 26, 2017 by 8 O'Clock Buzz

It’s the haunting season, so Thursday Buzz host Tony Castañeda interviews vampire expert Professor Tomislav Z. Longinović. Not only does he study vampires, but he’s an expert on cultural transmission of legends and myths. He’s a professor in the Slavic Languages and Literatures Department at the University of Madison, and author of Vampire Nation: Violence as […]

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