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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.

June Music Charts: Hot Licks & Warm Picks!

July 12, 2019 by WORT Music Department

Here are all our rock, blues, jazz, world, electronic and heavy metal charts for the month of June. There’s so much great new music coming out – be sure to shop at your local stores first!! Black Mountain took over the top spot in the latter half of the month, with Shana Cleveland, King Gizzard […]

Living Inside Fearless Entropy w/ Furnace Born and Jebidiah B.C.

November 30, 2018 by WORT 89.9FM

LIVING INSIDE FEARLESS ENTROPY w/ FURNACE BORN and JEBIDIAH B.C. L.I.F.E. (LIVING INSIDE FEARLESS ENTROPY) – A band from Southern Wisconsin bringing you the music in their hearts. “Life is a disorganized cluster of chaos, come along with us and Become The Fearless.” https://www.facebook.com/LivingInsideFearlessEntropy/ FURNACE BORN – A pure death metal band dedicated to Visceral […]

Mourn the Light // Cosmic Relic // Cold Black River

December 10, 2018 by WORT 89.9FM

Mourn the Light (CT) Embrace the Darkness 2019 tour brings them to Madison, Wisconsin with local support from Cosmic Relic and Cold Black River. More info soon… Donations suggested. Mournthelight.bandcamp.com Cosmicrelic.bandcamp.com Coldblackriver.bandcamp.com

Hot Charts: New Discs with a Difference!!

March 1, 2019 by Sybil Augustine

Check out this week’s charts!! Also, on Friday March 1st, Beat Orgy A Go-Go presents a special pledge program at 8pm. Host Bill The Walkin’ Dr.,in an effort to boost ratings, has coerced The Other Mr. S. into co-hosting the show. Please call 608-256-2001 to show your support or pledge securely online. As an incentive […]

6th Annual Mead & Metal Fest

November 20, 2018 by WORT 89.9FM

The lineup is solidified for this year’s Mead & Metal Fest, being held Saturday, January 5th, 2019 from 6-10p at our Mead Hall in downtown Madison! Bos Meadery is once again proud to present a berserk array of local hard rock and metal at our annual Viking-themed winter festival: Preomnor, The Gran Fury, subatomic, Bon […]

Must-Have New Music!

December 4, 2018 by Sybil Augustine

Ty Segall keeps his chart-topping spot this week, but Escape-ism, aka Ian Svenonius, makes a move to overtake him with his new album on Merge Records. And Charles Bradley zooms to #1 on our Blues chart with the posthumously-released Black Velvet. Read on to see what’s hot on our jazz, world, metal and electronic shows this […]

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