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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.

Impeachment Proceedings Explainer and Updates

January 29, 2020 by A Public Affair

With the impeachment proceedings in the final stages, today Ali spends the hour with political scientist Sarah Binder to learn about the impeachment process in a historical context and try to make sense of what this moment could mean for American political institutions and the voting public. Sarah Binder is a professor of political science […]

March 6 Charts: Spicy Salad Boys, Solid Freex & Screaming Females...

March 16, 2018 by Music Department

Madison’s Solid Freex (pictured), comprised of Trin-Tran (Steve Coombs) and sons, are poised to take over the national spotlight with their first tape release on April 13 at Mickey’s. Advance tracks have gotten play on WORT, because we love to support local music! Here’s the rest of what’s been spinning on the station this week. […]

Who’s Getting Played: Music Charts for Feb. 12-18, 2017

February 20, 2017 by Sybil Augustine and Music Department

Tobin Sprout (pictured) tops our overall chart with the most spins last week. Here’s what else is getting played on WORT rock, jazz, world, metal and electronic specialty shows these days. Thanks so much for all your support during our Winter pledge drive, and we’ll be back to playing much more new music and doing a […]

WORT Music Charts for the first week of 2017

January 4, 2017 by Sybil Augustine and Music Department

WORT, Madison Charts for the week of January 2, 2017 top 30 artist – album – label 1 A TRIBE CALLED QUEST We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service Epic 2 JIM JAMES Eternally Even Capitol-ATO 3 DEAN WEEN The Deaner Album 4 DAVID BOWIE Bowie Legacy Sony Legacy 5 LEONARD COHEN […]

The Pixies Take Over – WORT Music Charts for the week of Oct. 1...

October 20, 2016 by Sybil Augustine and Music Department

The Pixies take our top 30 by storm this week, debuting directly at #1! Madison’s always been very supportive of Black Francis and his on-again, off-again ensemble. But with new albums also out by Moby, Lee Fields & the Expressions and Conor Oberst, they may not keep that spot for long. WORT, Madison Charts for […]

WORT Music Charts for the week of 8/15-22, 2016

August 17, 2016 by Sybil Augustine and Music Department

Here are the top albums currently being spun on our rock, electronic, metal, jazz, world/international, and eclectic music shows. You can listen to any program on-demand by clicking Audio Archives on our main page and choosing the date you want to find the playlist for. Or browse the archives at random to discover something new! […]

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