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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!

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.

Monday, June 17 — Michael Hecht’s Collaborations

June 26, 2013 by Access Hour

Music and words, mainly prose or poetry read aloud in a recorded jazz, folk, and international music milieu.

WORT at WOMEX (Intro)

October 18, 2015 by Global Revolutions

Greetings from Dan Talmo, co-host of WORT’s Global Revolutions, Monday mornings from 9am to noon. I will be attending the WOMEX World Music Expo in Budapest, Hungary from October 21 to 25. WOMEX is an annual international conference of world music artists, agents, record labels, venues, and media reps. Through my upcoming reports, WORT listeners […]

WORT Music Charts for the week of May 16-22

May 23, 2016 by WORT Music Department

Ziggy Marley [pictured] remains on top of the World charts this week; also see what’s getting played on our rock, jazz, electronic and metal shows. WORT, Madison Charts for the week beginning May 16, 2016 top 30 1 JAYHAWKS Paging Mr. Proust Thirty Tigers 2 WIRE Nocturnal Koreans Pink Flag 3 BLACK MOUNTAIN IV Jagjaguwar […]

Diaspora Best of 2016

December 29, 2016 by Diaspora

With the new year approaching, Diaspora host Terry O provides a compilation of favorite music from 2016. In no particular order: Abbar el Hamada – by Aziza Brahim – Glitterbeat label A stunning album of gorgeous songs that come from Brahim’s experience being born and raised in a Sahrawi refugee camp. “El canto de la […]

WORT Music Charts for the week of Jan. 18-24, 2017

January 25, 2017 by Sybil Augustine and WORT Music Department

Current WORT charts: This is the new music that’s been played and streamed on the station in the past week, from indie rock and folk to garage, metal, and electronic, plus jazz and international sounds. Don’t forget you can always go to wortfm.org to listen live, stream archives of past programs on demand, and to […]

Bird Calls and Pledge Calls

February 15, 2017 by Diaspora

We are nearing the end of WORT’s winter 2017 We’re Still Here pledge drive, and we still have a lot of wonderful listeners who we haven’t heard from yet! On this pledge drive edition of Diaspora, Elizabeth, Queen of Exiles and Dave Fallow, the Radio Naturalist, will be going on an audio safari with lots […]

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