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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.

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September 19, 2019 by Tone Madison

The programming this fall at UW Cinematheque includes a series on the work of Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami. It kicks off on Friday, September 20 with the documentary Homework and continues over the next three Fridays with a trilogy of films released in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s known as the Koker Trilogy: Where […]

Escalating US–Iran Conflict

June 27, 2019 by A Public Affair

Tensions between the US and Iran are escalating with the Trump administration’s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal and the recent approved-then-cancelled air strike. With the threat of war looming on the horizon, Allen spends the hour with Middle East specialist Scott Harrop to make sense of these developments. Scott Harrop is a specialist on […]

US–Iran Relations: History and Updates

May 23, 2019 by A Public Affair

The US appears to be escalating its drive to start a war with Iran. To shed light on the situation, Allen speaks to two long-time observers of US intervention in the Middle East, David Barsamian and Jennifer Loewenstein. David Barsamian is an investigative journalist and critic of US imperial policy, especially in the Middle East […]

Iran–US Relations and Dispatches from Baghdad

March 14, 2019 by A Public Affair

For today’s two-part episode, we focus our attention on the Middle East. Our first guest is Trita Parsi, who offers an overview of current Iran–US relations. In the second segment, Michael Zweig gives updates from his recent trip to Baghdad for the Iraqi Social Forum. Trita Parsi teaches at the Center for Security Studies at […]

US–Iran Relations and the Iran Nuclear Agreement with Scott Ritter

January 31, 2019 by A Public Affair

For today’s episode, Allen gets updated on US–Iran relations and the history and current status of the Iran nuclear deal with Scott Ritter, author of Dealbreaker: Donald Trump and the Unmaking of the Iran Nuclear Agreement. Scott Ritter is a former Marine intelligence officer who, as a chief inspector for the United Nations in Iraq […]

Split Show: US–Iran Relations and the Kavanaugh Hearings

October 4, 2018 by A Public Affair

It’s a split show today! The first segment features Allen’s conversation with Trita Parsi, co-founder of the National Iranian American Council. They discuss American-Iranian relations under the Trump administration. Next, we hear from Lisa Graves, former chief counsel for nominations for the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. She offers us up-to-date, on-the-ground observations from […]

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