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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.

Ben Phillips’ Scorpio Moon

January 13, 2019 by WORT 89.9FM

Scorpio Moon, a Chicago based Jazz trio led by trumpeter and Madison native Ben Phillips, with Jakob Heinemann (bass), and Lucas Gillan (drums) plays moody, thoughtful compositions, but also draws on pop culture with tunes like ‘Space Oddity’ by David Bowie and music from Twin Peaks, among others. Scorpio Moon aims to combine acoustic and […]

Dave King Trio + Major Vistas

December 12, 2018 by WORT 89.9FM

Perhaps you know Dave King as the drummer in The Bad Plus, or any number of avant-improv/indie-rock/Americana/electronic experimental bands rooted in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. But somewhere in that mix is a deep fondness for the jazz tradition. The Dave King Trio, featuring a rhythm section of pianist Matt Mitchell and bassist Billy Peterson, investigates […]

Trio Mokili

December 12, 2018 by WORT 89.9FM

Trio Mokili Join us for Trio Mokili on Friday, December 14, 2018 at 8pm. Tickets are $20 in advance online at http://triomokili12.bpt.me until 1 hour before the performance. Tickets $25 at the door starting at 7:30pm. The ALL Jazz Series is sponsored in part by Dobhan Restaurant, Alchemy, and Heid Music. Trio Mokili play roots […]

Displaced Horizons

October 9, 2018 by WORT 89.9FM

Displaced Horizons is a multimedia project focusing on water infrastructures’ socio-cultural and historical complexities to encourage a re-visioning of current water systems. Join us October 27th for an exhibition of video, photographs, and maps and performance featuring musicians John Dieterich (Deerhoof), Chris Jonas (Anthony Braxton, Cecil Taylor), Robert Lundberg (JOBS, Nestle) Ryan Packard (Fonema Consort, […]

The Lovestruck Balladeers / Mal-O-Dua

September 18, 2018 by WORT 89.9FM

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The Lovestruck Balladeers carry traditional styles into modern times and bringing new sounds to old music! The Lovestruck Balladeers will perform in Madison, Wi at The Brink Lounge on Tuesday October 16th at 7:00. Madison’s Mal-O-Dua will open. Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 day of show. On Tuesday October 16th […]

John Raymond’s Kind Folk Quartet

September 4, 2018 by WORT 89.9FM

New York-based jazz trumpeter John Raymond’s collective quartet Kind Folk, featuring fellow New York-rising stars Alex LoRe (alto sax), Noam Wiesenberg (bass) and Colin Stranahan (drums), performs at Arts + Literature Laboratory on Saturday, September 15, 2018 at 8pm. The tour supports their first album for Fresh Sound New Talent that will be released in […]

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