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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.

The Controversy Over “Miss Saigon”

March 29, 2019 by 8 O'Clock Buzz

The management of Overture Center for the Arts has managed to upstage their run of Miss Saigon even before a note’s been sung. In response to objections over problematic narratives in Miss Saigon, the story of a romance between a young Vietnamese woman and an American G.I. during the Vietnam War, the Overture Center partnered […]

Spirituality in the Poems of Mary Oliver

January 18, 2019 by 8 O'Clock Buzz

The popular poetry and prose writer Mary Oliver—known for her meditations on the natural and spiritual world—passed away on Thursday. Widely read in introductory English classes, but sometimes shunned by “fancy critics,” Oliver won a Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for her fifth collection of poetry, American Primitive, and the National Book Award in 1992 for […]

Wizard World Comic Con Comes to Town

November 30, 2018 by 8 O'Clock Buzz

Wizard World is a traveling Comic-Con-esque fan convention across the United States. The convention will be coming to Madison, to feature all kinds of celebrities from science fiction and cult classics, from the original Star Trek, cult classic Napoleon Dynamite, and mid-90s hit Charmed. Thomas Ian Nicholas is a film actor, singer, musician, producer, director, […]

Sandee Seiberlich on Tech: Productivity Managers

November 2, 2018 by 8 O'Clock Buzz

November sees the return of Sandee Seiberlich to the Friday Eight O’Clock Buzz team. Jonathan Zarov gets her perspective on product managers and life organizers for use at work and in your personal life, looking at products like Wunderlist, Trello, Basecamp, and Habitica. -cp

Nicole Gruter’s Organizational Tips

October 19, 2018 by 8 O'Clock Buzz

Nicole Gruter has spent nearly 10 years of personally working through every stage of de-cluttering, downsizing, and letting go. She joins Friday Buzz host Jonathan Zarov to share her experience and passion for living with less. Nicole also writes and performs original work, organizes events for the Greater Madison Jazz Consortium, and slings drinks at […]

Our Relationship with Trees, with Arborist R. Bruce Allison

October 12, 2018 by 8 O'Clock Buzz

Renowned arborist R. Bruce Allison is a professor in the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology at UW-Madison, cooperative researcher with the USDA Forest Products Lab, author of several books, and all-around expert on trees. He joins Friday Eight O’Clock Buzz host Jonathan Zarov in the studio to talk about the human-tree connection and give […]

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