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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.

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!

In Conversation with Connie Schultz

August 31, 2021 by A Public Affair

For today’s show, guest host Liz DiNovella spends the hour with award-winning author and journalist Connie Schultz talking about her work at USA TODAY, her novel The Daughters of Erietown, and more. Did you enjoy this story? Your funding makes great, local journalism like this possible. Donate here

More Women in Sports, Please

August 24, 2021 by A Public Affair

According to a recent Global Sport Matters feature, just 11.5 percent of sports reporters in the United States and Canada are women, and women’s sports represent only 4 percent of total sports media coverage. These numbers are staggeringly low, especially given that women make up a big share of the viewers and fans. On top […]

WORT Seeks Local News Reporters

August 17, 2021 by Chali Pittman and WORT News Department

Looking to sharpen your audio reporting skills? Want to see how a broadcast newsroom works? WORT’s award-winning news department seeks volunteer reporters for the 6pm Local News. Applicants must be available from 11:30am-6pm once a week on one of the following days: Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Thursdays. BASIC RESPONSIBILITIES: ❏Pitch and discuss story ideas with […]

Welcome Back, Isthmus!

August 4, 2021 by A Public Affair

Extra! Extra! Isthmus is hitting newsstands tomorrow, August 5, for the first time in fifteen months after halting print production at the start of the pandemic in March 2020. On today’s show, WORT news director Chali Pittman celebrates the triumphant return of Madison’s favorite alt-weekly (now an alt-monthly) with editor Judy Davidoff, reporter Dylan Brogan, […]

How America Arms Gangs and Cartels + #FreeAssange

June 18, 2021 by A Public Affair

First on today’s show, Friday host Esty Dinur talks with journalist Ioan Grillo about his new book, Blood Gun Money: How America Arms Gangs and Cartels, investigating the enormous black market for firearms. Then, Gabriel and John Shipton, the brother and father of Julian Assange, join for a brief segment to discuss Home Run For […]

Police Are Unreliable Sources

April 26, 2021 by 8 O'Clock Buzz

On March 29, 2021, when news broke that the Chicago Police had shot and killed 13-year old Adam Toledo, CNN reported the incident as “an armed confrontation.” The Chicago Police Department released an image of a gun on twitter, and reported Officer Eric Stillman as the victim of “aggravated assault on a police officer,” by […]

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