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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.

Ghadir Shafie and the BDS movement in Palestine

June 15, 2016 by A Public Affair

On today’s edition of “A Public Affair,” Karma talks with Ghadir Shafie, a Palestinian activist and citizen of the state of Israel, to discuss the Palestinian campaign of boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel. Palestinians appealed to people around the globe to pressure their respective states to impose embargoes and sanctions against Israel. They […]

“A Public Affair” bids farewell to host Karma Chavez

June 15, 2016 by A Public Affair

Tune in at noon as A Public Affair bids farewell to Wednesday host Karma Chavez. On her final show before continuing her journey to Texas, she will speak with Freedom Inc’s M. Adams, discussing the movement and the future. For her last episode, Karma talks with M. Adams on the struggles for racial, economic and […]

Pledge Drive: Karma honors Operations Coordinator Norm Stockwell

June 8, 2016 by A Public Affair

Institutions are only as good as their people, and they stay alive through the hard work and institutional memory of those people. WORT thrives on the institutional memory and the labor of Norm Stockwell, and has since 1983. At the end of this month, he will be leaving WORT to take his new position as […]

What’s the Real Cost of Budget Cuts in the UW System?

May 24, 2016 by A Public Affair

With the state cutting funding to the UW system and the restructuring of the tenure system, APA asked, “What are the effects?” On Friday, the Faculty Council of Senators of the University of Wisconsin Colleges became the latest institution to endorse a resolution of no confidence in UW System President Ray Cross and the Board […]

Week in Review

May 21, 2016 by Dylan Brogan and WORT News Department

(WORT) — This week we cover a new legal challenge to Wisconsin’s voter ID law, a debate over public education in Milwaukee, sports concussions and Tone Madison editor Scott Gordon gets the details on Mr. Jackson’s new album. Contributors this week: Darien Lamen, Karma Chavez, Elizabeth DiNovella, Nigel O’Shea and Scott Gordon.

The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the R...

May 18, 2016 by A Public Affair

How is it that the very people of Wisconsin who stand to benefit from strong government services not only vote against the candidates who support those services but are vehemently against the very idea of big government? This is the question asked by today’s guest, Katherine Cramer, in her new book “The Politics of Resentment.” […]

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