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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.

Madison School District May Face Lawsuit

December 19, 2019 by WORT News Department and Shaun Soman

Yesterday, the Madison Metropolitan School District received a demand letter from the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty. The letter, which is usually the step taken before an entity files a lawsuit, relates to the District’s guidance document about how staff can support transgender, non-binary, and gender-expansive students. Sherie Hohs is a social worker and has […]

LGBT+ Pride Year-Round

September 18, 2019 by A Public Affair

Pride isn’t just for the summer! For today’s episode, Ali spends the hour with Steve Starkey, executive director of OutReach LGBT Community Center, and Woof’s Madison owner Dino Maniaci to talk about gay history, the evolution of LGBT rights, how the community is growing, and what it means to be an advocate year-round.

Love and Stonewall: Perfect Harmony Men’s Chorus Spring Concert

May 7, 2019 by WORT 89.9FM

Love and Stonewall Perfect Harmony Men’s Chorus Spring Concert featuring the Wisconsin premiere of “Quiet No More: A Choral Celebration of Stonewall” Friday, May 31, 2019, 7:30pm Sunday, June 2, 2019, 3:00pm Christ Presbyterian Church, 944 E. Gorham St., Madison, Wisconsin. Fifty years ago this June, bar patrons and community members said “no more!” to […]

Let’s Talk LGBTQ+ Rights with Fair Wisconsin

May 1, 2019 by A Public Affair

Today on the show, Ali sits down with Megin McDonell, executive director of Fair Wisconsin, to discuss the legal and political climate for the LGBTQ+ community. Along the way, they discuss the role of LGBTQ-friendly candidates in local and state elections, the rainbow wave, anti-discrimination policy and Tony Evers’s first executive order, the election of […]

Gender Fest

January 7, 2019 by WORT 89.9FM

Join us on Saturday, February 2nd, 2019 for a variety show in celebration of all genders, particularly trans, non binary and GNC folx, in the realm of music and art! 6-10PM | $5-10 slding scale | +21 Tickets: https://genderfest.bpt.me This is a safer space. No hate speech or discrimination tolerated. —MUSIC— Gender Confetti!!! https://genderconfetti.bandcamp.com/releases Dequadray […]

The History of OutReach and the Future of PRIDE in Madison

August 21, 2018 by A Public Affair

Today’s episode comes to you in the wake of Madison’s PRIDE parade and rally this past weekend. For this hour, guest host Emily Mills, editor of Our Lives Magazine, is in conversation with Steve Starkey, executive director of OutReach LGBT Community Center. They discuss the recent controversy around police presence at the parade, along with […]

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