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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!

A Live Recording of Pianist Johannes Wallmann on Strictly Jazz Sounds

October 19, 2020 by Music Department

The Thursday, October 22 edition of Strictly Jazz Sounds features an exclusive live recording of Johannes Wallmann and Other People’s Dreams, in concert at Café Coda on December 18, 2018. This performance showcases three original compositions by Wallmann, who is the Program director of Jazz Studies at UW-Madison. Also on the show are new releases […]

What’s the Word: NIVA

October 12, 2020 by Whats the Word and WORT News Department

The newly founded National Independent Venue Association is hosting a virtual music festival this weekend to help save what’s often an overlooked aspect of the music industry: independent concert venues. This week on “What’s the Word,” Adam Schuster looks into NIVA’s founding, the dire conditions that live music and its venues continue to struggle through, […]

Aaron Brenton Trio at Bos Meadery

January 16, 2020 by WORT 89.9FM

Come listen to FREE live jazz and support your fellow musicians. feat. Matvei Mozhaev on piano and Samwise Baker on drums

Viking Church at Bos Meadery

January 16, 2020 by WORT 89.9FM

Join the congregation for VIKING CHURCH – Bos Meadery’s unholy celebration of all things HARD & HEAVY! This month we’ll bang our heads to: Morpheus Black, Not the Cops, and Birth of Tragedy All VIKING CHURCH shows are FREE and EARLY (because late-night masses are only for Christmas): 6:00pm – 9:00pm. Grab a horn of […]

Global PAN-demic Relief (24hr Virtual Festival)

April 22, 2020 by Sybil Augustine

The Pantam Collective is pleased to invite you to “Global Pan-demic Relief – 24hr Virtual Handpan Festival”, created in response to the global health, economic and social crisis caused by Covid 19 . The festival will feature 24 of the top handpan players, musicians, artists and builders from around the world, all who have been […]

The Good Table: Late Winter Pop-Up

January 24, 2020 by WORT 89.9FM

Hello everyone! The time has come for The Good Table’s third big event! Please join us at Bos Meadery for a comfort-food themed dinner prepared for you by The Good Table’s creative team, Katie Miller and Laura Stoesz! We will also be enjoying some lovely tunes again, provided by the one and only Linn Jennings, […]

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