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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!

New Year’s Day Show: Looking Back, Looking Forward

January 1, 2021 by A Public Affair

Today, we kick off 2021 with a looking-back/looking-forward conversation with alder Rebecca Kemble, a longtime Madison organizer, water protector, labor activist, and housing advocate. She talks about her hopes for the new year—the rising generation, community rights, the power to act collectively—and discusses important moments from 2020 in Madison city government, including higher resident participation […]

Exit Interview: Alder Marsha Rummel

December 26, 2020 by 8 O'Clock Buzz

Alder Marsha Rummel has represented Madison’s east side for the 6th District for nearly 14 years. Earlier this month, she announced that she’s stepping back, and won’t be running in the 2021 spring election. A lot has happened in a decade and a half—so much that Buzz host Jonathan Zarov realized they’d just scratched the […]

Goodbye, Alders: Max Prestigiacomo and Michael Tierney

December 9, 2020 by A Public Affair

Madison’s Common Council is made up of twenty alders elected by members of their district. This coming election cycle, five alders have announced they are not seeking re-election. For today’s show, Wednesday host Ali Muldrow talks with two of the outgoing alders, Max Prestigiacomo (district 8) and Michael Tierney (district 16), who reflect on their time […]

Trump Campaign Files Lawsuit Seeking to Overturn Wisconsin Election Re...

December 1, 2020 by WORT News Department and Martin Rakacolli

Photo by Connor Betts on Unsplash. The lawsuit from Trump’s legal team asks the Wisconsin Supreme Court to throw out hundreds of thousands of votes in Milwaukee and Dane County. It aims to garner Wisconsin’s ten electoral votes for President Trump, in a state president-elect Joe Biden won by more than 20,000 votes. The lawsuit, […]

Exploring the 2021 Dane County and Madison City Budgets

November 10, 2020 by A Public Affair

Last night, the Dane County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the 2021 county budget and starting tonight, the Madison Common Council will be reviewing city budget proposals for next year. Today on the show, we get an inside look into these budgets—and the challenges and priorities of each—with Dane County Board chair Analiese Eicher and […]

WORT speaks with voters at the polls

November 4, 2020 by WORT News Department, Martin Rakacolli and Jonah Chester

Wisconsin voters cast more than double the amount of absentee ballots for this election compared with 2016. Despite that number, and the ever-present threat of COVID-19, some Madisonians still made it to the polls today to vote in person. Yesterday, WORT producer Jonah Chester and reporter Martin Rakacolli visited ten polling places throughout the greater […]

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