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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!

Yes We Cannabis!

September 1, 2021 by A Public Affair

Today, WORT reporter Jade Iseri-Ramos and hemp farmer Kattia Jimenez co-host a show about all things cannabis—state policy in Wisconsin and across the country, the effects of the 2018 farm bill, the future of legalization, and more. For the first half, they are joined by cannabis journalist Mona Zhang. Then, they talk about Kattia’s farm […]

The Future of Weed in Wisconsin

February 17, 2021 by A Public Affair

Governor Tony Evers is proposing to legalize recreational and medical marijuana as part of the next state budget. What could this mean for the future of weed in Wisconsin? For this episode, Wednesday host Ali Muldrow hosts a cannabis equity roundtable with Los Angeles–based journalist Amanda Chicago Lewis, who reports on cannabis issues nationally; Peter […]

Contested Cannabis: Marijuana Criminalization in Context

January 27, 2020 by 8 O'Clock Buzz

As marijuana becomes legal and mainstream in state after state, the claims for cannabis medical and health benefits continue to grow. The legal and social history of marijuana criminalization means, however, that there’s a scarcity of research into the substance. It’s hard to study something when the mere possession of it is a felony. Lucas […]

The state of marijuana in Wisconsin in 2019

December 23, 2019 by Chali Pittman and WORT News Department

The local evening news takes a look at marijuana in Wisconsin in 2019: various executive and legislative moves to decriminalize marijuana or legalize it for medical purposes, issues in the state’s burgeoning hemp industry, a journalism project on the disproportionate outcomes of prohibition, and the social justice provisions included in Illinois’ legalization that begins January […]

Split Show: Uranium Mining and Medical Cannabis

December 20, 2019 by A Public Affair

“We have to start looking at water as a living entity, a living being, and put it on the endangered species list forever,” says activist and Lakota member Carla Rae Marshall. For today’s first segment, we hear her firsthand account of the tribal protests against uranium mining in South Dakota. For the rest of the […]

Wisconsin Republicans Push Limited Medical Marijuana Legalization Bill...

December 11, 2019 by WORT News Department and Jade Iseri-Ramos

In 33 states and DC, marijuna can be prescribed as a part of medical treatment. It’s used to treat patients with chronic pain, cancer, epilepsy, and several other ailments. But in Wisconsin, marijuana is not a legal treatment–despite efforts by Governor Evers and Democratic state lawmakers. Two Republican lawmakers today announced legislation that could legalize […]

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