mel & floyd Archives - WORT 89.9 FM

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!

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.

You Like Us! You Really Like Us!

September 28, 2018 by WORT News Department

Once again, WORT 89.9 FM is Madison’s favorite local radio station in the Arts & Media section! Voters in Isthmus’ “Mad Faves” Poll selected WORT, listener-sponsored community radio, as Madison’s Favorite Local Radio Station while Mel & Floyd, a “hilarious blend of political commentary, weird news, and stand-up comedy,” again won Favorite Local Radio Show. As with all of […]

Yertle The Turtle

August 25, 2017 by Mel & Floyd

This week on Mel & Floyd: Thanks to the Minions, dancing at Orton, weekly Trump resignation, lame ducking?, white genocide, Trump voting absolution, the great San Francisco Poop Out, Monona sewage, Mar-a-Lago woes, Afghanistan strategy, good canibals, labor interests, Pants’ eclipse report, Sam Clovis, Wal Mart + Google, Bunny hurricane, crazy praise for North Korea, […]

WORT Tops the Madison Favorites Poll

August 24, 2017 by WORT Music Department

Congratulations are in order…for US! In the Isthmus Madison’s Favorite Poll, your community radio station WORT 89.9 FM cleaned up in the Arts & Media section. Mel & Floyd are Madison’s Favorite Local Radio Show (and second Favorite Local Podcast) Dylan Brogan is Madison’s Favorite Local Journalist Radio/TV (as well as winning for Print/Web for his work at […]

Totally Eclipsed

August 18, 2017 by Mel & Floyd

This week on Mel & Floyd: Bannon blows his horn, Confederate flag waving, Americans in Germany, alternative history of the 20th century, southern constitution, protest hilarity, yummy yummy Foxconn dough, prescription for being an American, vandalism of monuments, Obama’s record setting tweet, eclipsing the President, Life after Hate, Russian web hosting, Amazon Fulfillment Center, Australian […]

Snark and Sweetness

July 21, 2017 by Mel & Floyd

This week on Mel & Floyd: Higher education is ruining America, the good old days when teachers could smoke, Earl Comstock: whale hunter lobbyist, Senator Jon Rohnson, Chinese gaffes, pimps in Brazil, nothing burger news, Catholic gluten and near wine, transparency of the border wall, selfie deaths, bird songs, American birthrates

Summertime Motif

July 7, 2017 by WORT News Department and Mel & Floyd

This Week On Mel & Floyd: Resizing rocks and belly tickling are the new norm, While Qatar’s pronunciation is still a mystery to some, plus some “really really good” facts on how to keep supplying the demand of coal.

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