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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!

Staying Artful Goes to the Movies!

September 12, 2020 by Staying Artful

While many offers from the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art have gone digital, one thing has not has not: Rooftop Cinema. In this installment of Staying Artful, features contributor KT Howard checks in with program coordinator Jim Kruel about how the pandemic’s effect on Rooftop Cinema. Click here to see what else MMoCA is doing […]

Teixeira ‘On Exile’ at MMoCA

March 30, 2018 by 8 O'Clock Buzz

José Carlos Teixeira is a Portuguese visual and video artist and Professor of 4D Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His current show is called “On Exile,” and it is on view at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art in the Imprint gallery until May 20th, 2018. The installation consists of two films, which both consist […]

Art Velo: Stationary Bikes Stand-in for Artist Canvas

January 30, 2017 by 8 O'Clock Buzz

On Thursday, 2/2, two dozen bicycles bolted to the floor will try to take the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art for a ride around the block. Can they unmoor the museum building from its foundation? Time will tell. It’s Art Velo, the second annual installment of an exercise, art and music fundraiser for MMOCA. Joining […]

McCaw and Budsberg: MMoCA 2016 Wisconsin Triennial Artists

December 5, 2016 by 8 O'Clock Buzz

Every three years, the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art scours the Badger State to bring you the most interesting homegrown artists working today. The Wisconsin Triennial, on exhibit now, runs through January 8th. This year’s exhibit includes works from over thirty Wisconsin sculptors, painters, performance and installation artists. Shana McCaw and Brent Budsberg have collaborated […]

WORT posters available at Gallery Night Friday

May 2, 2016 by WORT Music Department and Joseph Crawford Mrazek

On Friday, May 6th, WORT 89.9 FM Community Radio joins the explosion of art in Madison during Gallery Night. A retrospective exhibit of fine-arts prints, created specially for WORT pledge drives, will be held at the Yellow Rose Gallery, located at 122 State Street (2nd floor), from 5:00 till 9:00 p.m. The exhibit features art […]

Surrealist Ellen Lanyon

December 14, 2015 by 8 O'Clock Buzz

8 O’Clock Buzz producer Henry Parker takes us on a tour of the new exhibit of surrealist Ellen Lanyon’s work at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art.

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