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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.

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!

Pregnancy and Parenting During a Pandemic

May 19, 2021 by A Public Affair

Social work professor Tova Walsh interviewed dozens of mothers who gave birth early in the pandemic. She herself had a baby in March 2020, just as Wisconsin’s stay-at-home orders went into effect. What she learned is that it’s been an unusual time for new parents, to say the least. Today on the show, Dr. Walsh […]

Women’s New Midlife Crisis with Ada Calhoun

June 9, 2020 by A Public Affair

For this episode, Tuesday host Carousel Bayrd is in conversation with Ada Calhoun, author of the new book Why We Can’t Sleep, which highlights the struggles Gen X women experience as the perpetually ignored “Jan Brady” generation wedged between the larger contingents of Boomers and Millennials. From latchkey kid to overwhelmed parent to underpaid career […]

Activity Based Mindfulness for Kids

January 30, 2020 by WORT 89.9FM

This two-day workshop is an introduction to Inner Kids, an activity-based approach to mindful awareness developed by Susan Kaiser Greenland to enhance the well-being of children and their caregivers. Through meditation and other experiential exercises, role-play, group discussion, and talks, you will learn ways to integrate attention, balance, and compassion into daily life to strengthen […]

Everyday Freedom a public talk by Susan Kaiser Greenland

January 30, 2020 by WORT 89.9FM

In the noise and confusion of modern life it’s often lost on us that while we can’t necessarily change every situation, we have the freedom to choose how we respond and, in so doing, train ourselves and our children to be the people we aspire to be. Inside all of us is a wide-ranging array […]

The Good News About Bad Behavior

June 12, 2018 by A Public Affair

Tuesday host Carousel Bayrd speaks with journalist and author Katherine Reynolds Lewis about her book The Good News About Bad Behavior. It’s part parenting guide, part psychology explainer on why modern society makes kids so undisciplined, and blueprint for how to rebuild lost self-control, resolve family conflict, and change the trajectory of young lives. Katherine […]

It Takes a Village

November 22, 2017 by A Public Affair

Lilada Gee’s guest is Mattie Reese, a mother who shared a heartfelt video this week about the struggles she is having raising her Black son in the Madison community. At the top of the show is a rant about Roy Moore and the allegations of child sexual abuse being leveled at him. Lilada is also […]

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