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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!

Indigenous Foodways & Climate Change

September 2, 2021 by Perpetual Notion Machine

This month on the Wisconsin Climate & Energy Broadcast hosts, John Greenler and Jessica James, go into the field to interview Dan Cornelius, a member of the Oneida Nation, farmer, and a leader on the Intertribal Agricultural Council. Dan’s focus on environmental initiatives and Native American tradition and innovation shines throughout this show as he […]

Access for All: Centering equity in the climate & energy conversa...

June 17, 2021 by Perpetual Notion Machine

This month on the Wisconsin Climate & Energy Broadcast, Abby Corso joins hosts John Greenler and Jessica James to discuss how to center equity in the climate and energy conversation. Corso talks about state and federal policies and how frontline-communities and local governments are leading the charge for an equitable energy transition. Abby Corso is […]

Introducing the Wisconsin Climate & Energy Broadcast

May 20, 2021 by Perpetual Notion Machine

WORT 89.9FM Madison · PNM: Introducing The Wisconsin Climate & Energy Broadcast Welcome to a new feature of PNM called the Wisconsin Climate & Energy Broadcast, an offshoot of the Wisconsin Energy Broadcast hosted by Heather Allen and Nan Fey. This is a show about clean energy and climate change, ranging from reducing carbon in our […]

COVID-19 Vaccines

January 7, 2021 by Perpetual Notion Machine

This week on PNM, Ary & Josh discuss current COVID-19 vaccines: what they are, how they work, how they came out so quickly, and whether or not you should be nervous about them. (Spoiler alert: you shouldn’t be nervous!) We used Ary’s master Google Doc to shape this show, so feel free to check out […]

No More Landfill! Complex Plastic Recycling in Post-Industrial Waste

December 10, 2020 by Perpetual Notion Machine

Tonight the Perpetual Notion Machine talks with Professor George Huber and Professor Reid van Lehn of the University of Wisconsin – Madison Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and the Department of Energy’s Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center. They are the co-authors of the paper ‘Recycling of multilayer plastic packaging materials by solvent-targeted recovery and […]

Fungus Among Us with Dr. Christina Hull

November 5, 2020 by Perpetual Notion Machine

Tonight on PNM Ary sits down with Dr. Christina Hull, a UW Madison Professor in Biomolecular Chemistry and Medical Microbiology & Immunology. Dr. Hull studies the process by which a dormant fungal spore transitions (germinates) into an actively growing fungus (yeast) in order to identify therapeutic targets and learn more about the basic biology of […]

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