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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!

The Decline of U.S. Global Power

March 11, 2021 by A Public Affair

Like Rip Van Winkle, Americans have woken up to a different world after four years in the haze of Trump’s presidency, says historian Alfred McCoy. Today, he joins Allen to discuss the current state of U.S. imperial decline. Alfred McCoy is Harrington Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is the author of […]

Dan Kaufman on the Legacies of Act 10

March 1, 2021 by A Public Affair

As we approach the ten-year anniversary of the passage of Act 10, we spend the hour with journalist Dan Kaufman to reflect on the history and legacies of Act 10 and what it’s meant for labor in Wisconsin. Dan Kaufman is a Brooklyn-based journalist who was educated in Madison public schools. His articles have appeared in […]

How the Republican Party Lost Control

February 18, 2021 by A Public Affair

Today on the show, we’re joined by journalist Henry Redman to discuss the current state of GOP politics in Wisconsin and what we’re seeing from the post-Trump Republican party at the state level, from last year’s “reopen rallies” to the insurrection at the Capitol and all the conspiracies and scandals in-between. Henry Redman is a […]

Welcome to the Bioeconomy

February 12, 2021 by A Public Affair

Science and technology aren’t neutral, argues scientist and researcher Vincenzo Pavone. Rather, they offer valid but situated knowledge and pursue political goals that reflect the priorities of their society and time. Today, we speak with Vincenzo for the hour about his latest book, Bioeconomies, and his argument that we need a new pact between science, […]

How White Evangelicals Came to Lead the Insurrection

January 29, 2021 by A Public Affair

Last spring, we talked with historian Matthew Sutton on the show about the apocalyptic politics of the American evangelical right. Today, we’ve invited him back to discuss his latest article in the New Republic, “The Capitol Riot Revealed the Darkest Nightmares of White Evangelical America” and do a deep dive into the recent history of […]

Nebraska’s Rural Rebellion

January 25, 2021 by A Public Affair

After the 2016 election, writer Ross Benes noticed that people in places like New York City (where he lives now) were suddenly curious about “flyover” states like Nebraska, where he grew up. “If I was ever going to write about my hometown and get people to notice, this would be the time,” he says, “while […]

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