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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.

UW-Madison Students Protest Return of “Abusive” Professor

December 5, 2019 by WORT News Department and Martin Rakacolli

Student protesters chanted “We all you love you ECE, we stand in solidarity,” as they marched up to Bascom Hall. Among them was Marcel, a graduate student at UW-Madison, one of many protesting today against the return of researcher and professor Dr. Akbar Sayeed to UW-Madison. “We are protesting because professor Sayeed drove his grad […]

Plowshares 7 — Convicted for civil disobedience against nuclear ...

December 4, 2019 by 8 O'Clock Buzz

Jan talks with Martha Hennessey, one of the members of the King’s Bay Plowshares 7, about the group’s recent trial and conviction. They are currently awaiting sentencing for their activism and face a potential 25 year prison term.

Madison Students March on State Capital, Support DACA

November 12, 2019 by WORT News Department and Martin Rakacolli

Hundreds of high school and college students from across the Madison area met at the State Capitol earlier today with one message: Preserve DACA. They chanted phrases such as “Up, up with education. Down, down with deportation” as they approached the State Capitol. DACA stands for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. It is a program […]

Protesters Call for Gun Regulation

November 7, 2019 by WORT News Department and Martin Rakacolli

A crowd of people protesting gun violence gathered on the steps of the state Capitol this morning. They called for state lawmakers to pass legislation that would strengthen restrictions on guns in Wisconsin. In October, Governor Tony Evers ordered lawmakers to meet in a special legislative session to consider two bills related to gun control. […]

Split Show: Pipeline Trespass Bill and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Ch...

October 18, 2019 by A Public Affair

Today’s two-part show takes up issues of protest and extremist religious activism. In the first segment, attorney Patricia Hammel offers updates on the new, quietly-passed legislation known as the “pipeline trespass bill” (Assembly Bill 426) that has serious consequences for environmental protesters in Wisconsin. For the remainder of the show (starting at 17:10), Esty is […]

Regents Consider Mandatory Punishments for “Free Speech” V...

October 9, 2019 by WORT News Department and Shaun Soman

On Friday the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents will decide on rules that would establish mandatory minimum punishments for students who are found to disrupt free speech on multiple occasions. If adopted, the rules will mandate that students who disrupt the free speech rights of another student or an invited speaker on two occasions […]

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