Our Friends, The Savages (OFTS) stems from Madison, WI and cultivated in 2015. The members–Erik, John, Michael, and Shawn– come from projects past and present such as Werewolverines, Rust Belt Sermon, and Outlander. Their songs follow a landscape of highs and lows, loud and soft, groovy and choppy. Dystopian Echo are a post-punk alternative band […]
March 6 Charts: Spicy Salad Boys, Solid Freex & Screaming Females...
Madison’s Solid Freex (pictured), comprised of Trin-Tran (Steve Coombs) and sons, are poised to take over the national spotlight with their first tape release on April 13 at Mickey’s. Advance tracks have gotten play on WORT, because we love to support local music! Here’s the rest of what’s been spinning on the station this week. […]
What Are All The Cool Kids Listening To?
Closing out an amazing year for new releases, here are WORT’s final music charts for 2017. You’ll hear a number of our hosts doing “Best of 2017” shows over the next few weeks, and don’t forget you can always listen to our on-demand archives to some best-of shows that have aired already. Though they never […]
Solid Freex’s noise-punk explosion
One of the best new rock bands to emerge in Madison’s music community this year was Solid Freex, a trio consisting of a father and two sons. Sixteen-year-old Evan Coombs-Broekema plays bass, 19-year-old old Josh Coombs-Broekema plays guitar, and their dad, Steve Coombs, plays drums. All three of them share vocal duties. Steve Coombs has […]
Compact Deluxe, Help Desk, and HellMuff
Compact Deluxe will rock your faces with their instrumental Surf-Punk amazingness! Five guys with nothing to be pissed off at started a punk band. It was awkward. Fearing for their street cred, they knew they had no choice but to write songs about the one thing everyone gets pissed off at: tech support. The punx […]
WORT’s Charts Predict Your Future
Do you know whose album is pictured here? Are you curious to see what artist made #1 on the WORT Top 30 chart this week? Click now for these answers and more including a look at our world, jazz, electronic & heavy music top 10 and the hot new adds to our playlist for November. We ain’t […]
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