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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!

Redistricting in Wisconsin and Dane County

October 27, 2021 by A Public Affair

Every ten years, the Wisconsin state legislature draws new maps that divide the state into ninety-nine state Assembly districts and thirty-three state Senate districts. As Wisconsin approaches another redistricting process, we speak with State Senator Kelda Roys about redistricting, gerrymandering, and fair maps in advance of the legislature’s public hearing tomorrow. Then, for the second half […]

Dane County approves new voting maps

October 18, 2021 by Jonah Chester and WORT News Department

At its meeting on Thursday, Dane County’s Board of Supervisors adopted tentative new district lines for county board seats. Dane County’s new supervisory map is the result of months of work by a non-partisan redistricting commission. Earlier this month, that group put forward three map proposals to county leaders — and last night, Supervisors voted […]

Li: Reform redistricting before it’s too late

October 13, 2021 by 8 O'Clock Buzz

Michael Li, Senior Counsel of the Democracy Program of the Brennan Center for Justice, calls voting rights “The Infrastructure of Democracy”, and worries that the proposed voting rights act, which will work toward fair redistricting and representation of all people in upcoming elections is taking a backdoor to the current budget bills and may not […]

Cardinal Call: What’s Going on with District 8 Redistricting?

October 5, 2021 by The Daily Cardinal

On Tuesdays, the Daily Cardinal — one of UW-Madison’s student newspapers — shares the latest in campus news. This week, producer Hope Karnopp talks with campus news writer Charlie Hildebrand about how city redistricting plans were expected to affect the representation of Lakeshore and Southwest campus neighborhoods and the new plans that were since proposed. […]

City redistricting committee backs map preserving student district

October 4, 2021 by Jonah Chester and WORT News Department

Madison’s redistricting committee has given its approval to a new aldermanic district map. The proposed map, which still needs final approval from the city council, would preserve the UW-Madison campus as a single district. That comes after criticism that previously proposed maps would have split the student district. Alder Juliana Bennett, who represents the area […]

Representable Crowdsources “Communities of Interest”

September 27, 2021 by 8 O'Clock Buzz

Representable is trying to save democracy by crowd-sourcing information about where people live. Representable’s Michaela Daniel tells us more. Did you enjoy this story? Your funding makes great, local journalism like this possible. Donate here

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