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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!

Madison Shakespeare Co: ‘Henry the Fourth’ at the Bartell ...

February 5, 2018 by 8 O'Clock Buzz

England is in chaos. The country’s leaders are about to slug it out in a winner-take-all fight. And history’s greatest blowhard calls for more wine. Madison Shakespeare Company’s Henry the Fourth is the center of the Shakespeare’s Rarer Monsters season at the Bartell Theatre, presented February 9-17, 2018, in the Evjue Stage. Tickets available now. Directed […]

Sloshed Shakespeare: An Intoxicatingly Good Performance

July 31, 2017 by 8 O'Clock Buzz

“A good sherris-sack hath a two-fold operation in it. It ascends me into the brain; dries me there the foolish and dull and crudy vapours which environ it; apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes; which delivered o’er to the voice, the which is the birth, becomes excellent wit.” So said Shakespeare’s […]

The Tragedy of Macbeth

July 22, 2016 by 8 O'Clock Buzz

8 O’Clock Buzz host Jonathan Zarov interviews Madison Shakespeare Company’s producer Jason Compton. Madison Shakespeare Company’s upcoming premiere of its latest full-length production, The Tragedy of Macbeth, runs July 21 through July 24 at the Edgewood College amphitheater. Well-regarded as one of Shakespeare’s most taut and engaging works, The Tragedy of Macbeth explores timeless themes […]

Improvised Shakespeare Co. to perform at Illinois Festival

July 1, 2016 by 8 O'Clock Buzz

8 O’Clock Buzz guest host Brian Standing (sitting in for Jonathan Zarov) visits with two of Improv Shakespeare’s performers, former Madisonian Asher Perlman and former Texan John Sabine. Since 2005, Chicago’s Improvised Shakespeare Company has been slinging impromptu iambic pentameter in the style of the Bard of Avon. Based on a single audience suggestion, the troupe […]

Madison Shakespeare Co: “An Evening’s Affair 2: Shakespear...

February 12, 2016 by 8 O'Clock Buzz

Host Jonathan Zarov interviews production staff on the Madison Shakespeare Company’s “An Evening’s Affair 2: Shakespeare’s Betrayals” : Emily Morrison-Weeks: Director of two of the ten scenes Elliott Puckette: Adapter and dramaturg Jason Compton: Producer/actor/director The production will play at the following venues: Thursday February 18, 7:30 at Capital Brewery Friday February 19, 7:30 at […]

Monday, October 20th — Young Shakespeare Players of Madison and ...

October 14, 2014 by Access Hour

Young Shakespeare Players of Madison is a one-of-a-kind organization that produces full-length, un-modified Shakespeare plays year round, with everyone getting a part who tries out, and no child turned away for lack of funds.

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