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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.)

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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.

Madison in the Sixties – the death of Otis Redding

December 11, 2019 by Stu Levitan

Madison December 10 1967 Otis Redding was one of the breakout stars at the Monterey Pop Festival in June, and in October dethroned Elvis Presley as the year’s top male vocalist in a poll by the British music magazine Melody Maker. Now he’s coming to Madison for his first Wisconsin appearance – two shows at Ken […]

Madison, November 1967

November 23, 2019 by WORT News Department

1967 November 13[EAW1] [SL2] —A University Forum discussion of the CIA among Chancellor William Sewell; professors Anatole Beck, Frank Remington, and Kenneth Dolbeare; a representative of the pro-CIA interview Committee to Defend Individual Rights; and former WSA Senator Paul Soglin ends when Soglin declares the discussion a “dialogue of the absurd” and leads a walkout of about […]

Madison, fourth week of October – Kennedys come calling

October 23, 2019 by WORT News Department

Oct. 23, 1960 – Democratic presidential nominee Senator John F Kennedy gets a rock star welcome on his only Madison campaign appearance, the third of four stops on a whirlwind day in Wisconsin. He steps out of his twin-engine Corvair to a cheering crowd of several thousand at municipal airport, and steps into an open […]

Madison, third week of October, 1969

October 17, 2019 by WORT News Department

Madison, the third week of October, 1969. Anti-war protest, and anti-protester repression. Racial progress, personal tragedy. The legislature’s Joint Committee to Study Disruptions, formed during the Black Studies Strike in February, issues a blistering, and very one-sided report denouncing UW administrators and endorsing the bill to close the UW security office and put Madison Police […]

Madison, first week of October, 1969

October 3, 2019 by WORT News Department

With the city’s contract with the Madison Bus Company set to expire on November 10, the council takes control of the negotiations. It directs Mayor Bill Dyke to strike a deal for a six-month extension, after which the city will buy the company – provided it gets federal aid. But the company has already rejected […]

Madison, the end of September, 1969

September 25, 2019 by WORT News Department

Quarter to three in the morning of September 26, a bomb—between fifteen and twenty sticks of dynamite with a timing device—explodes at the National Guard armory on Wright Street, ripping through steel and sending the armory door flying forty yards into the drill hall, where it damages gear assembled for a monthlong training program in […]

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