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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.

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!

WORT News Wins 5 Milwaukee Press Club Awards

May 25, 2021 by Chali Pittman and WORT News Department

The WORT News Department won five awards in the Excellence in Wisconsin Journalism Awards from the Milwaukee Press Club, including two gold awards. WORT competed with radio broadcast outlets across the state, most of which have significantly larger budgets and staff. All of these stories were produced in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. A […]

‘Tis The Season for Holiday Music

December 21, 2020 by Music Department

Had enough of holiday carols? Tune into WORT for something different. Many specials happen during this time, including “Best Of 2020” shows. Coming up later this week: Thursday 12/31 G-Man hosts Diaspora with the, er, timely theme of “Time.” About the show: Listening to music from many cultures reveals we are all made of the […]

Steven Wright, “The Coyotes of Carthage”

July 20, 2020 by Madison BookBeat

Madison authors, topics, book events and publishers Host Stu Levitan welcomes UW professor and instructor Steven Wright, author of the new political thriller The Coyotes of Carthage. Toussaint Andre Ross, known as Dre, is a talented but flawed political operative who may be down to his last campaign – a low-rent ballot initiative in the […]

Sarah M. Broom, “The Yellow House”

July 13, 2020 by Madison BookBeat

Madison authors, topics, book events and publishers Madison BookBeat host Stu Levitan welcomes National Book Award- winner Sarah M. Broom, author of The Yellow House, just out in a new paperback edition from Grove Atlantic. Her new virtual book tour starts tomorrow night at 7 in a Crowdcast conversation presented by our friends at the […]

Madison, 1961 – Civil Rights

July 8, 2020 by WORT News Department

Madison in the Sixties. 1961 – Civil Rights. Bias is big news again this year, especially on campus. Sometimes it’s accepted; sometimes it’s banned. In April, the Regents follow current informal policy and accept a $100,000 bequest from a Stoughton woman for “worthy and needy Gentile Protestant students” in their junior or senior year. The action […]

Danielle McGuire, “At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, R...

July 6, 2020 by Madison BookBeat

Madison BookBeat – Madison authors, topics, book events and publishers Stu Levitan welcomes Danielle McGuire, author of the ground-breaking and award-winning book, At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape and Resistance–a New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power. Danielle clicks on two […]

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