The Bubbler Archives - WORT 89.9 FM

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 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.

Bubbler Artist-In-Residence: Dance!

July 9, 2018 by 8 O'Clock Buzz

Libraries are all about permanence, serving as indexed archives of culture. The written word, photographs, moving images in physical or digital media, written musical scores, musical recordings, these are the bread and butter of libraries. But what about the ephemeral, the fleeting or the one of a kind? How do you archive those kinds of […]

Fantasy Coffin Carpenter is Bubbler Artist in Residence

March 26, 2018 by 8 O'Clock Buzz

Have you ever put any thought into the type of vessel that you’d want to be buried in? Maybe you have, maybe you haven’t – but this next story will make you think about your burial in a different way. Our next guest is the Owner of the Kane Kwei Carpentry Workshop in Teshie, Ghana […]

Rachal Duggan: The Bubbler Artist In Residence

January 1, 2018 by 8 O'Clock Buzz

Rachal Duggan is an illustrator, comic artist, instructor and live-drawer. Her work features deceptively simple line drawings, with subjects ranging from portraits of famous women authors, political cartoons and drawings of pickle jars. She’s been published in Driftless Magazine, The Pitchfork Review and Isthmus. She’s the Madison Central Library’s Artist in Residence for the months […]

Kim Charles Kay: Nov-Dec Bubbler Artist In Residence

November 13, 2017 by 8 O'Clock Buzz

Multimedia artist Kim Charles Kay grew up in Olympia, Washington and now lives in Brooklyn, New York. In between those two, she’s worked and exhibited her art up and down the U.S. East and West Coasts, Lexington, Kentucky and Rome, Italy. This month and next, she sets up shop here in the Madison Central Library, […]

Jennifer Bastian: Photo-Archivist of Emotions

July 31, 2017 by 8 O'Clock Buzz

Jennifer Bastian calls herself a photographer and an emotional archivist. She has committed to taking photographs every day to make contact with people she knows and people she’s meant to meet. She’ll be occupying the Madison Bubbler Room this month as the Madison Public Library’s Artist in Residence for the month of August, 2017. Jennifer […]

Richie Morales: Painting Is My First New Language

June 26, 2017 by 8 O'Clock Buzz

Richie Morales taught himself painting as a child growing up in Guatemala. Now residing in Madison, Morales calls painting “his new first language,” saying he now paints “with the intensity of a scream to crack open calluses of insensitivity and oblivion, to nail puncture effervescent bubbles of privilege and overconsumption.” He’ll be the latest artist […]

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