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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!

The Radical Possibilities of Poetry

July 29, 2020 by A Public Affair

Poetry is many things to many people. It can be a rallying cry or a soothing balm in times of crisis—and in 2020, we could use plenty of both. Today, Wednesday host Ali Muldrow discusses the radical possibilities of art and poetry with Xandria Phillips, author of the new collection HULL. Among other things, they […]

Real Queer America with Samantha Allen

March 4, 2020 by A Public Affair

Today on the show, Ali and co-pilot Ananda Mirilli take an armchair journey through the LGBT communities of rural America with journalist Samantha Allen, who relates her own story as a trans woman and offers insights from her latest book, Real Queer America. Samantha Allen is a GLAAD Award-winning journalist and author of the book […]

Revisiting 2017’s Access Denied panel

May 18, 2018 by Tone Madison

Recorded in February 2017 at the Central Library, the Access Denied panel discussion tackled issues of equity and accessibility in Madison’s nightlife. While much has changed in Madison’s venue landscape since then, the struggle to make nightlife spaces open and welcoming to all people continues. We bring you the audio from the discussion again this […]

Jennicet Gutiérrez, activista trans e indocumentada

March 29, 2016 by En Nuestro Patio

Jennicet Gutiérrez es una activista trans e indocumentada, cuyo trabajo se centra, fundamentalmente en la visibilización de las personas trans e indocumentadas en espacio particularmente vulnerables, como las prisiones. En el 2015, ganó popularidad por interrumpir al presidente Obama en un evento de la Casa Blanca para poner el tema en la agenda pública nacional. […]

Transgender Roundtable

November 19, 2014 by A Public Affair

How can health care be more trans affirmative? Are WI K-12 schools safe for trans youth? Check out this edition of A Public Affair to find out more!

Transfeminism

November 12, 2014 by A Public Affair

What is transfeminism? Is it necessary? Who defined the term? Check out this edition of A Public Affair to find out more!

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