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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!

Madison’s debate over Bus Rapid Transit heats up

August 12, 2021 by WORT News Department and Jonah Chester

If you’ve been on Madison’s State Street at any point in the past month, you’ve likely noticed a plethora of signs reading “No BRT on State Street.” The debate over Madison’s Bus Rapid Transit — or BRT — project has been heating up in the past few weeks, as Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway and downtown business […]

Dane County Approves Airport Expansion

June 10, 2021 by WORT News Department and Martin Rakacolli

Photo by Free Photos on Pixabay. Currently, the Dane County Regional Airport has space for thirteen planes, and between 2019 and 2020, an all-time high of 1.1 million people used it to fly from Dane County. Michael Riechers is the marketing director for the Dane County Regional Airport. He says pandemic notwithstanding, Dane County’s projected […]

City Updates: Bus Rapid Transit and Zoning Changes

June 8, 2021 by A Public Affair

Today’s show is all about city updates! First, Thomas Lynch and Justin Stuehrenberg from the Department of Transportation tell us about the latest developments on bringing a Bus Rapid Transit system to Madison. Then, in the second half, we talk to Madison planning division director Heather Stouder about zoning changes recently approved by the city […]

Investing in Infrastructure and the Care Economy

May 10, 2021 by A Public Affair

Earlier this spring, the Biden-Harris administration announced the American Jobs Plan, “an investment in America that will create millions of good jobs [and] rebuild our country’s infrastructure.” For this show, guest host Yuri Rashkin first takes a close look at the American Jobs Plan and its implications for transportation and the built environment with Joseph […]

Wormholes for your Earholes

November 13, 2020 by Access Hour

Wish you had a time machine? Can’t find a Delorean on eBay. Over the last few years, I have been using music as a device to reconnect with old friends, quickly escape from current events, and transport myself to a different time and place through the power of music. It became such a habit that […]

Improving Public Transit for a More Just and Sustainable Society

March 16, 2020 by A Public Affair

For today’s public transit show, we first talk to professor Kafui Attoh about affects of the coronavirus pandemic on bus-ridership, the right to the city, transportation justice, and the intersections of transit and access to public life and democracy. In the second segment, Steven Higashide discusses his work with TransitCenter to support local public transportation […]

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