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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.)

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.

Engineering Committee Meeting

December 10, 2019 by thom jones

A monthly meeting to discuss the vast array of technological issues facing WORT. From anti-virus to transmitters, we cover it all.

WORT Record Riot At Art In

November 22, 2019 by Music Department

The 2019 WORT Record Riot is on Saturday, November 23rd from 1 til 4 pm at the Art In, 1444 East Washington Avenue. We’re back at it again and will be offering the public the best of what we’ve cleaned out of the nooks and crannies here at the station as well as donated vinyl […]

WORT Debuts Climate Change Series

August 26, 2019 by 8 O'Clock Buzz

If you live in a coastal city like Jakarta, Miami Beach, or Tuvalu, you’re only too familiar with the effects of climate change. Even in the continental interior, as in Wisconsin, climate change is real. On September 9th, WORT reporter Helena White debuts her new series on the impact of Climate Change on Wisconsin. Helena […]

Kiosk for August 5, 2019

August 4, 2019 by Insurgent Radio Kiosk

This is the Insurgent Radio Kiosk for Monday, August 5th This Day in Labor History Action Calendar On this day in labor history, the year was 1917. That was the day IWW leader Frank Little was buried in Butte, Montana. Little had been lynched on August 1, by police agents thought to be working for […]

History’s Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them: A conver...

February 21, 2019 by Perpetual Notion Machine

Author Jennifer Wright talks with the PNM team about her most recent book “Get Well Soon: History’s Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them”. This book is a whimsy and humane romp through some of history’s most terrifying disease outbreaks. We talk with Jennifer about how the anti-vaccine movement has been around since at […]

WORT Programming Committee Meeting

November 27, 2018 by Music Department

The WORT Programming Committee regularly meets on the 2nd Monday of the month from 5-7 pm at the station, 118 South Bedford Street. The public is welcome to attend.

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