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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.

Rock ’n Bowl Registration

July 7, 2016 by WORT Web Department

Back to the Future: The People’s Prom

March 31, 2016 by WORT 89.9FM

WORT is celebrating its 40th anniversary—that YOU made possible—with the WORT People’s Prom. We’re going back to our first year of broadcasting, 1975, and inviting you to bask in the music, dances, and fashion of that time. Where and when: East Side Club, Capitol Room, Saturday, April 2, 7:30pm until 11:30pm. The Capitol Room has […]

WORT Record Riot

March 22, 2016 by WORT Web Department

WORT FM returns to High Noon Saloon on Saturday, March 26! Hundreds of rock, folk, jazz, world and classical records will be available at rock bottom prices. Other local vinyl vendors will be on hand to sell and trade their wares. WORT DJs will be spinning their favorite wax all afternoon! Vendors interested in selling […]

There’s a (Record) Riot Going On!

March 25, 2016 by WORT Music Department and Aaron Scholz

Get a babysitter for the shorties and gas up the wagon—the third WORT Record Riot, the largest all vinyl sale in Dane County, will be Saturday, March 26, 12–3:30 pm, at the High Noon Saloon. This event is free and open to record collectors of all ages! The WORT Record Riot is both a necessity […]

ChiliOcracy 2016 – The Results

January 27, 2016 by WORT 89.9FM

The Results Are In! This year’s winner of ChiliOcracy is… Baldwin Street Grille!! 2nd Place went to The Echo Tap, and 3rd was captured by The Tip Top Tavern. Many thanks to all our competing restaurants, who all earned votes in this fiercely close battle! Weary Traveler, That BBq Joint, True Coffee Cafe, The Wisco, […]

Another “Nasty’ New Years at Alchemy

December 31, 2015 by WORT Web Department

For the sixth year, Alchemy is getting stanky and funky with The Mustache on New Years Eve. This benefit for WORT is a great way to welcome 2016 by shaking your booty while the Mustache inserts the funk of the stankiest variety directly into your earholes! A $10 donation is suggested at the door, and […]

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