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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.

Monona Grove School Board Candidates Discuss the Election

March 21, 2018 by WORT News Department

Four candidates are seeking to fill three open seats on the Monona Grove School Board. The board consists of seven members and each member serves a three-year term. The Monona Grove School District is comprised of three elementary schools, a middle school, and a high school. They also oversee a Liberal Arts Charter School. WORT […]

Landmarks Commission to Make Recommendation on Confederate Monument

March 20, 2018 by WORT News Department

The Madison Landmarks Commission will make a recommendation on what should happen to a large monument in Forest Hills Cemetery tonight. The United Daughters of the Confederacy put the monument there in 1906, and it remembers confederate soldiers buried in a portion of the cemetery known as Confederate Rest. After many quiet years in the […]

UW Women’s Hockey Team Seeks Vengeance on Ice

March 15, 2018 by Game On!

This weekend, the UW Women’s Hockey Team will compete in the NCAA tournament’s “Frozen Four.” On Friday night at 7 p.m., Wisconsin takes on Colgate University in Minneapolis. On the other side of the bracket is Clarkson University and Ohio State. Earlier in the year, Ohio state bested Wisconsin, putting a blotch on a near […]

Madison Students Join Nationwide Walkout Demanding Action Against Gun ...

March 14, 2018 by WORT News Department

Thousands of students across the Madison area walked out of their classrooms today to protest gun violence. They came from middle schools, high schools, and the UW campus — and joined a national student movement. Their message? Do something to end mass shootings. It’s been one month since the shooting at a high school in […]

Madison Students Plan Walkout to Demand Safety from Gun Violence

March 12, 2018 by WORT News Department

This Wednesday, public high school students around the region, and the world, will walk out of school demanding political action to ensure safety from gun violence. Online events show that thousands of students and their supporters will participate in Madison alone. March 14th, will mark one month since the deadly shooting at a high school […]

Candidates for the Madison Board of Education Debate at Forum

March 7, 2018 by WORT News Department

Candidates for the Madison Board of Education participated in a forum at Mt. Zion Baptist Church on Madison’s south side last night. The Capital Times, Simpson Street Free Press and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority hosted the forum. All three candidates attended: Mary Burke, a three-term incumbent running unopposed for Seat 2, as well as incumbent […]

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