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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.

Madison, fourth week of January

January 24, 2020 by WORT News Department

Madison in the Sixties – the last week of January 1963 — The UW Protection and Security Department hires its first female investigator, Nancy Marshall, a former member of the Madison Police Department’s Bureau of Crime Prevention. Campus police chief Albert Hamann says Marshall, a former home economics teacher in Sheboygan Falls, will handle investigations involving women and juveniles. […]

Celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day With Us

January 17, 2020 by Chali Pittman and WORT News Department

On Monday, WORT will feature two special live broadcasts honoring the life and work of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. From noon to 2pm, we will simulcast the State of Wisconsin tribute and ceremony at the Capitol, hosted by Dr. Jonathan Overby. The program will celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. King with […]

Madison, the third week of January in the Sixties

January 15, 2020 by WORT News Department

Madison in the sixties – the third week of January January 18 1962 — The most important cultural and social institution in the Greenbush neighborhood celebrates its fiftieth anniversary of its founding — the Club Lavoratori Italiani Sicilia di Mutuo Sucorso e Beneficenza, more widely known as Italian Workmen’s Club. The club opened its fine brick building […]

What’s the Word: Hip-Hop

January 6, 2020 by WORT News Department

If you happened to be walking down King Street on Friday night, you probably heard some heavy hip-hop beats trickling out of the Majestic for its annual Hip-Hop Fest. This week on “What’s the Word,” Adam Schuster takes us back to the South Bronx in the 1970s, telling the story of hip-hop’s history, its development […]

How fabric changed history with Kassia St Clair

January 1, 2020 by A Public Affair and Chali Pittman

Throughout history, fabric has been used, produced, and altered by humans. We have engineered textiles to allow humans to survive in space and Antarctica. Fabric has clothed our best athletes and with-stood ocean winds on sailboats. Author Kassia St Clair researched fabric in her second book The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History. She joins us […]

What’s the Word: Comics

December 16, 2019 by WORT News Department

If you’re a pop-culture junkie chances are you’re already aware that HBO’s hit TV series Watchmen wrapped up its first season last night, the series receiving glowing reviews over the last couple months. It’s just the latest in a series of films and TV shows to turn comic book content into mainstream success. This week […]

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