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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!

Bridging The Gap: Album Re-recordings and Artists’ Ownership

November 29, 2021 by Bridging the Gap and WORT News Department

On November 12th, Taylor Swift released the re-recording of the album ‘Red,” now named Red(Taylor’s Version), and immediately swept the Spotify Global Top 50 charts with all 30 songs on the album. Swift’s re-releasing these re-recordings as a means to reclaim the rights to her own music. In this week’s edition of “Bridging the Gap,” […]

WORT Phone Tree!

November 19, 2021 by Aaron Scholz

If you’ve called WORT-FM in the last 20 months you’ve reached a prerecorded message. And with our slow and cautious reopening we’ve made some recent updates to the phone tree to reflect the changing times here at the station. Here is the message you’ll hear when you dial 1-608-256-2001 in Dynamic Mono and transcribed so […]

Dane County Workers Argue for Flat-rate Pay Increase

October 30, 2021 by Labor Radio

Dane County Executive Joe Parisi introduced his proposed budget on October 1st. Within it, he includes 2 separate 3% wage increases for county employees; one to start at the beginning of the budget period in January 2022 and another to go into effect in July of 2022. Many county workers, however, are arguing against this […]

The Playing Indian Episode

October 26, 2021 by 8 O'Clock Buzz

It happens each Halloween. Walk store aisles for Halloween costumes, and you will most likely find Indian “costumes.” Or walk downtown on Halloween and find college students appropriating Native culture. You will even find it in elementary schools. Learn why Native identity and cultural appropriation should never, ever take place–at halloween, Thanksgiving or even in […]

Terry Frei, “Third Down And A War To Go: The All-American 1942 W...

October 25, 2021 by Madison BookBeat

Madison authors, topics, book events and publishers We click on two of the criteria today as Stu welcomes the award-winning journalist Terry Frei, author of Third Down and a War to Go: The All-American 1942 Wisconsin Badgers, from our very good friends at the Wisconsin Historical Society Press. The 1942 Wisconsin football team, was coached […]

Madison, Oct. 18, 1967 – The Battle of Dow

October 20, 2021 by WORT News Department

Madison, October 18, 1967. The Battle of Dow. It was the Students for a Democratic Society chapter at the University of Michigan which first targeted the Dow Chemical Company in August 1966, protesting its manufacture of the incendiary gel Napalm B for use in Vietnam. But it was at the University of Wisconsin that the […]

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