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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.

The Wisconsin Idea and Agriculture Education

March 14, 2019 by Perpetual Notion Machine

Is university research reaching out into the state? Ripon High School Teacher and owner of ParkElm Farms Natasha Paris talks about her experiences with UW extension agents, accessing research, and the limitations she sees in the field (literally!). We also discuss teaching science literacy in ag education, how to determine credible sources, and nuance in information […]

Oregon School District to Build a Net Zero Elementary School

February 7, 2019 by Wisconsin Energy Broadcast

A planned Oregon Elementary School will be the first Net Zero School in Wisconsin! According to the World Building Council a Net Zero Carbon Building “is a building that is highly energy efficient and fully powered from on-site and/or off-site renewable energy sources.” In November of 2018 the Oregon School District voters approved a referendum […]

The Year of the Pig

January 31, 2019 by Two for the Blues and Art Schuna

Two For the Blues celebrates Chinese New Year 2019, The Year of the Pig. Chinese New Year is February 5-19. We have had a tradition of marking this holiday with a blues show featuring music about the animal of the year. You will hear 2 hours of music about pigs including “I’m a Hog For […]

Want to run the mighty WORT soundboard?

January 30, 2019 by WORT News Department

WORT FM has an immediate opening for a weekly radio engineer You will run the soundboard and control the studio mics, satellite news feed, station announcements, multi-line phone system, and technical operations for our live broadcasts for two hours a week. You will be an essential part of making live radio happen at Madison’s Favorite […]

Wisconsin Democrats Lay Out Priorities for 2019

January 15, 2019 by WORT News Department

Just halfway through the first month of the year, and Wisconsin politics in 2019 are already starting to heat up. Democratic Governor Tony Evers said today he’d propose accepting federal medicaid expansion dollars, even as he was met with resistance from top Republicans, who still hold majorities in both chambers of the Legislature. Also today, […]

Madison in the Sixties: January – The Second Week of January

January 9, 2019 by WORT News Department

A firefighter falls, new housing for migrant workers, a new gun registration ordinance, and a twin tragedy in Vietnam. Just some of the events making news this week in Madison in the Sixties. The second week of January January 8, 1966 – Fireman Daniel P. Parkinson Jr., 33, dies of smoke inhalation when a falling […]

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