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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!

The Sugar Shack gives visitors a taste of yesteryear.

July 20, 2021 by Danielle Kronau and WORT News Department

Old-time music greets customers as they walk into the Sugar Exchange–a nostalgic candy shop in downtown Janesville. But certain aspects of the Sugar Exchange are a bit more modern, in what owner Courtney Perakis calls, “a twist for old-school.” The walls are covered with embossed teal wallpaper. The shop, situated on 119 N. Main St. […]

Joan Steinau Lester, “Loving Before Loving: A Marriage In Black ...

July 5, 2021 by Madison BookBeat

Madison authors, topics, book events and publisher Stu Levitan welcomes the social justice activist, educator, award-winning columnist, and author Joan Steinau Lester. Her memoir Loving Before Loving: A Marriage in Black and White is just out from our very good friends at the University of Wisconsin Press. Along with her Madison publisher, Joan also could […]

Madison Shakespeare Re-Emerges from Pandemic

July 5, 2021 by 8 O'Clock Buzz

Madison Shakespeare Company will present two special pop-up performances this July in anticipation of the summer premiere of the full-length comedy All’s Well That Ends Well. The events are scheduled for 7 PM Thursday July 8 on the Stone Horse Green in downtown Middleton, and 5 PM Saturday July 10 at Everyday Kitchen on Madison’s […]

An All-American Fourth of July Celebration on Musica Antiqua

July 2, 2021 by Musica Antiqua

Want a change of pace as you get ready to go watch fireworks this Fourth of July? How about listening to music composed before the founding of the United States, featuring artists who live in New York, Boston, Miami, Chicago, Los Angeles, … and Madison? Tune in this Sunday for an all-American Musica Antiqua, as […]

Madison, the first week of July in the late 1960s

June 30, 2021 by WORT News Department

Madison – the first week of July in the late 1960s. On the balmy fourth of July 1965, a crowd of about 60,000 pack Vilas Park for the 14th annual Lions Club fireworks display. Three days later, the UW chapter of the Young Americans for Freedom stages the first conservative political demonstration in Madison, picketing […]

Desire Lines: My Seven Mothers

June 7, 2021 by Desire Lines

Pernille Ipsen spent her early years in a feminist collective in Copenhagen. She recently wrote a book about the seven women who raised her, which won a major Danish literature prize. On this week’s Desire Lines, Pernille talks to feature story contributor Carrie Ann Welsh about the story of her seven mothers. Images from the […]

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