Veterans from the National Veterans for Peace Conference

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.

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, )

Digital Production Director: Aaron Scholz – aaron@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!

“When I found myself in Iraq I went there for the first time in 2006 and it didn’t take me long, same point, it wasn’t about the liberation of Iraqi people, it was about the liberation of Iraqi oil fields.”- Scott Olsen on his first tour in Iraq

In the midst of the National Veterans for Peace Conference here in Madison, on our Friday August 9th show, guest host Andrés Thomas Conteris sat down with two veterans, Brian Willson and Scott Olsen, to discuss their tours and war experience and why they decided to get involved with Veterans for Peace. Brian Willson is a Vietnam Veteran who was drafted while he was in graduate school. He is also known in many communities for having participated in the Nuremberg Actions in 1987. On September 1st, 1987 when Willson and some other colleagues were blocking a train, Willson had announced he would posted for 40 days, but the train ended up running over him and cutting off his legs. Scott Olsen is an Iraq War veteran. Olsen, after graduating high school, decided to serve in the military in order to liberate Iraqi citizens; however, he to discovered that instead of liberating, he became a part of an occupying force. Both Willson and Olsen have chosen to leave behind their pasts of war and become peace activists. Over the course of the show, Willson and Olsen explained their long transition into civilian life after war and how becoming peace activists has helped them to connect with other veterans. In addition, they are now able to inform others of their own personal struggles and how they are coping with them. Willson also told listeners about his desire to help end torture in Guantanamo and Pelican Bay by having a fasting and how he has started a fasting movement with other peace activists. Conteris also told listeners about his own personal hunger strike and how he will fast, on water only, until September 5, 2013. He will then go to the White House after fasting 50 pounds or so and he has agreed that he will be feed the way that the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, which is through naso-gastric tube. Lastly, Conteris, Willson, and Olsen spoke to listeners about how they are going to continue to peacefully act through organizations such as the National Veterans for Peace Conference, closeguantanamo.net, and 2.7 Million Orange Ribbons.

If you would like to go watch and listen to Andres Thomas Conteris, Brian Willson, and Scott Olsen, they will all be at the National Veterans for Peace Conference this weekend. You can visit the National Veterans for Peace Conference website to find presentation and workshop times, speakers, and much more!