Voted Top of the Charts Oct. 23-30

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!

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.

Here’s what got the most “votes” or spins on WORT in the last week of Rocktober. New this week: a top 10 Blues chart! Browse our playlists and listen to archives of all shows on-demand right here on the WORT website.

WORT Charts for October 30, 2018

top 30
Artist Record Label
1 ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE IMPOSTERS Look Now Concord
2 KURT VILE Bottle It In Matador
3 DEATH VALLEY GIRLS Darkness Rains Suicide Squeeze
4 CALVIN JOHNSON A Wonderful Beast K
5 YOKO ONO Warzone Chimera
6 GRINGO STAR Back To The City Nevado
7 FUCKED UP Dose Your Dreams Merge
8 DILLY DALLY Heaven Partisan
9 COBRA MAN Toxic Planet Goner
10 HIGH ON FIRE Electric Messiah Entertainment One
11 COURTNEY BARNETT Tell Me How You Really Feel Mom + Pop
12 OH SEES Smote Reverser Castle Face
13 TY SEGALL AND WHITE FENCE Joy Drag City
14 WHITE DENIM Performance City Slang
15 KING OF THE ROAD A TRIBUTE TO ROGER MILLER VARIOUS ARTISTS BMG
16 ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO The Crossing Yep Roc
17 WALTER SALAS-HUMARA Walterio Rhyme & Reason
18 PHOSPHORESCENT C’est La Vie Dead Oceans
19 CAT POWER Wanderer Domino
20 RICHARD THOMPSON 13 Rivers New West
21 TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS An American Treasure Warner Bros.
22 JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS Bad Reputation: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Blackheart
23 SUICIDAL TENDENCIES Still Cyco Punk After All These Years Suicidal
24 LOW Double Negative Sub Pop
25 PAPERCUTS Parallel Universe Blues Slumberland
26 MORRICONE YOUTH Danger: Diabolik Country Club
27 IRON AND WINE Weed Garden [EP] Sub Pop
28 LALA LALA The Lamb Hardly Art
29 MUDHONEY Digital Garbage Sub Pop
30 JOHN HIATT The Eclipse Sessions [Advance Tracks] New West

top adds
Artist Record Label
1 ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE IMPOSTERS Look Now Concord
2 HOW TO DRESS WELL The Anteroom Domino
3 YOKO ONO Warzone Chimera
4 CLOUD NOTHINGS Last Building Burning Carpark
5 LONNIE HOLLEY MITH Jagjaguwar
6 OUTRAGEOUS CHERRY Meet Me In The Shadows Burger
7 SURFBORT Friendship Music Cult/Fat Possum
8 TURKUAZ Life In The City Self-Released
9 CARBONAS Your Moral Superiors Goner
10 ARKAICS, THE In This Time Wick/Daptone

Blues top 10
Artist Record Label
1 SHEMEKIA COPELAND America’s Child Alligator
2 BILLY F GIBBONS The Big Bad Blues Concord
3 JOE LOUIS WALKER, BRUCE KATZ, GILES ROBSON Journeys To The Heart Of The Blues Alligator
4 LINDSAY BEAVER Tough As Love Alligator
5 COLIN JAMES Miles To Go True North
6 DELTA MOON Babylon Is Falling Jumping Jack
7 BOZ SCAGGS Out Of The Blues Concord
8 JOE BONAMASSA Redemption J&R Adventures
9 REVEREND PEYTON’S BIG DAMN BAND Poor Until Payday Thirty Tigers
10 SCOTT SHARRARD Saving Grace We Save

Heavy top 10
Artist Record Label
1 REVOCATION The Outer Ones Metal Blade
2 BEHEMOTH Messe Noire: Live Satanist Metal Blade
3 ABORTED Terrorvision Century Media
4 TERRORIZER Caustic Attack The End
5 VOIVOD The Wake Century Media
6 ANAAL NATHRAKH A New Kind Of Horror Metal Blade
7 HIGH ON FIRE Electric Messiah Entertainment One
8 SKALMOLD Sorgir Napalm
9 CULTURAL WARFARE Warmageddon M-Theory
10 BRAINSTORM Midnight Ghost AFM

Heavy adds
Artist Record Label
1 ARSIS Visitant Agonia
2 WARKINGS Reborn Napalm
3 OCEAN, THE Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic [Advance Tracks] Metal Blade
4 INTO ETERNITY The Sirens Self-Released
5 AUDIOTOPSY The Real Now Megaforce
6 MOTHER FEATHER Constellation Baby Metal Blade
7 RAVE THE REQUIEM Funeral sic Out Of Line
8 RIOT HORSE Cold Hearted Woman Metalville
9 TROLLHEIMS GROTT Aligned with the True Death W.T.C.Productions

world top 10
Artist Record Label
1 JR THOMAS AND THE VOLCANOS Rockstone Colemine
2 AFRO CUBAN ALL STARS A Toda Cuba Le Gusta World Circuit
3 TE’AMIR Abyssinia Rise [EP] Tru Thoughts
4 DELGRES Mo Jodi Pias
5 JERUSALEM IN MY HEART Daqa’iq Tudaiq Constellation
6 BOKANTE AND METROPOLE ORKEST What Heat Real World
7 BEAUTIFUL NUBIA AND THE ROOTS RENAISSANCE BAND Atunluto EniObanke
8 ANCHORSONG Cohesion Tru Thoughts
9 FATOUMATA DIAWARA Fenfo Shanachie
10 GURRUMUL Djarimirri Skinnyfish

jazz top 10
Artist Record Label
1 BARRE PHILLIPS End to End ECM
2 BOBBY BROOM AND THE ORGANI-SATION Soul Fingers Self-Released
3 ANDERS SVANOE State Of The Baritone Vol. 3 Irabbagast
4 HELEN SUNG Sung With Words Stricker Street
5 KAMASI WASHINGTON Heaven And Earth Young Turks
6 JOHN SCOFIELD Combo 66 Verve
7 CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT The Window Mack Avenue
8 CHRISTIAN SANDS Facing Dragons Mack Avenue
9 KANDACE SPRINGS Indigo Blue Note
10 ORRIN EVANS AND THE CAPTAIN BLACK BIG BAND Presence Smoke Sessions

electronic top 10
Artist Record Label
1 ROOSEVELT Young Romance City Slang/Greco-Roman
2 BOB MOSES Battle Lines Domino
3 RUFUS DU SOL Solace Reprise
4 CRYSTAL METHOD, THE The Trip Home Tiny E
5 APHEX TWIN Collapse [EP] Warp
6 ANDREW BAYER In My Last Life Anjunabeats
7 MARIE DAVIDSON Working Class Woman Make It Rain
8 METRIC Art Of Doubt MMI/Crystal Math
9 RYAN HEMSWORTH Elsewhere Secret Songs/Last Gang
10 GHOSTLAND OBSERVATORY See You Later Simulator Megaforce

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