Who Doesn't Want A Beach House?

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.

Summer’s here, along with visions of trips, vacations and outdoor fun! Can’t go sun yourself on a sandy shore? Try the next best thing: listen to wonderful music curated by our knowledgeable, passionate DJs. Here’s what’s getting the most love from WORT hosts during the past week. Just close your eyes, kick back and listen, and imagine the sand between your toes!

WORT Charts for June 19, 2018

top 30
Artist Record Label
1 BEACH HOUSE Seven (7) Sub Pop [band pictured above]
2 KING TUFF The Other Sub Pop [in town 9/18 at Orpheum]
3 GUIDED BY VOICES Space Gun GBV Inc.
4 PANDORAS, THE Hey! It’s The Pandoras Burger
5 UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA Sex & Food Jagjaguwar
6 COURTNEY BARNETT Tell Me How You Really Feel Mom + Pop
7 LA LUZ Floating Features Hardly Art
8 PARQUET COURTS Wide Awake! Rough Trade
9 DR OCTAGON Moosebumps Bulk/Caroline
10 BURN THE PRIEST Legion: XX Epic
11 OF MONTREAL White Is Relic/Irrealis Mood Polyvinyl
12 ARCTIC MONKEYS Tranquility Base Hotel And Casino Domino
13 SUUNS Felt Secretly Canadian
14 LES SANS CULOTTES She Is Tossed By The Waves But Doesn’t Sink Disque Escargo-go
15 CLAUDETTES Dance Scandal at the Gymnasium Yellow Dog
16 HOT SNAKES Jericho Sirens Sub Pop
17 CHILDISH GAMBINO “This is America” [Single] RCA
18 OKKERVIL RIVER In The Rainbow Rain ATO
19 DAMIEN JURADO The Horizon Just Laughed Secretly Canadian
20 MOONDOGGIES, THE A Love Sleeps Deep Hardly Art
21 JOHN PRINE The Tree of Forgiveness Oh Boy
22 LORD HURON Vide Noir Republic
23 SPEEDY ORTIZ Twerp Verse Carpark
24 LEON BRIDGES Good Thing Columbia
25 JANELLE MONAE Dirty Computer Bad Boy
26 DR DOG Critical Equation We Buy Gold/Thirty Tigers
27 BREEDERS, THE All Nerve 4AD
28 RY COODER The Prodigal Son Fantasy
29 SHAKEY GRAVES Can’t Wake Up Dualtone
30 DAVID BYRNE American Utopia Nonesuch

top adds
Artist Record Label
1 JOHNNY MARR Call The Comet New Voodoo [The Smiths’ guitarist plays solo, pictured above]
2 PRIESTS Suck Sister Polygon
3 JOHN PARISH Bird Dog Dante Thrill Jockey
4 ESSEX GREEN, THE Hardly Electronic Merge
5 INNOCENCE MISSION, THE Sun On The Square Badman
6 MAD CADDIES Punk Rocksteady Fat Wreck Chords
7 UNI Uni Chimera
8 JOHN DUFFEY Epilogue Smithsonian Folkways
9 ETHAN GOLD Live Undead Bedroom Closet Covers Elektrik Gold
10 CLAPTONE Fantast PIAS

Heavy top 10
Artist Record Label
1 AMORPHIS Queen Of Time Nuclear Blast
2 LIK Carnage Metal Blade
3 AT THE GATES To Drink From The Night Itself Century Media
4 SKINLESS Savagery Relapse
5 BURN THE PRIEST Legion: XX Epic
6 BLEEDING THROUGH Love Will Kill All Sharptone
7 MICAWBER Beyond The Reach Of Flame Prosthetic
8 ALKALOID Liquid Anatomy Season of Mist
9 KATAKLYSM Meditations Nuclear Blast
10 EXMORTUS The Sound Of Steel Prosthetic

Heavy adds
Artist Record Label
1 IMPENDING DOOM The Sin And Doom Vol. II Entertainment One
2 SHYLMAGOGHNAR Transience Napalm
3 COHEED AND CAMBRIA “The Dark Sentencer” [Single] Roadrunner
4 HAKEN L-1VE InsideOut
5 EMBRACE OF THORNS Scorn Aesthetics Iron Bonehead

world top 10

Artist Record Label
1 FATOUMATA DIAWARA Fenfo Shanachie [pictured left]

2 ANDY BASSFORD The Harder They Strum Registered Alien
3 ANGELIQUE KIDJO Remain In Light Kraven Works
4 BOMBINO Deran Partisan
5 MYSTIC BOWIE Mystic Bowie’s Talking Dreads Red River
6 SLY AND ROBBIE MEET DUBMATIX Overdubbed Echo Beach
7 MYSTERY OF THE BULGARIAN VOICES, THE BooCheeMish Prophecy
8 CHANCHA VIA CIRCUITO Bienaventuranza Wonderwheel
9 THIEVERY CORPORATION Treasures From the Temple ESL
10 BROWNOUT Fear Of A Brown Planet Fat Beats

jazz top 10
Artist Record Label
1 MILES DAVIS AND JOHN COLTRANE The Final Tour Sony/Legacy
2 EDDIE HENDERSON Be Cool Smoke Sessions
3 ELIANE ELIAS Music From Man From LaMancha Concord
4 KENNY BARRON QUINTET Concentric Circles Blue Note
5 JARED GOLD Reemergence Strykezone
6 ELLIS MARSALIS QUINTET Plays the Music of Ellis Marsalis ELM
7 NELS CLINE 4, THE Currents, Constellations Blue Note
8 JOEY ALEXANDER Eclipse Motema
9 KURT ELLING The Questions Okeh
10 RENEE ROSNES Beloved Of The Sky Smoke Sessions

electronic top 10
Artist Record Label

1 SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO Murmurations Wichita [pictured right]

2 NICKODEMUS A Long Engagement Wonderwheel
3 CHROME SPARKS Chrome Sparks Counter
4 THIEVERY CORPORATION Treasures From the Temple ESL
5 BRAZILIAN GIRLS Let’s Make Love Six Degrees
6 FAKEAR All Glows Counter
7 CUT CHEMIST Die Cut A Stable Sound
8 JON HOPKINS Singularity Domino
9 NIGHTMARES ON WAX Deep Shadows Remix [EP] Warp
10 DANIEL AVERY Song For Alpha Mute

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