WORT Charts Your Future For You!

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.

“There’s no good new music coming out anymore.” You may have heard people say that, but here at WORT we’re scratching our heads over why, when we’re surrounded by so much great new music every day! Don’t miss out – keep up with the latest by listening to Back Porch Radio, and visit our playlists and archives for more information. We’re always happy to help you see – and hear – how bright your future can be!

WORT Charts for July 24, 2018

top 30
Artist Record Label
1 JIM JAMES Uniform Distortion ATO
2 BUFFALO SEX CHANGE Searching Hands Admirable Traits
3 PARQUET COURTS Wide Awake! Rough Trade
4 ANGELIQUE KIDJO Remain In Light Kraven Works
5 JOHNNY MARR Call The Comet New Voodoo
6 LA LUZ Floating Features Hardly Art
7 BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW Panic Blooms Rad Cult
8 ALICE BAG Blueprint Don Giovanni
9 COURTNEY BARNETT Tell Me How You Really Feel Mom + Pop
10 SPEEDY ORTIZ Twerp Verse Carpark
11 WOODEN SHJIPS V. Thrill Jockey
12 STEPHEN MALKMUS AND THE JICKS Sparkle Hard Matador
13 SSION O DERO Arcade
14 A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS Pinned Dead Oceans
15 ROLLING BLACKOUTS COASTAL FEVER Hope Downs Sub Pop
16 PROUD PARENTS Proud Parents Dirtnap
17 SUUNS Felt Secretly Canadian
18 TOWER OF POWER Soul Side Of Town Mack Avenue
19 DAMIEN JURADO The Horizon Just Laughed Secretly Canadian
20 DAMNED, THE Evil Spirits Search and Destroy/Spinefarm
21 UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA Sex & Food Jagjaguwar
22 LES SANS CULOTTES She Is Tossed By The Waves But Doesn’t Sink Disque Escargo-go
23 CHARLES LLOYD AND THE MARVELS WITH LUCINDA WILLIAMS Vanished Gardens Blue Note
24 EELS The Deconstruction E-Works/PIAS
25 A PERFECT CIRCLE Eat The Elephant BMG
26 DR DOG Critical Equation We Buy Gold/Thirty Tigers
27 KING TUFF The Other Sub Pop
28 SOCCER MOMMY Clean Fat Possum
29 FATHER JOHN MISTY God’s Favorite Customer Sub Pop
30 45 SPIDER Bloodbath of Fuzz Rotoscope

Heavy top 10
Artist Record Label
1 GRUESOME Twisted Prayers Relapse
2 IMMORTAL Northern Chaos Gods Nuclear Blast
3 MADBALL For The Cause Nuclear Blast
4 CRAFT White Noise and Black Metal Season Of Mist
5 IMPENDING DOOM The Sin And Doom Vol. II Entertainment One
6 LIZZY BORDEN My Midnight Things Metal Blade
7 EMBRACE OF THORNS Scorn Aesthetics Iron Bonehead
8 ATROCITY Okkult II Massacre
9 BLACK FAST Spectre Of Ruin Entertainment One
10 FATES WARNING Live Over Europe inside Out

Heavy adds
Artist Record Label
1 JUNGLE ROT Jungle Rot Victory
2 MICHAEL ROMEO War Of The Worlds Pt. I Mascot
3 DEE SNIDER For The Love Of Metal Napalm
4 REDEMPTION Long Night’s Journey Into Day Metal Blade
5 IRONCORE RESISTANCE For The Fallen Pavement
6 DEREK SMALLS Smalls Change (Meditations Upon Ageing) BMG
7 PIG DESTROYER “Army Of Cops” [Single] Relapse
8 OCEAN OF ILLUSIONS “Jukai” [Single] Self-Released
9 ENRAGE “World War Me”/ “I Am The Storm” [Single] BlackSeven
10 BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME Automata Part II Sumerian

world top 10
Artist Record Label
1 ANGELIQUE KIDJO Remain In Light Kraven Works
2 PROTOJE A Matter Of Time Easy Star
3 FATOUMATA DIAWARA Fenfo Shanachie
4 BOMBINO Deran Partisan
5 CHANCHA VIA CIRCUITO Bienaventuranza Wonderwheel
6 MYSTIC BOWIE Mystic Bowie’s Talking Dreads Red River
7 KIRAN AHLUWALIA 7 Billion Self-Released
8 GLOAMING, THE Live At the NCH Realworld
9 TURBANS, THE The Turbans Six Degrees
10 MYSTERY OF THE BULGARIAN VOICES, THE BooCheeMish Prophecy

jazz top 10
Artist Record Label
1 JOHN COLTRANE Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album Impulse
2 CHARLES LLOYD AND THE MARVELS WITH LUCINDA WILLIAMS Vanished Gardens Blue Note
3 ERROLL GARNER Nightconcert Mack Avenue
4 KAMASI WASHINGTON Heaven And Earth Young Turks
5 BUSTER WILLIAMS Audacity Smoke Sessions
6 ROB DIXON TRIO FT. CHARLIE HUNTER AND MIKE CLARK Coast To Crossroads Self-Released
7 KENNY BARRON QUINTET Concentric Circles Blue Note
8 MILES DAVIS AND JOHN COLTRANE The Final Tour Sony/Legacy
9 BRAD MEHLDAU TRIO Seymour Reads The Constitution! Nonesuch
10 JOSHUA REDMAN, RON MILES, SCOTT COLLEY AND BRIAN BLADE Still Dreaming Nonesuch

electronic top 10
Artist Record Label
1 CLAPTONE Fantast PIAS
2 NICKODEMUS A Long Engagement Wonderwheel
3 CHROME SPARKS Chrome Sparks Counter
4 THIEVERY CORPORATION Treasures From the Temple ESL
5 SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO Murmurations Wichita
6 9 THEORY Good Morning From A Nuclear Ghost Elite Frequency Group
7 CUT CHEMIST Die Cut A Stable Sound
8 JON HOPKINS Singularity Domino
9 SSION O DERO Arcade
10 DANIEL AVERY Song For Alpha Mute

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