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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.

ChiliOcracy 5 at Harmony Bar

March 20, 2019 by WORT 89.9FM

Tired of the same old boring elections? Join WORT at the Harmony Bar from 3 to 6pm on Sunday, April 7th for ChiliOcracy 5, featuring fantastic chili from area restaurants. Enjoy some foot stompin’ bluegrass from The Ad Hoc String Band! Restaurants will compete for the title “Supreme Commander of Chili” and your votes decide […]

89.9 Social Club Pizza Party

March 15, 2019 by WORT 89.9FM

Join WORT Volunteers and Staff at the Mason Lounge (416 S. Park St.) on Wednesday, March 20 for a Pizza Party at 6:30 pm, followed by The Old Tin Can String Band at 8:30. Falbo Bros. Pizzeria, right next door on South Park, is generously donating their fantastic pizza–enough to feed all attendees. If you’ve […]

WORT Record Riot

March 14, 2019 by WORT 89.9FM

Join WORT on Saturday, March 30th at Art In (1444 E. Washington Ave.) from 1 to 4pm and browse thousands of Rock, Jazz, Country, and other LPs from WORT and additional vendors. WORT DJs will be spinning their finest platters throughout the afternoon. This event is free and open to the public. The WORT Record […]

WORT Hires New Tech Director

March 3, 2019 by WORT News Department

WORT welcomes Thom Jones as our next Technology and Facilities Maintenance Director. Thom comes to WORT with a lifetime of experience wrangling technology. Or as Thom puts it, “Been working in IT since IT was just short for Italy.” He was the IT Manager at Isthmus Publishing for more than a decade, where he overhauled their […]

Record Sale at Harmony Bar to Benefit WORT

February 27, 2019 by WORT 89.9FM

On Sunday, March 10th, Harmony Bar, 2201 Atwood Ave., will host a Vintage Vinyl Record sale from 11 am until 3 pm. Many dealers and private collectors will be putting out their stock of jazz, rock, R & B, country records to tempt and tantalize your quest for great records! A portion of proceeds will […]

Jimmy Buffett Tribute Heated Up the Harmony

February 24, 2019 by WORT 89.9FM

Chuck Bayuk and the Drunken Sailors played a great afternoon of music by Jimmy Buffett on Sunday, February 24th to benefit WORT Community Radio. WORT would like to thank Chuck and the boys, as well as Harmony Bar and Grill on Atwood Ave. for hosting the event. It was a cold, blustery day, but it […]

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