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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.

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!

Run for the WORT Board of Directors!

April 15, 2021 by WORT Board of Directors

WORT is holding an election for two (2) open Participating Member seats and one (1) open Listener Sponsor seat on the Board of Directors of Back Porch Radio Broadcasting, Inc. to serve 3-year terms, concluding at the Annual Meeting in June, 2024. A Listener-Sponsor Member is anyone who has donated at least $40 in the […]

Ladyscissors Releases “Ascending Like Flies” Music Video

April 12, 2021 by 8 O'Clock Buzz

Madison band Ladyscissors, which features Lorrie Hurckes and Brent George on guitar, Anne Bull on bass and Stephanie Rearick on drums, had been planning a tour when the pandemic hit. With the live universe ground to a halt, the band turned to video projects instead. Ladyscissors released their new music video for “Ascending Like Flies” […]

WORT Finalists in 2020 WBA Awards For Excellence

April 1, 2021 by Chali Pittman and WORT News Department

WORT is proud to announce that our staff and volunteers have placed in the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association 2020 Awards for Excellence. Top finishers have not yet been announced, but finalists are guaranteed to place first, second, or third in their category, meaning we are guaranteed to bring home some honors. 6pm Local News Producer Jonah […]

Five WORT News Finalists in Milwaukee Press Club Awards

March 12, 2021 by Chali Pittman and WORT News Department

The WORT News Department is pleased to announce that its reporters are finalists in five Excellence in Wisconsin Journalism Awards from the Milwaukee Press Club. It competed with radio broadcast outlets across the state, most of which have significantly larger budgets and staff. All of these stories were produced in the midst of the COVID-19 […]

A New Way to WORT

March 8, 2021 by WORT 89.9FM

We have heard the cries of mobile and tablet users. The time has come…for the WORT App! Now you can stream WORT, check out the show archives and music set lists, find our latest web posts to listen to the latest news and talk stories, and listen to podcasts on the go–all at your fingertips. […]

UPDATE-UPDATE: WORT Streaming Issues (or lack thereof)

March 2, 2021 by thom jones

UPDATE redux (4/1/21 and no, this is not an April Fool prank): Streaming services to Alexa/Echo devices is now restored. For some reason all along, Alexa did not like the link we were sending her to play us natively (which uses TuneIn). Finally, after some internet gymnastics (contortions?) we were able to supply a streaming […]

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