WORT's Bo$$ Lady and Mr. G appear at Radio: Unlocked conference

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.

WORT hosts Bo$$ Lady and Mr. G will appear as panelists at the Radio: Unlocked conference in Madison on Saturday (9/17). It will be held from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. at the Madison Media Institute (MMI), 2702 Agricultural Drive.

Ready to relay your shout out: WORT's Bo$$ Lady — Ready to relay your shout out: WORT’s Bo$$ Lady

Presented by MMI and the non-profit Urban Community Arts Network (UCAN), the conference is aimed at “musicians who want to learn about airplay, royalties, encoding and more.”

WORT 89.9 FM Community Radio will be represented at the conference by a pair of music hosts: Bo$$ Lady of the Universal Soul Explosion (Saturday nights, 3:00 to 6:00 a.m.), and Mr. G, co-host of Saturday Night at Smokey’s Joint (Saturdays, 10:00 p.m. to midnight) as well as a DJ at WSUM.

Mr. G has been doing left-side-of-the-dial radio for over 10 years, focusing on getting the voice of the artists out there. Not only the music, but the story behind it – the art and the artist. He believes that radio is a key bridge to opening minds to new sounds and new people, while building communities around those sounds, wherever the listener calls home.

Mr. "Smokey" G, WORT host at the mic — Mr. “Smokey” G, WORT host at the mic

In addition to her volunteer work since 2011 for WORT, Rebecca “Bo$$ Lady” Barber is a vital member of Madison’s socially conscious rap and hip hop community. She serves as a board member of UCAN and the Madison Hip Hop Awards; works as a promoter, manager and producer; and provides a key link for “shout outs” between incarcerated fans and their loved ones. For more details about Bo$$ Lady’s background and her humanitarian music projects, check these links:

http://www.maximumink.com/index.php/articles/permalink/boss_lady

http://www.broadjam.com/bosslady

For more information about the Radio: Unlocked conference on September 17th, contact UCAN at: http://ucanmadison.blogspot.com/

https://www.facebook.com/urbancommunityartsnetwork/