Your Source for the Best New Music = 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!

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.

Our top add is the new John Fogerty album The Holy Grail featuring Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top. Support WORT Community Radio today with your pledge at wortfm.org or call 608-256-2001 now!

WORT top 30 for June 12, 2018
Artist Record Label
1 BEACH HOUSE Seven (7) Sub Pop
2 KING TUFF The Other Sub Pop
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 JOHN FOGERTY (FEATURING BILLY GIBBONS) The Holy Grail BMG
2 GOTCHA COVERED VARIOUS ARTISTS Catch Me Time
3 WE ARE SCIENTISTS Megaplex 100%
4 TOWER OF POWER Soul Side Of Town Mack Avenue
5 ROLLING BLACKOUTS COASTAL FEVER Hope Downs Sub Pop
6 MELODY’S ECHO CHAMBER Bon Voyage Fat Possum
7 LYKKE LI So Sad So Sexy RCA
8 YASMINE HAMDAN Jamilat Reprise Crammed
9 RIVER WHYLESS Kindness, A Rebel Roll Call
10 GET UP KIDS, THE Kicker [EP] Polyvinyl

Heavy rock 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 PARKWAY DRIVE Reverence Epitaph
7 BLEEDING THROUGH Love Will Kill All Sharptone
8 GRAVEYARD Peace Nuclear Blast
9 MICAWBER Beyond The Reach Of Flame Prosthetic
10 ALKALOID Liquid Anatomy Season of Mist

Heavy adds
Artist Record Label
1 MADBALL For The Cause Nuclear Blast
2 ORANGE GOBLIN The Wolf Bites Back Candlelight/Spinefarm
3 AMERAKIN OVERDOSE The Great Amerakin Dream Self-Released
4 WITCHSORROW Hexenhammer Candlelight
5 SEPULTURA Arise Expanded Edition Rhino
6 YOB Our Raw Heart Relapse
7 NABERUS Hollow Eclipse

world top 10
Artist Record Label
1 FATOUMATA DIAWARA Fenfo Shanachie
2 ANDY BASSFORD The Harder They Strum Registered Alien
3 MYSTERY OF THE BULGARIAN VOICES, THE BooCheeMish Prophecy
4 BOMBINO Deran Partisan
5 STING AND SHAGGY 44/876 A&M
6 THIEVERY CORPORATION Treasures From the Temple ESL
7 ZIGGY MARLEY Rebellion Rises Tuff Gong Worldwide
8 MYSTIC BOWIE Mystic Bowie’s Talking Dreads Red River
9 TURBANS, THE The Turbans Six Degrees
10 CHANCHA VIA CIRCUITO Bienaventuranza Wonderwheel

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
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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