Bartlemania, Week Of May 2, 2026

The Doctor's social media links:

Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@bartlemania

Bluesky: https://bartlemania.bsky.social

WRFI is archiving my programs for two weeks after they air on Saturdays, 1-3PM.

Go to: https://spinitron.com/WRFI/calendar, and click on "Bartlemania" (Saturday at 1PM, natch). You will be redirected to a page with a media player and a playlist.

WBDY-LP is also allowing its Patreon subscribers to hear anything in its online archive, including previous episodes of Bartlemania. 

13:00:00  -  3:09  -  Silicon Teens  -  Chip 'N' Roll  -  Music For Parties  -  Mute

13:03:07  -  4:13  -  Traffic  -  Paper Sun  -  The Definitive Collection  -  Island

13:07:44  -  4:14  -  Traffic  -  Heaven Is in Your Mind  -  Feelin' Alright  -  Island

13:11:52  -  3:02  -  Traffic  -  Hole in My Shoe  -  Feelin' Alright  -  Island

13:14:50  -  3:34  -  Traffic  -  Medicated Goo  -  Welcome To The Canteen  -  Island

13:18:22  -  4:29  -  Dave Mason  -  Headkeeper  -  Best Of Dave Mason  -  MCA

13:23:16  -  3:36  -  Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers  -  Hey There, Little Insect  -  Modern Lovers Live  -  Berserkeley

13:26:49  -  7:31  -  Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers  -  Ice Cream Man  -  Modern Lovers Live  -  Beserkley

13:34:16  -  3:58  -  Karlee Crow Band  -  Harvest  -  At The Crow's Nest  -  Friendship Records

13:38:36  -  3:09  -  Girl Howdy  -  Honky Tonk Hair  -  Honky Tonk Hair EP  -  https://girlhowdyband.com

13:41:39  -  8:03  -  Johnny Dowd  -  Me  -  Is Heaven Real  -  https://johnnydowd1.bandcamp.com/

13:49:55  -  4:02  -  Daniel Johnston  -  Chord Organ Blues  -  Yip Jump Music, Summer 1983  -  Eternal Yip Eye Music

13:53:56  -  2:40  -  The Ophelias  -  Palindrome  -  The Ophelias  -  https://theopheliasofficial.bandcamp.com/album/the-ophelias

13:56:55  -  1:05  -  Booker T & The MGs  -  Hip Hug Her (excerpt)  -  Rock Instrumental Classics Vol. 4-SOUL  -  Rhino

14:00:27  -  48:06  -  Tetsuya Nakatani  -  Percussion Improvisation  -  Angry Mom Records, Ithaca, NY, April 22, 2026  -  no label

14:48:56  -  10:04  -  Desmadrados Soldados De Ventura  -  The Last Gasp (excerpt)  -  The Grand Celestial Purge  -  https://desmadradossoldadosdeventura.bandcamp.com/music

Bartlemania, Week Of April 25, 2026 (archive)

The Doctor's social media links:

Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@bartlemania

Bluesky: https://bartlemania.bsky.social

WRFI is archiving my programs for two weeks after they air on Saturdays, 1-3PM.

Go to: https://spinitron.com/WRFI/calendar, and click on "Bartlemania" (Saturday at 1PM, natch). You will be redirected to a page with a media player and a playlist.

WBDY-LP is also allowing its Patreon subscribers to hear anything in its online archive, including previous episodes of Bartlemania. 

Silicon Teens - Chip 'n' Roll - Music For Parties (Mute)

Nick Lowe - So It Goes - Basher (Columbia)

Steppenwolf - Faster Than the Speed of Life - Steppenwolf The Second (MCA)

Southern Culture On The Skids - Daddy Was a Preacher but Mama Was a Go-Go Girl - For Lovers Only (Safe House)

The Adverts - The Great British Mistake - The Wonders Don't Care (Pilot)

Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant - Never Mind The Bollocks (WB)

Y Pants - Favorite Sweater - Y Pants (Periodic Document)

Ramones - I Don't Wanna Go Down to the Basement (40th Anniversary Mono Mix)

David Bowie - Growin’ Up - Pinups (Ryko)

Ronnie Cook & The Gaylads - Goo Goo Muck - 7-inch (Astra)

The Modern Lovers - Girlfriend - Precise Modern Lovers Order (Rounder)

Tower of Power - Social Lubrication - East Bay Grease (Rhino)

Tower of Power - Soul Vaccination - Hempstead NY 5-14-74

Funkadelic - Uncle Jam - Uncle Jam Wants You (Priority)

Burnt Friedman & Jaki Liebzeit - The Sticks - Secret Rhythms 2 (Nonplace)

Herbie Hancock - Butterfly - Thrust (Columbia)

Dave Douglas - Eastern Parkway - Freak In (Bluebird)

Steve Tibbetts - Ten Years - YR (Frammis)

The Cosmic Jokers - Kinder Des Alls - Galactic Supermarket & Planeten Sit-In (Hifly)

Robert Rich - Entangled (excerpt) - Filaments (Soundscape)

Bartlemania, Week Of April 18, 2026

The Doctor's social media links:

Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@bartlemania

Bluesky: https://bartlemania.bsky.social

WRFI is archiving my programs for two weeks after they air on Saturdays, 1-3PM.

Go to: https://spinitron.com/WRFI/calendar, and click on "Bartlemania" (Saturday at 1PM, natch). You will be redirected to a page with a media player and a playlist.

WBDY-LP is also allowing its Patreon subscribers to hear anything in its online archive, including previous episodes of Bartlemania. 

13:00:00  -  3:07  -  Silicon Teens  -  Chip 'N' Roll  -  Music For Parties  -  Mute

13:03:06  -  3:54  -  Roger Salloom  -  Don't Let My Country Wash Away  -  I'm OK  -  https://www.rogersalloom.com/product/im-ok

13:07:18  -  9:09  -  Steppenwolf  -  For Ladies Only  -  For Ladies Only  -  MCA

13:16:37  -  7:31  -  George Clinton & The P-Funk All-Stars  -  Cosmic Slop  -  Live & Kickin'  -  Intersound

13:24:06  -  3:24  -  Kid Koala  -  Skanky Panky  -  Live From The Short Attention Span Audio Theater Tour  -  Ninja Tune

13:27:29  -  4:03  -  Suba  -  Segredo (Secret)  -  The Now Sound Of Brazil  -  Six Degrees

13:31:30  -  3:29  -  King Tubby  -  Higher Ranking  -  Hometown Hi-Fi  -  Jamaican Recordings

13:35:26  -  2:23  -  Tom Lehrer  -  So Long, Mom (A Song For World War III)  -  That Was The Year That Was  -  Reprise

13:37:48  -  13:12  -  The Butterfield Blues Band  -  East-West  -  East-West  -  Elektra

13:51:15  -  2:23  -  The Button Pushers  -  The Overworld Is A Large and Dangerous Place  -  Music For 8-Bit Video Games  -  Nobody's Favorite Records

13:53:35  -  4:25  -  El Chicano  -  Viva Tirado, Part 1 (excerpt)  -  Rock Instrumental Classics, Vol 4  -  Rhino

14:00:44  -  13:29  -  The Grateful Dead  -  Dancing In The Streets  -  Springer's Ballroom, Portland, OR, January 18, 1970  -  no label

14:14:39  -  22:43  -  5IVE  -  The Hemophiliac Dream, Part 1  -  The Hemophiliac Dream  -  Tortuga

14:37:43  -  20:17  -  Robert Fripp  -  Loop III (excerpt)  -  The Kitchen, NYC, February 5th, 1978, late show  -  Discipline Global Mobile

Bartlemania, Week Of April 11, 2026 (archive)

I will be live in the studio on Saturday, April 11th, 2026, on WRFI, Ithaca/Odessa/Watkins Glen. I'll see about posting a playlist from that show.

This playlist is for an archive program which is going out to all other stations which carry Bartlemania.

The Doctor's social media links:

Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@bartlemania

Bluesky: https://bartlemania.bsky.social

WRFI is archiving my programs for two weeks after they air on Saturdays, 1-3PM.

Go to: https://spinitron.com/WRFI/calendar, and click on "Bartlemania" (Saturday at 1PM, natch). You will be redirected to a page with a media player and a playlist.

WBDY-LP is also allowing its Patreon subscribers to hear anything in its online archive, including previous episodes of Bartlemania. 

Silicon Teens - Chip 'N' Roll - Music For Parties (Mute)

Big Brother & The Holding Company - Combination of the Two - Cheap Thrills (expanded) (Columbia)

Big Brother & The Holding Company - Flower In The Sun - Cheap Thrills (expanded) (Columbia)

Moby - James Bond Theme (Moby's re-version) - I Like To Score (Elektra)

Led Zeppelin - Two Ones Are Won (Achilles Last Stand) (Reference Mix) - Presence (expanded) (Swan Song)

Kraan - M C Escher - Kraan (Interchord)

The Flashcubes - Girl From Germany - Flashcubes On Fire (Northside)

Tower Of Power - What Is Hip - Live & In Living Color (WB)

DJ Logic - Shea's Groove - Project Logic (Ropeadope)

Buddy Holly - Not Fade Away - From The Original Master Tapes (MCA)

Johnny Cash - Delia's Gone - American Recordings (American)

Peaches and Crime - He Done Me Wrong I Did Him In - Vaude-VILLAINS! (Peaches & Crime)

First North American Lunar - Bird Theater - Live, Sep 29, 2012, Brooktondale, NY

The Firesign Theatre - Shoes for Industry - Drop-Ins (bc)

Tim Hecker - In The Air, Parts 1-3 - Ravedeath 1972 (Kranky)

Lord Buckley - H-Bomb - Bad Rapping of the Marquis DeSade (World Pacific)

Mount Shrine - Across Rooftops - Shortwave Ruins (Cryo Chamber)

Electric Golem (Trevor Pinch & James Spitznagel) - A Bag of Parts (voice of Robert Moog)  - Rongovian Embassy May 22 2016 

Tangerine Dream - Part 1 Nottingham Nov 8 1976 (excerpt) - The Bootleg Box Set Vol 2 (Cherry Red)

Bartlemania, week of April 4, 2026

On Saturday, April 4th, 2026, I was accessing my Instagram account when I noticed that something wasn't quite right. It didn't work when I tried to "love" or bookmark something. Next thing I know, I get a message saying that my account has been suspended for a violation of some kind.

I am DONE with Meta. I've had it with not being able to report spammers and scammers, of which I've encountered a few. I've had it with their buggy interface, their wonky AI and their non-existent customer support. 

The Doctor's social media links:

Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@bartlemania

Bluesky: https://bartlemania.bsky.social

WRFI is archiving my programs for two weeks after they air on Saturdays, 1-3PM.

Go to: https://spinitron.com/WRFI/calendar, and click on "Bartlemania" (Saturday at 1PM, natch). You will be redirected to a page with a media player and a playlist.

WBDY-LP is also allowing its Patreon subscribers to hear anything in its online archive, including previous episodes of Bartlemania. 

13:00:00  -  3:09  -  Silicon Teens  -  Chip 'N' Roll  -  Music For Parties  -  Mute

13:03:06  -  2:09  -  The Pipkins  -  Gimme Dat Ding  -  Gimme Dat Ding  -  Capitol

13:05:38  -  4:21  -  Edgar Broughton Band  -  Don't Even Know Which Day It Is  -  Edgar Broughton Band (the "meat" album)  -  EMI

13:09:56  -  4:05  -  Faces  -  Wicked Messenger  -  First Step (1970)  -  WB

13:14:00  -  2:29  -  Captain Beefheart  -  Ella Guru  -  Trout Mask Replica  -  Reprise

13:16:54  -  3:11  -  Grateful Dead  -  Cold Rain & Snow  -  Winterland Arena, San Francisco, CA 1967-March-18  -  no label

13:20:00  -  6:25  -  Salloom, Sinclair & The Mother Bear  -  Florida Blues  -  Salloom, Sinclair And The Mother Bear  -  Big Pink

13:26:26  -  3:39  -  Brian!  -  Cascade  -  Live at Crowbar Arcade, Binghamton, NY, March 19, 2026  -  no label

13:30:32  -  3:14  -  Meryn Caddell  -  The Sweater  -  Angel Food For Thought  -  Sire

13:33:38  -  12:01  -  The Farm Band  -  Let It Ride  -  Farm Band  -  Riverman

13:46:03  -  3:16  -  The Nice  -  Flower King Of Flies  -  Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack  -  Immediate

13:49:12  -  6:01  -  Ritsu Katsumata  -  Dub  -  Ritsu Jungle  -  Yikes Records

13:55:26  -  2:34  -  Whistler Chaucer Detroit & Greenhill  -  Ready To Move (excerpt)  -  The Unwritten Works Of Geoffrey, Etc.  -  Fallout

14:10:00  -  6:14  -  John Cage  -  Cartridge Music (excerpt)  -  John Cage, Christian Wolff  -  Time Records

14:04:49  -  15:53  -  Terry Riley  -  Untitled Organ  -  Reed Streams  -  Elision Fields

14:16:40  -  9:23  -  Boreal Path  -  Life in Cataracts Poured Down  -  Boreal Covenant  -  https://borealpath.bandcamp.com/album/boreal-covenant

14:26:48  -  8:10  -  Streiber  -  Trigger  -  Contemporary Futilities  -  Unseen Force

14:34:12  -  5:22  -  Avi C. Engel  -  Glowworm Dance  -  A Little Light  -  https://aviengel.bandcamp.com/album/a-little-light

14:38:41  -  5:27  -  SUSS  -  Drift  -  Promise  -  https://suss.bandcamp.com/album/promise

14:43:41  -  6:25  -  Finite Element  -  Bacchanalia  -  Life Forces  -  https://finiteelement.bandcamp.com/album/life-forces

14:50:04  -  6:53  -  Laurie Anderson  -  Let X equal X-It Tango  -  Big Science  -  WB

Bartlemania for the week of March 28, 2026

The Doctor's social media links:

Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@bartlemania

Bluesky: https://bartlemania.bsky.social

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bartlemania/

WRFI is archiving my programs for two weeks after they air on Saturdays, 1-3PM.

Go to: https://spinitron.com/WRFI/calendar, and click on "Bartlemania" (Saturday at 1PM, natch). You will be redirected to a page with a media player and a playlist.

WBDY-LP is also allowing its Patreon subscribers to hear anything in its online archive, including previous episodes of Bartlemania. 

13:00:00  -  3:08  -  Silicon Teens  -  Chip 'N' Roll  -  Music For Parties  -  Mute

13:03:05  -  3:09  -  Roky Erickson & The Spades  -  We Sell Soul  -  Epitaph For A Legend  -  Charly

13:06:37  -  3:58  -  Robyn Hitchcock  -  Ye Sleeping Knights of Jesus  -  I Often Dream Of Trains  -  Rhino

13:10:34  -  2:31  -  The Cramps  -  Miniskirt Blues  -  Look Mom, No Head  -  Restless

13:13:02  -  2:47  -  King Missile  -  She Didn't Want  -  Mystical Sh*t  -  Shimmy Disc

13:15:47  -  1:39  -  Black Flag  -  No Values  -  The First Four Years  -  SST

13:17:55  -  8:02  -  Boris & Merzbow  -  Flower, Sun, Rain  -  Within Thee Church of the Overlords  -  Southern Lord

13:25:54  -  3:52  -  The Red Crayola  -  War Sucks  -  The Parable of Arable Land  -  International Artists

13:30:06  -  1:00  -  Matmos  -   Everything Has To Be Perfect Or I Hate Myself  -  Miniatures 2020  -  ReR Megacorp

13:31:07  -  0:49  -  R Stevie Moore  -  Knickerbocker Salute Tactic  -  Miniatures 2020  -  ReR Megacorp

13:31:55  -  1:00  -  Henry Kaiser  -  I'm The Guy Who Found The Lost Chord  -  Miniatures 2020  -  ReR Megacorp

13:32:54  -  5:35  -  Holger Czukay  -  Ride A Radio Wave  -  Radio Wave Surfer  -  Virgin

13:39:05  -  12:04  -  Negativland  -  Attractive Target, Newcastle  -  Aux Brains  -  Seeland

13:51:30  -  6:30  -  Streiber  -  Lubbock (excerpt)  -  Contemporary Futilities  -  Unseen Force

14:00:18  -  19:24  -  Caleb Crittenden (Syracuse, NY)  -  Live Performance  -  Room K, Ithaca, NY, March 10, 2026  -  no label

14:19:58  -  9:29  -  Flex Unger (Owego, NY)  -  Live Performance  -  Room K, Ithaca, NY, March 10, 2026  -  no label

14:29:51  -  20:17  -  Kompyootur Muhsheen, Teenage Algorithm (Ithaca, NY)  -  Live Performance  -  Room K, Ithaca, NY, March 10, 2026  -  no label

14:50:37  -  7:23  -  NEU  -  Negativland (excerpt)  -  Neu (first album)  -  https://neumusic.bandcamp.com/album/neu

Bartlemania, for the week of March 21, 2026

The Doctor's social media links:

Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@bartlemania

Bluesky: https://bartlemania.bsky.social

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bartlemania/

WRFI is archiving my programs for two weeks after they air on Saturdays, 1-3PM.

Go to: https://spinitron.com/WRFI/calendar, and click on "Bartlemania" (Saturday at 1PM, natch). You will be redirected to a page with a media player and a playlist.

WBDY-LP is also allowing its Patreon subscribers to hear anything in its online archive, including previous episodes of Bartlemania. 

13:00:00  -  3:07  -  Silicon Teens  -  Chip 'N' Roll  -  Music For Parties  -  Mute

13:03:05  -  2:24  -  Jungle Fire  -  Comencemos (let's start)  -  Colemine Singles-20 - 45rpm  -  Colemine

13:05:54  -  2:42  -  Bush Tetras  -  You Can't Be Funky  -  Boom In The Night  -  ROIR

13:08:35  -  4:53  -  Incredible Bongo Band  -  Apache  -  Bongo Rock  -  Strut

13:13:23  -  9:39  -  Isaac Hayes  -  Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquadalymistic  -  Hot Buttered Soul  -  Stax

13:23:31  -  10:00  -  Herbie Mann  -  Push Push  -  Push Push  -  Embryo

13:33:28  -  4:41  -  Kraftwerk  -  Elektro Kardiogramm  -  Minimum-Maximum  -  Astralwerks

13:38:17  -  3:38  -  Tetes Noires  -  Playground Ditties/Way Of The World  -  First EP, 1983  -  Rapunzel Records

13:41:49  -  4:26  -  Camper Van Beethoven  -  Pictures of Matchstick Men  -  Camper Van Beethoven  -  Spin Art

13:46:11  -  2:43  -  Bonzo Dog Band  -  Can Blue Men Sing The Whites?  -  Urban Spaceman  -  One-Way

13:48:52  -  3:11  -  Fairport Convention  -  It's All Right Ma, It's Only Witchcraft  -  Fairport Convention  -  Polydor

13:52:42  -  5:18  -  Jack Bruce  -  HCKHH Blues (excerpt)  -  Things We Like  -  Polydor

14:00:24  -  10:17  -  Blues Control  -  Piece Number 2  -  Pirate House, Ithaca, NY, 2-FEB-2013  -  no label

14:09:23  -  5:51  -  Daniel Carter & Jackie O M*therf***er  -  Untitled 2  -  U-Sound,Vol 1  -  Paralellism 

14:14:40  -  5:24  -  Michael Hurley  -  The Aliens  -  U-Sound Vol 1  -  Paralellism

14:19:37  -  4:25  -  Decaer Pingh  -  Further Adventures of Wink Schmoke & The Family Skank  -  U-Sound, Vol 1  -  Paralellism

14:23:39  -  18:58  -   Sun Spells  -  Improvisation (excerpt)  -  Pirate House, Ithaca, NY, 2-FEB-2013  -  no label

14:42:12  -  8:27  -  Cosmic Jokers  -  Im Reich Der Magier  -  Sci-Fi Party  -  Spalax

14:50:07  -  6:45  -  Philip Glass  -  Knee Play 4  -  Einstein On The Beach (1976)  -  Sony Classical