Bartlemania, Week Of August 22, 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. 

Hour 1

13:00:00  -  3:10  -  Silicon Teens  -  Chip 'N' Roll  -  Music For Parties  -  Mute

13:03:00  -  2:20  -  Richard Hell & The Voidoids  -  The Kid With The Replaceable Head (Radar Records single version)  -  Destiny Street Complete  -  Omnivore

13:05:54  -  4:21  -  Traffic  -  Rock & Roll Stew  -  The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys  -  Island

13:10:03  -  3:27  -  Dave Edmunds  -  Girls Talk  -  Swan Songs - The Singles 1976-1981  -  Omnivore

13:13:24  -  4:09  -  Camper Van Beethoven  -  Pictures of Matchstick Men  -  Key Lime Pie  -  Virgin

13:18:06  -  3:52  -  Elvis Costello  -  Waiting For The End of the World  -  Live At The El Mocambo, Toronto, Canada, March 4, 1978  -  Ryko

13:21:57  -  9:09  -  Gary Clail & On-U Sound System Privatise The Air, Parts 1 & 2  -  End Of The Century Party  -  On-U Sound

13:31:04  -  4:41  -  The Kleptones  -  Madonna Is A Breeder  -  Shirts & Gurgles  -  https://kleptones.bandcamp.com/album/shirts-gurgles

13:35:25  -  5:03  -  Wayfarers  -  Matty Groves  -  Before The Day Is Done (The Story Of Folk Heritage Records 1968-75)  -  Grapefruit Records

13:41:25  -  3:31  -  Proper Lovers  -  Song about New York  -  Room K, Ithaca, NY, July 23, 2026 (Electro-Zone Show)  -  no label

13:45:30  -  7:38  -  Doug Carn  -  Moon Child  -  Infant Eyes  -  Black Jazz

13:53:07  -  4:57  -  Som Nosso De Cada Dia (Our Daily Sound)  -  Massavilha (excerpt)  -  Snegs  -  Moshimoshi Produtora

Hour 2

14:01:45  -  56:18  -  Various Artists  -  Bartlemania Space Mix 2026A  -  See below for ingredients  

Space Mix Ingredients:

Ustad N Zahiruddin Dagar & F Wasifuddin Dagar  -  Raga Mian Ki Todi  -  Trance 1  -  Ellipsis Arts

Thea Surasu  -  Shambhala  -  Singing Bowls of Shangri-La  -  Halpern

Burning Star Core  -  Inside The Shadow  -  Inside The Shadow  -  Hospital Productions

Nerve Net (Greg Maslin & James Spitznagel)  -  Fire Turns Blue  -  Before Beyond  -  https://plus-ultra.bandcamp.com/album/before-beyond

Drekka  -  An Unearthly Child and a Wishful Fish  -  Europe 2012 Tour EP  -  https://drekka.bandcamp.com/album/europe-2012-tour-ep

Desmadrados Soldados De Ventura  -  Side A (Part 1)  -  Clifton Park, NY Vol. 2  -  https://desmadradossoldadosdeventura.bandcamp.com/album/clifton-park-ny-vol-2

Bartlemania, Week of August 15, 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  -  3:10  -  Silicon Teens  -  Chip 'N' Roll  -  Music For Parties  -  Mute

13:03:05  -  3:13  -  Van Duren  -  Chemical Fire  -  Are You Serious?  -  Omnivore

13:06:10  -  1:41  -  Morphine  -  My Brain  -  Bootleg Detroit  -  Ryko

13:08:15  -  3:06  -  Big Star  -  My Life Is Right  -  #1 Record  -  Ardent

13:11:13  -  4:42  -  Jeff Beck (w-Rod Stewart)  -  Morning Dew  -  Truth  -  Epic

13:15:45  -  7:59  -  Grateful Dead  -  Cold Rain And Snow  -  Harpur College, Binghamton, NY, May 2, 1970  -  no label

13:24:10  -  4:44  -  Lord Rhaburn  -  Disco Connection (1976)  -  Cult Cargo  -  Numero

13:28:56  -  3:46  -  Roy Ayers Ubiquity  -  Hey, Uh, What You Say Come On  -  Everybody Loves The Sunshine  -  Polydor

13:32:32  -  2:54  -  Soul Creations  -  Funky Jive Part II  -  Cult Cargo  -  Numero

13:35:40  -  5:35  -  TR-I (Todd Rundgren)  -  Fascist Christ  -  No World Order  -  Forward

13:41:23  -  3:21  -  Damn Sam The Miracle Man & The Soul Congregation  -  LA 26000  -  Damn Sam The Miracle Man & The Soul Congregation  -  Tay-Ster

13:44:43  -  2:50  -  Funkadelic  -  Can You Get To That?  -  Maggot Brain  -  Westbound

13:48:02  -  8:35  -  Parliament  -  Bop Gun (Endangered Species)  -  Funkentelechy vs The Placebo Syndrome  -  Casablanca

13:56:20  -  1:33  -  Omnivore  -  Gnarwarblers  -  Rounds  -  bandcamp

14:00:29  -  21:08  -  Finite Element (Richard Kennicutt)  -  Garden of Eels Parts 1&2  -  Live at The Downstairs, Ithaca, NY, March 17, 2022

14:22:01  -  20:27  -  Tangerine Dream  -  Atem  -  Atem  -  Castle

14:42:39  -  15:21  -  Ash Ra Tempel  -  Freak 'n' Roll (excerpt)  -  Join Inn  -  Spalax

Bartlemania, Week Of August 8, 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  -  3:10  -  Silicon Teens  -  Chip 'N' Roll  -  Music For Parties  -  Mute

13:03:07  -  2:46  -  Big Star September Gurls  -  Number One Record  -  Ardent

13:6:06  -  2:39  -  Eugene Chadbourne  -  Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die  -  Corpses Of Foreign War  -  Fundamental

13:08:45  -  3:17  -  Hoof & Mouth Sinfonia-Jeffrey Davidson  -  Non-Alignment Pact  -  Mad Cow Music  -  WFMU.org

13:12:01  -  6:00  -  King Crimson  -  Get Thy Bearings (BBC SESSION)  -  Epitaph  -  DGM

13:16:33  -  1:32  -  The Who  -  Batman  -  A Quick One (expanded edition)  -  Geffen

13:20:05  -  4:18  -  The Who  -  Mary (Alternative Mix, Lifehouse Demo 2022)  -  Lifehouse  -  Geffen

13:24:20  -  5:39  -  The Who  -  Song Is Over (Original Lifehouse Demo 2022)  -  Lifehouse  -  Geffen  -  

13:30:19  -  4:06  -  Toots & The Maytals (with Bootsy Collins)  -  Funky Kingston  -  True Love  -  V2 Records

13:34:13  -  3:24  -  Paul Simon (w/Brian Eno)  -  Outrageous  -  Surprise  -  WB

13:37:31  -  2:40  -  R Stevie Moore  -  Cool Daddio  -  Delicate Tension  -  https://rsteviemoore.bandcamp.com

13:40:41  -  3:03  -  Young Marble Giants  -  Ode to Booker T  -  Colossal Youth (deluxe ed)  -  Domino

13:43:42  -  3:30  -  XTC  -  Real By Reel  -  Cuckoo's Nest, Costa Mesa, CA Feb 20, 1980  -  no label

13:47:12  -  3:33  -  Procol Harum  -  Salad Days Are Here Again  -  Procol Harum  -  Salvo

13:51:11  -  4:53  -  Incredible Bongo Band  -  Apache  -  Bongo Rock  -  Strut

13:56:02  -  1:45  -  The Arrows  -  Comanche  -  Apache '65  -  Tower

14:00:41  -  9:51  -  David Hykes & The Harmonic Choir  -  Unity Meditation Four  -  Harmonic Meditations  -  Sounds True

14:08:52  -  5:25  -  Robert Fripp & Brian Eno  -  Wind on Water  -  Evening Star  -  EG

14:13:41  -  5:03  -  Solar Seas  -  Nautical Mile  -  Kraken  -  https://solarseasswc.bandcamp.com/album/kraken

14:17:16  -  36:44  -  Remst8  -  Buoy  -  Coalescence  -  https://remst8.bandcamp.com/

14:54:30  -  3:30  -  Ravi Shankar  -  Tala Farodast (excerpt)  -  Raga Tala  -  Polydor

Bartlemania - Week Of August 1, 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. 

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

13:03:08  -  2:42  -  Little Richard  -  The Hokey-Pokey  -  Shake It All About  -  Disney

13:06:13  -  8:38  -  The Who  -  Pure & Easy  -  Lifehouse (Who's Next)  -  MCA

13:14:43  -  4:05  -  Orange Alabaster Mushroom  -  Another Place  -  The Psychedelic Bedroom EP (1996)  -  Perfect Pop

13:19:18  -  7:07  -  Mountain Bus  -  Sundance  -  Sundance  -  Gear Fab

13:26:21  -  3:27  -  The Beatles  -  Fixing A Hole (Take 3)  -  Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Super Deluxe Ed)  -  Apple

13:30:18  -  19:17  -  The Bevis Frond  -  Tangerine Infringement Beak  -  Triptych (1988)  -  bevisfrond.bandcamp.com

13:50:07  -  7:43  -  Red Crayola  -  Pink Stainless Tail  -  Parable of Arable Land  -  International Artists

14:00:24  -  17:23  -  Jaco Pastorius & Word Of Mouth  -  Mr. Phone Bone  -  Montreal July 8, 1982  -  no label

14:18:02  -  2:40  -  Philip Glass  -  Etoile Polaire (North Star)  -  North Star (1977) Virgin

14:20:37  -  9:25  -  Keir Neuringer  -  The Dogwood Circle (round and round, round and round)  -   Ceremonies Out of The Air  -  keirneuringer.com

14:30:40  -  16:51  -  Jenn Taiga  -  Penetrate The Barbican  -  Siege  -  bandcamp

14:48:12  -  9:35  -  Drekka  -  The Water of Life (Unbeknownst to the Houses)  -  The Water of Life  -  drekka.bandcamp.com

BARTLEMANIA!, Week of July 25, 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  -  1:25  -  Firesign Theater  -  Station Break (excerpt)  -  Shoes For Industry  -  Columbia

13:04:46  -  4:04  -  Van Duren  -  Make A Scene  -  Idiot Optimism  -  Omnivore

13:08:44  -  4:06  -  Chrome Cranks  -  Street Waves  -  Diabolical Boogie  -  Atavistic

13:12:48  -  4:15  -  Bixo Da Seda  -  Venus  -  Bixo Da Seda (silkworm)  -  Warner Music Brazil

13:17:33  -  5:57  -  Frank Zappa  -  San Ber'Dino  -  One Size Fits All  -  Ryko

13:22:29  -  5:05  -  Fat Boy Slim  -  Build It Up, Tear It Down  -  You've Come A Long Way Baby  -  Astralwerks

13:28:30  -  10:44  -  Sounds Of Liberation  -  New Horizon (Back Streets Of Heaven)  -  Unreleased (1973/2018)  -  Dogtown Records

13:39:37  -  14:45  -  Derek & The Dominoes  -  Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad  -  Live at the Fillmore  -  Polydor

13:54:43  -  3:17  -  Brian Auger's Oblivion Express  -  Spice Island (excerpt)  -  Happiness Heartaches  -  Wounded Bird

14:00:30  -  12:23  -  Sun Ra  -  Realm Of Lightning  -  The Solar Myth Approach Vol 1 & 2  -  Fuel 2000

14:12:45  -  8:08  -  Water Is The Sun (Drekka)  -  Appellation Of Paths Unchosen  -  Water Is The Sun  -  https://wateristhesun.bandcamp.com/

14:20:42  -  14:32  -  Phil Yost  -  Big Sun River August Noon Raft Midstream Slowly Spinning  -  Touchwood's Dream  -  North Star

14:35:55  -  22:05  -  Laraaji (Edward Larry Gordon)  -  Bethlehem (excerpt)  -  Segue to Infinity  -  Numero

Bartlemania, Week Of July 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  -  3:10  -  Silicon Teens  -  Chip 'N' Roll  -  Music For Parties  -  Mute

13:03:05  -  2:57  -  Velvet Underground  -  We're Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together  -  Another View  -  Verve

13:06:17  -  3:19  -  Big Star  -  When My Baby's Beside Me  -  Number One Record  -  Ardent

13:09:35  -  2:17  -  United States of America  -  Coming Down  -  United States of America  -  Sundazed

13:12:12  -  1:51  -  They Might Be Giants  -  Twisting  -  Flood  -  Elektra

13:14:04  -  5:53  -  Fat Boy Slim  -  Right Here, Right Now  -  You've Come A Long Way Baby  -  Skint

13:20:25  -  2:55  -  Gene Pitney  -  Town Without Pity  -  Gene Pitney Greatest Hits  -  Point

13:23:10  -  5:27  -  Solomon Burke  -  None Of Us Are Free  -  Don't Give Up On Me  -  Fat Possum

13:28:35  -  3:12  -  Jackie Lomax  -  New Day  -  Is This What You Want  -  Apple

13:32:13  -  2:50  -  Bobby Womack  -  It's All Over Now (w-Bill Withers)  -  Very Best of Bobby Womack  -  Neon

13:34:59  -  5:05  -  Grateful Dead  -  Cassidy  -  Civic Center Arena, Springfield, MA Jan 15, 1979  -  no label

13:40:00  -  4:54  -  Culture  -  Legalization  -  Janice's Party, Witchcraft Road, Bakersfield, VT July 28, 2000  -  no label

13:45:27  -  7:08  -  Leonard Cohen  -  Democracy (Live at the O2 Arena, London)  -  Live In London  -  Columbia

13:52:54  -  5:06  -  George Harrison  -  Out Of The Blue (2020 remaster) (excerpt)  -  All Things Must Pass  -  Apple

14:00:20  -  7:56  -  Bitchin Bajas  -  Space Is The Place  -  Switched-On Ra  -  https://bitchinbajas.bandcamp.com/album/switched-on-ra

14:08:13  -  6:48  -  Bubba Crumrine  -  Chosen  -  Center & Blur  -  https://orbtapes.bandcamp.com/album/center-blur

14:14:55  -  4:13  -  Einsturzende Neubauten  -  Schwarz (Black)  -  Strategies Against Architecture 80-83  -  Mute

14:19:05  -  8:42  -  Os Mutantes  -  Tudo Foi Feito Pelo Sol (Everything Was Made by the Sun)  -  Tudo Foi Feito Pelo Sol  -  Gala (Brazil)

14:29:11  -  24:23  -  Conrad Schnitzler  -  Red Dream  -  Rot (Red)  -  https://conradschnitzler.bandcamp.com/album/rot

14:53:06  -  4:54  -  Darsombra  -  Nymphaea (S�ance Remix by Blood Fountains)(excerpt)  -  Nymphaea (remixed-reinterpreted)  -   https://darsombra.bandcamp.com/album/nymphaea-remixed-reinterpreted

Bartlemania, week of July 11, 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  -  3:08  -  Silicon Teens  -  Chip 'N' Roll  -  Music For Parties  -  Mute

13:03:06  -  2:55  -  BRIAN!  -  Through The Teeth  -  digital single  -  https://brianbassoon.bandcamp.com/track/through-the-teeth

13:06:20  -  10:54  -  Femi Kuti  -  Truth Don' Die  -  Concert Of Colors, Chene Park Pavilion, Detroit, July 13, 2001  -  no label

13:17:30  -  9:59  -  Brand X  -  Dance Of The Illegal Aliens  -  The Roxy, West Hollywood, CA, September 21, 1979, Early Show  -  no label

13:27:40  -  9:12  -  Faust  -  Künstliche Intelligenz (Artificial Intelligence)  -  Blickwinkel (curated by Zappi Diermaier)  -  https://faust.bandcamp.com/album/blickwinkel-curated-by-zappi-diermaier

13:37:16  -  16:14  -  Frank Zappa  -  Big Swifty (With T'Mershi Duween)  -  Johanneshovs Isstadion, Stockholm, Sweden May 1, 1988  -  no label

13:53:53  -  4:07  -  Mike Rabon & The Five Americans  -  Ignert Woman (excerpt)  -  Now And Then (1969)  -  Abnak

14:00:24  -  10:15  -  Josh Oxford with E (Electro Zone)  -  Improvisation  -  The Downstairs, Ithaca, NY  -  June 18, 2024  -  no label

14:10:50  -  37:35  -  ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE MELTING PARIASO UFO  -  Pink Lady Lemonade-IN E-Bow solo-Pink Lady Lemonade (cut)  -  Spaceland, Los Angeles, June 6, 2004  -  no label

14:48:53  -  7:51  -  Desmadrados Soldados De Ventura  -  Luvia Radioactiva  -  The Grand Celestial Purge  -  https://desmadradossoldadosdeventura.bandcamp.com/album/the-grand-celestial-purge

14:56:40  -  1:20  -  Nurse With Wound  -  Exploding Head Movie (excerpt)  -  Crumb Duck  -  https://nursewithwound1.bandcamp.com/album/crumb-duck