Bartlemania, Week Of September 19th, 2026

On Saturday, October 3, 2026 at 1PM, listeners on WRFI, Ithaca and across the Southern Finger Lakes, and WINO, Watkins Glen, NY will hear a special LIVE edition of Bartlemania, for WRFI/WINO's semi-annual pledge drive. At the controls will be myself, and my faithful sidekick NC, who'll be bringing us Bicentennial Funk!

Listeners on other stations which carry Bartlemania will hear a select archive show that week.

To donate to WRFI/WINO, and to listen online, go to https://WRFI.org.

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  -  0:54  -  Stan Freberg, Sarah Vaughan & Quincy Jones  -  Who Listens to Radio?  -  Tip Of The Freberg  -  Rhino

13:04:20  -  3:45  -  The Microscopic Septet  -  Pack The Ermines, Mary  -  Take The Z Train  -  Koch Jazz

13:08:12  -  4:23  -  Cassandra Wilson  -  Run The Voodoo Down  -  Traveling Miles  -  Blue Note

13:12:33  -  4:56  -  Malo  -  Street Man (1973)  -  Chicano Power  -  Soul Jazz

13:17:59  -  2:37  -  David Bowie  -  Hang Onto Yourself  -  Ziggy Stardust  -  Ryko

13:20:20  -  6:34  -  Bulbous Creation  -  Fever Machine Man  -  You Won't Remember Dying  -  Numero

13:27:00  -  3:38  -  Carl Harvey  -  World Of Confusion  -  Ecstasy Of Mankind  -  Makasound

13:31:00  -  3:24  -  John Prine & The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band  -  Grandpa Was A Carpenter  -  Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Vol 2  -  Universal

13:34:20  -  2:34  -  Roy Acuff  -  Just To Ease My Worried Mind  -  The Essential Roy Acuff  -  Legacy

13:36:52  -  5:05  -  Ned Sublette  -  Feelin' No Pain  -  Cowboy Rumba  -  Palm Pictures

13:42:25  -  4:54  -  Karlee Crow Band  -  Live the Life  -  At The Crow's Nest  -  self-released

13:47:16  -  7:55  -  The Peabody Band  -  Tammy Vermont  -  The Peabody Band Archives  -  Studio N

13:55:40  -  2:20  -  Booker T & The MGs  -  Hang 'em High (excerpt)  -  Rock Instrumental Classics Vol 4  -  Rhino

14:00:30  -  3:40  -  Jen Kutler  -  Caroline Partamian  -  Disembodied  -  https://jenkutler.bandcamp.com/album/disembodied

14:04:02  -  17:56  -  Tangerine Dream  -  Nebulous Dawn  -  Zeit  -  Castle

14:22:20  -  22:55  -  Tetsuya Nakatani  -  Arch, Curve, Span, Circumnavigate  -  Monochrome  -  Tatsuya Nakatani Music

14:45:58  -  5:36  -  Darsombra  -  Black Willow (close to the edge of some desolate s**t)  -  SYZYGY  -  https://darsombra.bandcamp.com/album/syzygy

14:51:47  -  6:13  -  Weasel Walter  -  Half Death (excerpt)  -  Half Death  -  https://weaselwalter.bandcamp.com/album/half-death

Bartlemania, Week Of September 12, 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

13:03:08  -  3:22  -  Kevin Ayers  -  Stranger In Blue Suede Shoes  -  Odd Ditties  -  Harvest

13:06:43  -  3:36  -  Van Duren  -  Tennessee, I'm Trying  -  Idiot Optimism  -  Omnivore

13:10:13  -  3:30  -  Bob Mould  -  See A Little Light  -  Workbook  -  Ryko

13:13:41  -  8:45  -  Frank Zappa  -  Inca Roads  -  One Size Fits All  -  Ryko

13:22:51  -  7:38  -  The Who  -  Amazing Journey-Sparks  -  Live At Leeds  -  MCA

13:30:25  -  6:38  -  Phish  -  Bold As Love  -  Hampton Comes Alive  -  Elektra

13:37:24  -  16:06  -  David Bromberg Band  -  Bullfrog Blues  -  How Late'll You Play Till, Vol 1  -  Fantasy

13:51:45  -  2:52  -  Chrome Cranks  -  The Slider  -  Diabolical Boogie  -  Atavistic

13:56:25  -  2:35  -  They Might Be Giants  -  Get Down, Michael Wilbur remix (excerpt)  -  digital single  -  Idlewild

Hour 2

14:00:27  -  12:23  -  Sun Ra  -  Realm Of Lightning  -  The Solar Myth Approach, Vol 1 & 2  -  Fuel 2000

14:12:40  -  8:35  -  Archimedes Badkar  -  Badidoom  -  Tre  -  MNW

14:21:41  -  16:42  -  Bruce Palmer  -  Alpha - Omega - Apocalypse  -  The Cycle Is Complete  -  Verve Forecast

14:38:34  -  12:22  -  McCoy Tyner  -  Message From The Nile  -  Extensions  -  Blue Note

14:51:16  -  6:44  -  Oregon  -  Mi Chinita (excerpt)  -  Distant Hills  -  Vanguard

Bartlemania, Week Of September 5, 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  -  3:09  -  Silicon Teens  -  Chip 'N' Roll  -  Music For Parties  -  Mute

13:03:08  -  3:18  -  Black Magic  -  Where Love Is  -  Black Magic  -  Atco

13:06:42  -  3:41  -  Butthole Surfers  -  Bong Song  -  Widowermaker EP  -  Touch and Go

13:10:14  -  2:50  -  New York Rock & Roll Ensemble  -  Dedication  -  Reflections  -  Atco

13:13:02  -  4:30  -  Paradise Cinema (Jack Wyllie)  -  Paradise Cinema  -  Paradise Cinema  -  Gondwana Records

13:17:57  -  3:30  -  Reverend Gary Davis  -  Lord, I Feel Just Like Goin' On  -  Harlem Street Singer (1960-61)  -  Soul Jam Records

13:21:26  -  6:31  -  Dolly Parton  -  Stairway To Heaven  -  Halos & Horns  -  Sugar Hill

13:27:49  -  3:32  -  Ed Sanders  -  Yodeling Robot  -  Beer Cans On The Moon  -  Reprise

13:31:40  -  5:19  -  Congo Ashanti Roy And Singers & Players  -  African Blood  -  On-U Sound Disco Plates Part 1 (1982-83)  -  On-U Sound

13:37:04  -  4:21  -  Patrick Andy  -  Love Of A Woman Dub  -  Living In Mount Zion (Vivian Jackson Presents) (1977/2022)  -  Pressure Sounds

13:41:24  -  6:19  -  Matumbi  -  Nothing At All (12 Inch Dub Version)  -  Empire Road - The Best Of Matumbi  -  Front Line

13:47:39  -  4:44  -  The Horse Flies  -  Hush Little Baby  -  Human Fly  -  Rounder

13:52:11  -  2:51  -  The Kleptones  -  Cherry & The Dubmaster  -  Shirts and Gurgles  -  https://kleptones.bandcamp.com/album/shirts-gurgles

13:55:53  -  2:07  -  Willi Williams  -  Unification (excerpt)  -  Unification - From Channel One To King Tubby's  -  Shanachie

Hour 2

14:00:17  -  36:38  -  Can  -  Queueing Down  -  Olympia Theatre, Paris, France 1973-05-12  -  https://canofficial.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-paris-1973

14:37:16  -  12:54  -  Acid Mothers Temple  -  La Le Lo  -  Spaceland, LA, CA, June 6, 2004  -  https://archive.org/details/AMT2004-06-06

14:50:36  -  7:05  -  The Nice  -  3rd Movement, Pathetique  -  Keith Emerson & The Nice Vol. 1  -  Curcio

Bartlemania, August 29, 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  -  3:14  -  Silicon Teens  -  Chip 'n' Roll  -  Music For Parties  -  Sire

13:03:14  -  3:34  -  Bob Dylan  -  Let Me Die In My Footsteps  -  The Bootleg Series Volume 1  -  Columbia

13:07:06  -  4:36  -  Nirvana  -  In Bloom  -  Live At Reading  -  DGC

13:11:36  -  3:55  -  R. STEVIE MOORE  -  Hearing Aid  -  Pow Wow  -  rsteviemoore.bandcamp.com

13:15:22  -  3:23  -  Joy Division  -  Love Will Tear Us Apart  -  The Complete BBC Recordings  -  Fuel 2000

13:19:08  -  15:09  -  Kraan  -  Nom Nom  -  Kraan Live  -  EMI Electrola

13:34:36  -  14:55  -  Faust  -  Default Mood  -  Daumenbruch (Broken Thumb)  -  https://faust-berlin.bandcamp.com/album/daumenbruch

13:49:39  -  5:18  -  Front 242  -  Welcome To Paradise  -  Headhunter EP  -  Wax Trax

13:54:53  -  3:07  -  Eugene Chadbourne  -  Drive On  -  Head Of Books  -  eugenechadbourne.com

14:00:34  -  13:00  -  Robert Fripp & Brian Eno  -  The Heavenly Music Corporation  -  No Pussyfoting  -  EG

14:13:40  -  24:50  -  Finite Element  -  Garden of Eels Pt 3 live  -  not on album  -  no label

14:46:48  -  11:12  -  Diga Rhythm Band  -  Tal Mala  -  Diga  -  Ryko

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