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Happy Dog Days, Sisters! This summer soundtrack 2026 floats at ya like butterfly wings and hits hard like a train. #CatBradfield #WLRN #SummerMusicCountdown Dolly Parton - Coat of Many Colors Hole - Miss World Ani DiFranco - Atom L7 - Can I Run Suzi Quatro - The Wild One Heart - Barracuda 4 Non Blondes - What's Up The Stray Dags - Lets Have A Party Shilpa Ray - Venus Shaver Ashnikko - Invitation Bitch and Animal - Pussy Manifesto Bitch - You're The Man Courtney Barnett - Dead Fox Pink - Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken

MADISON - August 11, 2026. Tune in to this 4th episode of WLRN’s Summer Music Countdown for your sisterhood soundtrack that will carry you though the dog days of summer! #WLRN #SummerMusicCountdown Playlist for Today's Show: Building a Mystery Sarah McLachlan Sisters in the Struggle Lesbians on Ecstasy Restore Me Diane Patterson Jezebel Thistle Pettersen And Saints Sleigh Bells Jet Fuel Can't Melt Steel Beams Camp Cope Swinger in the Trees Dead Horses (Sarah Vos) Vagina Anthem Hungry Hearts The Collector Missy Higgins The Returner Alison Russell A War With Time Brandi Carlile

August 6, 2026 - Welcome back, sisters, to another WLRN music hour. This month, as promised, the focus will be on Lammas, the holy day of my female-centered earth-based spiritual tradition on The Wheel of the Year whose Old European roots stretch back into Neolithic times. Here around my home on HERground in the South Eastern mountains of the US, crepe myrtles have reached their long anticipated peak beauty, fields of sunflowers pull me into a swerve as I pass, basil and thyme has gone to flower and the agastache has gone to seed for the goldfinches. I can’t forget to mention the urgent caution of the season around nests of hornets and ground bees ever abundant at this time on The Wheel. And always, watching for the bears who mark the time with their growing cubs and small clans ambling purposefully towards the wild cherry trees or dangling hornet nests to gorge. The light of the days is lessening, though it’s subtle. Lammas is a subtle holy day, but while subtle, her energy is profoundly beautiful to dance with. I will read some again from Dr. Kim Duckett’s important book The Wheel of the Year as an Earth-based Spiritual Psychology for Women as well as from some other sources of inspiration of this season of Lammas to include Judy Grahn and Anya Robyak. I hope you enjoy both the information and the creative playlist I’ve crafted this month of music to include a variety of musicians from around the world. Since I live in the Northern Femisphere, I am experiencing the late summer energy while my sisters on the flip side are in late winter energy of a very different earthscape. Interestingly enough, both the holy day of Lammas and the holy day of Imbolc (which is directly across The Wheel, six months for us) are both times of fragility and leaning into one's community/tribe. These two themes will run through my play list along with themes of celebration, gratitude and remembering our phenomenal spiritual fortitude as women, born under Patriarchy. Thanks again for tuning back in! We’ll begin with music by Ayla Nereo called Wheel of Time.

MADISON - August 6, 2026. Edition 124 begins with a greeting from Ann, WLRN's sound engineer and producer who recently attended NOW's national conference in Arlington, Virginia. Ann provides us with her commentary later on in the program after Thistle interviews Peggy Patty, NOW member since 1977 and rarin' to go when it comes to women's rights! The world news segment is delivered by Cat and the featured song is called Sing, Sing, Sing by Melissa Manchester who performed at this year's NOW conference. in Arlington. Enjoy the show!

MADISON - July 25, 2026 Episode 3 of the WLRN Summer Music Countdown with Cat Bradfield continues on with songs tied for 72nd place. Songs: Possession - Sarah McLachlan At Seventeen - Janis Ian Horses - Patti Smith Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper Awful - Hole Not That Kind - Anastacia Untouchable Face - Ani DiFranco Superwoman - Karyn White I’m Gonna Be An Engineer - Peggy Seeger

This is the second in a series of episodes counting down WLRN's top 100 songs as voted by listeners for the summer of 2026. Thanks to Cat Bradfield for hosting the show!

This is episode 1 of Cat Bradfield's Summer Music Countdown featuring songs voted on by WLRN listeners to celebrate WLRN's ten year anniversary. Thank you, Cat!

DJ PhoeniXX is back! Thanks for tuning into another women’s music hour with Phoenixx! This month’s hour centers women who protect and defend that which is precious to us; that which we have nurtured and sustained, to include our own lives as well as the lives of our sisters, families, animals and the planet. If you tuned into Thistle’s roundtable discussion of the political Lesbian ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMjjif6Rjqo), this music hour will be an enlivening follow up as Phoenixx features music and spoken word about both Lesbians and non-Lesbians who are fierce in their devotion to Female kind in the midst of misogyny and fascism. The energy and existence of The Amazon has an ancient cultural record: some that has been preserved and discovered by archaeologists and archeomythologists like the late Marija Gimbutas; much has been kept alive by Max Dashu’s archival research (www.suppressedhistories.net) while some herstory of Amazon existence has just persisted through stories/fantasies of tribes of ferocious women. Women’s Culture and Spirituality must remember and include The Amazon to be both Radically effective and reflective of our lived experience and realities. The work of Second Wave Radical Lesbian Feminists reignited these fires in the 1970s which have been, in most feminist and spiritual circles, currently watered down with the use of the word feminine to describe women or the divinity of female spiritual power. Typically the fight/warrior/protector roles and ferocity under/in patriarchy have been reserved for men, with the exception of the expectation of mothers for their children. Implicit in that is, of course, girls and women need to be mothers in order to be sanctioned strong. The rest of us... well…you know those particular heinous insults and the prominence of compulsory heterosexuality. Phoenixx has chosen dynamic music to accompany excerpts of a chapter on The Amazon read from The Wheel of the Year as a Spiritual Psychology for Women written by Radical Lesbian Feminist Dr. Kim Duckett. You can find more information about her, her work and how to order her book here: http://www.kimduckett.org/. Enjoy the hour! Stay tuned later this Summer for the top 100 Women’s Music results!

MADISON, July 2nd, 2026. First up is Cat Bradfield with WLRN's world news segment including a story about the recent Supreme Court decision to limit male athletes in women's sports. Happy 4th of July celebrations to all of our listeners. Stay safe this weekend! After the news, enjoy the song "Every Woman Can Be a Lesbian" by Alix Dobkin before hearing Jesika Gonzalez, Julianna Varni, Ann Menasche and Pinwheel Art give their thoughts on why a discussion of political lesbianism is important and what their definitions of the words "lesbian" and "political lesbian" are. In the podcast, you'll hear a 20 minute excerpt from the dynamic hour and a half long discussion recorded and under WLRN's LIVE tabe on our YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMjjif6Rjqo&t=10s. After the round table excerpt, there is a 15 minute clip from Thistle's hour and a half long interview with Angela C. Wild, editor of the book, I Wish I Was a Lesbian. Finally, WLRN Team members Thistle & Jocelyn deliver their opinions and commentary on the topic. Thanks for tuning in to WLRN, your sisters out here in the Femisphere workin' hard to bring sisterhood to all women!

First up, Cat Bradfield greets the listener and delivers WLRN’s world news segment for June 4th, 2026. Next, stay tuned for the song “More Than Friends” by Robin Flower, followed by Cat’s interview with Nicole Mowbray of the Lesbian Action Group (LAG). Founded in 2023 after Posie Parker’s visit to Australia, LAG drew international attention to the importance of women speaking publicly and critically about transgenderism. Finally, we dive into Jocelyn Crawley’s commentary on the vital importance of women-only and lesbian-only spaces — both to protect women from male violence and to co-create a thriving culture of our own outside of patriarchy. Thanks for staying tuned to WLRN! To support our ten-year anniversary, please consider a purchase of merch from our merch page here: https://wlrnmedia.com/merch/