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Running Redlights

Aug 1, 2025 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Music

With Jen

Bringing some high energy to close out your week, Fridays at 3pm ET. Refresh the playlist page to see updated song info, and please do say hi in the chat! Let's boogie.

I saw a bear

3:00 PM		abriction Drifting Endless Pace Interstates s/r 2023
3:13 PM		Set Break
3:13 PM		The Exbats Riding with Paul Song Machine Goner 2023
3:15 PM		MUNCHO Burying Thoughts N Is This Something? Having Fun 2025
3:19 PM		Bonifrate Corisco, Pt. 1 Corisco OAR 2021
3:22 PM		Rye Coalition Wingwalker N Paid In Full - Single Ernest Jenning Record Co. 2025
3:27 PM		God Alone Tsktsktsk ETC Prosthetic Records 2022
3:31 PM		Coyote Men Who Rattled Your Cage? Two Sides Of The Coyote Men Estrus Records 1999
3:33 PM		The Darts Hollywood Drag Hollywood Drag Del-Fi Records 1963
3:38 PM		Set Break
3:38 PM		NODEGA & BODEGA Show The Scaffolding N Rot in Helvetica Chrysalis 2025
3:41 PM		Really Red Let the Night Roar (With Us) Teaching You the Fear: The Complete Collection 1978-1985 Alternative Tentacles 2015
3:44 PM		Just Urbain Guns & Guitars Just Urbain 7" Savage Music 1979
3:46 PM		Split System Chemicals N Chemicals / A L'Etroit - Single V/A Legless Records 2025
3:50 PM		Insinuations (My Head Is Made of) U.S. Muscle Prompt Critical - Single Feel It Records 2018 reissue of single from 1980
3:52 PM		The Gargoyles Infuriate the Frog-Man Hull Adelphi Club 1986 Sheffield Tape Archive 2015
4:00 PM		Set Break
4:00 PM		Michael Beach I'm Gonna Need Ya N Big Black Plume Goner Records 2025
4:04 PM		Tall Dwarfs Attack of the Munchies Unravelled: 1981–2002 Merge Records 2022
4:08 PM		The One Way Streets We All Love Peanut Butter The One Way Streets/Jack the Ripper 7" Sunrise 1967
4:11 PM		Lisasinson Discoteca Perdona Mamá Elefant Records 2021
4:13 PM		Dog Faced Hermans Madame La Mer Hum Of Life Konkurrel 1993
4:18 PM		Porcelain Harmony N Harmony - Single TODO 2025
4:23 PM		Boilermaker Drained Nonsense Not Enough Time To Get Anything Halfway Done Numero Group 2025
4:32 PM		Set Break
4:32 PM		Henry Badowski Swimming With The Fish In The Sea Life Is A Grand... Cherry Red Records 1981
4:37 PM		Cheap Cinema Fade Away Heroes of the Night V/A Reminder Records 2021
4:39 PM		Dom Sensitive R&D Leather Trim Dinosaur City Records 2024
4:43 PM		The Regulars Fridge L N The Regulars I - EP Julia's War Recordings 2025
4:47 PM		Spotlights Absenter single s/r 2020 Jawbox cover
4:53 PM		They Are Gutting a Body of Water american food L N LOTTO ATO 2025
4:58 PM		Set Break
4:58 PM		Shuyler Jansen Scission N DELUJN (vol. 1) - EP Pseudo Sound 2024

Chat is archived.

I just want you to know that we're all counting on you. Good luck.

No pressure at all...

EVERYTHING IS FINE HERE

hello!

Cool open track.

I had to just look this up again, but this powerhouse = one gal in her early 20s. Wild.

Gal!

Roffled Synapse!

Wow!

Hey Matt!

This goes on the list.

here we are! it's August, how is summer halfway gone already?

TIME MARCHES ON FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLLLLLLLSSSSS

we're CHOOGLIN

fri yay! did you vibe with that bear, Jen?

I did! I was behind a car door but still felt his essence. Or hers.

Hello Jen! Brazil rocks!

Greetings. Very un like summer day in Philly area

hello, and they sure do!

bonifrate is bonafide heavy jams!

I forgot how much I enjoyed that record

Rye Coalition! Shellacian

the bass on this is so amazing

No one saw this Rye/Shellac cover coming. Not even the people who saw Rye play WITH Shellac in Princeton.

Also from Brazil: Tripa de Rato. Speedcore/thrash, they only put out on single 10 years ago but it definitely represents

@mike what a delight, my god. and !!!!

nice, @marcus! i'll check it out!

YOU WERE THERE WHEN IT HAPPENED!!!

hahahahhahahaahahaha

"I don't even know what's going on"

haha @Ears that's about it! @Mike thank you for being part of my cerebellum

--Towely

Lol Ears

Coyote Men!

so fun! are we dancing now?

NITRO BURNIN FUNNYCAR

Yes, dancing was happening

Kendrick Lamar writes songs about cars: e.g. the 85-88 Monte Carlo SS

hotrods 'n' hamburgers

Darts... drag... so many puns!

JUST BANANAS

I go to the bro-dega

@ears hahah yes! @bravedelay keep it comin'!

@marcus fascinating. I hear that person is popular, too! Not sure about the Monte Carlo! :)

Jen has gone bananas at the sock hop

sock hop!!

Boppin' at the hop!

Hold Jen's beer she's goin' to the sock hop

Alt Tentacles! Always good to hear cuts from that label

ha! in the pit in a poodle skirt

Lol! Penny loafers in the pit

ya know, a good 1950s pit

do they have carside window service in the pit? Waitresses on rollerskates

they skate VERY QUICKLY

The Runaways were kinda a rejection of/reaction to the lingering 1950s California sock hop culture/surf wholesomeness

That was about the time the Dictators recorded "(I Live for) Cars and Girls".

David S nice!

dj Esoterica just played some Dictators, Butthole Surfers, Cramps, great stuff

ah fun!

We don't need no steenking cowbell!

@david your encyclopedia brain strikes again!

MORE COWBELL

Insinuations 1980! What!!

@matt and just hold on, one more for you in a moment

I'm locked to wprb!

haaaaaaaa The Gargoyles

Gargoyles & Argyle socks

OI ME MATE OVER IN SHEFFIELD WITH THE UNIBROW AND PINT OF RUBY

I'm gonna go to Revilla Records and ask if they have Bro-dega

Bodega and Nodega and Brodega

Deke Dickerson’s old surf/hot rod band, The Untamed Youth, were from Columbia MO. I don’t think any of them had ever seen the beach. They’ve reunited with a new album on Freehold NJ’s Hi-Tide Recordings.

That surf-specializing record label has a store, Boro Records. It’s located at 59 Throckmorton Street, Freehold, NJ.

David nice!!

the beach in their minds

what?! they have a surf-focused store? I love that note on Untamed Youth .

Fu Manchu need to play an in-store

https://hitiderecordings.com https://bororecords.com

https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b27361f13340b9d940e53fd36fa3

Tall Dwarfs!

Flying Nun!!

Tall Dwarfs remind me of Warlock Pinchers for some reason

The label’s owners spin records monthly in Holmdel: https://bell.works/events/music-experience-with-hi-tide-recordings-3

And I see what I missed :-(

Remind me of a lot of great music recommendations I disregarded dut to...overload

Tall Dwarf Warlock Pinchers would be a great band/album/label/song/book name

Hi Jen of experimental red lights of jello chilli fried fish grapes

And hi everyone

@Jen where did you see the bear??

DJ Hi-Tide !

hello, @rob and ossy! I saw the bear in Tahoe City. Cutie. Probably hungry.

@david great tip!

One Way Streets! Nice find Jen!

I always love that it sounds like the tambourine player is wasted.

@DJJen thank you so much for being you ❤️. (I'm on an extended PRB dj appreciation tour of the chat)

Daaaaaaaaa Bears. Mike Ditka.

Cool about the bear!

band name: Wasted Tambourine Player

aw thanks, @ears!!! You made my day!

That's a great band name too, Matt

@rob I was SO excited! Also that I wasn't on foot surprising it.

I don't plan to stop fawning anytime soon!

💕 🎶 🤘🏻

A surprised bear is not a bear I want to be around

Ears is right wprb djs are top notch. Jen didja hear Cap Ahab returned to cover Jon's show? She took a break from hunting the white whale

@rob exactly

@matt I saw she was going to be on! Sorry I missed it! She's the best.

Jen fighting a bear: https://giphy.com/gifs/school-bear-grizzly-cb7t8mVPkiQDK

Jen & Bear: https://giphy.com/gifs/bear-waving-kNGHx5m4QPra0

NJ DJ THROWS BEAR INTO NEXT COUNTY, WITNESSES SAY

Where did they find a green stuntman?

Lol

hahah @matt that's exactly what I look like, how'dya know?

oh chit Dog Faced Hermans! Learned about them around same time as Phleg, NMN, TFUL282, godheadSilo et al

Former co-host of the Big Takeover least likely to play Tall Dwarfs!

Tall Dwarfs? That reminds me: The Dwarves are playing tonight at Racket NYC. A ticket costs $42.87. Forget it!

Dang these dudes sound a lot like Unwound

What!! I saw He Who Cannot Be Named for $7 once

Dog Faced Hermans were selling their entire catalog for a song on Bandcamp, last I checked

@kelly YES! I seriously just looked them up to confirm they're not from 1995

Kelly N yesssss the mighty Unwound

I am happy I've seen The Dwarves play, but for a lot cheaper

@tim hahahaha!

ha same!

The Dwarves' August 4 show at Asbury Park's tiny Wild Air Beerworks sold out months ago.

I do love that Dwarves are selling out bars, though. Hilarious.

when I saw em The Dwarves headlined but only played 20 minutes, was hilarious

Their moms told them years ago that they'd never go anywhere with this music thing

Lol

the dwarves were fantastic as usual last night in philly

AndrewG nice!

and they're playing at john & peter's in a couple of months!

Philly is a good Dwarves city

Boilermaker calls their music Leucadia-core, which is very silly

AndrewG huwhat!! I always hit my head at John & P's

@andrewG awesome

But also totally fits

@kelly I forgive them all the things, but I was always a sucker for both Boilermaker and ridiculous genre names

It's great!

I wuz always a sucker for Boilermakers to my liver's chagrin

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DSUsjmYEDyJf90bop2SbgrMzepbNiJZ0/view?usp=drivesdk

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DWVtGjBzSvuw2KW_vrPOkWfFUZHL1uyY/view?usp=drivesdk

we're yuckin it up in the chat, throwin banana cream pies

chortling, even!

Was Lisasinson inspired by "Bleeding Gums" Murphy or am I thinking of someone else?

@ears did you take those? nice!

Lol

@david I kept thinking Lisa Simpson, and someone confirmed that for me at some point, but I did not fact-check!

Jen for earlier- A black bear on the roaming loose!?!?!

Henry B- yay! Hiya Jen, et alia...

Years back, saw a black bear swimming in a lake somewhere in Moorestown!!!!

Yes, it was a great night @undergroundarts

woooooo, hi, @readie!

Ozzy, Jen cleaned that bear's clock https://media.tenor.com/akeWN0t1x3AAAAAM/incredible-hulk.gif

@ossy yep, it was crossing the street as I was turning the other way

@ears nice!

I ordered the re-issue of Life is a Grand on vinyl MONTHS ago....they apologized - they had to make more? I don't know - should be here by fall..

et alia! Lol RR

wooo!

I need to do that, @readie! it's awesome

Bears are no match for wprb DJs

Right? I love it...can't wait to get it...Bandcamp Friday! I think I may have ordered it on a long ago B.Friday

I ordered a shirt from hardcore act Stuck Pigs I never got, the bahstards

I think this is My Wife is an Angel https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Da25gHiK6U7jXFWLjxDM4tNOfCV4Fbzf/view?usp=drivesdk

misread "Herpes of the Night"

ha! the lesser of the comps

haha

Hey Matt Sabbath (Ozzy Ozzy Ozzy (oi oi oi!)

my check-out chick at the market had silver jewelry & crosses on today and I said RIP Ozzy and we flashed the horns and had a great ole chat...🤘🤘

RR awwwwwwww

Did you see the report shortly before today's program began, that Trump effectively killed PBS?

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/corporation-public-broadcasting-close-after-funding-cut-blow-local-media-2025-08-01/

never forget that it was him AND ALL THE CONGRESSPEOPLE who voted to support that.

it's a disgrace

Sabbath- LOOOOL

one of our 1% billionaires will now offer to buy it

Damn, I didn't realize it would end so soon... damn

Jen probably gave it dumplings with jelly and mustard and mint ice cream!!

Hi Ossy!

Jen - So scary!!!

Hi readie rainbow!

we should charge up the voter registrations by reminding people who killed Sesame Street.

I also saw a pic of the rose gaarden now completely covered with concrete...😤

*garden*

oh what in the hell

Assholes

@Jen- word!

INDEED

keep our music rights close

Extremely grateful for WPRB in these times. Thanks to the amazing DJs and lovely chatters

cheers, @kelly, we are grateful to you too!

@kelly - YES! thank you and to all the WPRB Fam!!

I've been through unsustainable levels of anger and grief for too long. I broke. Freedom is on the other side

cue WAR- They Can't Take Away Our Music....

we are so lucky to have and be able to support stations like WPRB. have a great weekend all and stay safe and sane!

Music and dancing will be part of any revolution I'm joining!

VIVA WPRB! VIVA RUNNING REDLIGHTS!

@Ears - I'm with you!

fanks Jen!! have fun RR

Thank you Jen!

Have a great one, Jen!!! Have fun!

VIVA LA WPRB

We loved what we caught of your show this afternoon, Jen, thank you! Enjoy your time off next week(end)!

tell all your friends that interesting public media still lives! never more important than now.

Jen 1 Bear 0

thanks, @rob and everyone who was hanging out this afternoon - what a blast!

the bear is no match!

thank you for covering for me, @readie!