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Running Redlights

Sep 19, 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've had it with ants

3:01 PM		Terry Gross Rough Window single s/r 2020
3:14 PM		Dragnet What It's Worth N Dragnet Reigns! Spoilsport Records 2025
3:14 PM		Set Break
3:17 PM		Green Magnet School 12 Gauge The Declaration Of Techno-Colonial Independence 2x7" V/A Sub Pop 1992
3:19 PM		The Uncalled Four Set Me Straight EP El Goodo 1990
3:21 PM		The Keys I Don't Wanna Cry I Don't Wanna Cry 7" A&M 1981
3:24 PM		Rye Coalition Bullet Train to Vegas N Paid In Full - Single Ernest Jenning Record Co. 2025
3:26 PM		Allfits Anacleto & Gertrudis Seahorse Gran Derby 2013
3:33 PM		Set Break
3:33 PM		The Fisticuffs Bluff Demon Summoner S/T Troubleman Unlimited 1999
3:36 PM		Blurry the Explorer Historia da sua Vida (feat. Carm) Blurry the Explorer Peppermint Olive Records 2021
3:39 PM		Soup Activists Chateau Kids No Occupation: Another Benefit for Mutual Aid in Gaza V/A Dissidents 2024
3:43 PM		The Slugs Never Should Have Told You I'm In Love With You (Again) / Never Should Have Told You Whiplash Records 1980
3:45 PM		Bulldog Breed Paper Man Made in England Rampage Productions 1995
3:49 PM		Part Chimp Hello Bastards I Am Come Rock Action Records 2005
3:52 PM		aküma Torres de Silencio For the Beloved Bones Magnetic Eye Records 2013
4:00 PM		Set Break
4:00 PM		Prolapse Err on the Side of Dead N I Wonder When They're Going to Destroy Your Face Tapete Records 2025
4:06 PM		The Limp Pony Club Can't Stop It! Australian Post-Punk 1978-82 V/A Chapter Music 2001
4:09 PM		The Dancing Cigarettes Poignant 1980-1981: the Gulcher Recordings Gulcher 2002
4:11 PM		Bernard Smith & Jokers Wild Gotta Be a Reason Days of a Quiet Sun V/A Feel It Records 2020
4:14 PM		Todd Briefly Flower Sniffer Demos 3 (Two new songs) - Single Just Step Sideways 2023
4:15 PM		Pylon Driving School Gyrate DB Records 1980
4:23 PM		Set Break
4:23 PM		SPRINTS Beg N All That Is Over Sub Pop Records 2025
4:26 PM		Heavens to Betsy My Red Self 1992 demo Kill Rock Stars 1992
4:30 PM		X I Don't Wanna Go Out X-Aspirations Laneway Music 1980
4:32 PM		Cheveu Lola Langusta Cheveu Born bad records 2008
4:36 PM		White Lung Sister Paradise Domino Recording Co 2016
4:39 PM		Snõõper Guard Dog N Worldwide Third Man Records 2025
4:42 PM		Verbal Assault On On 12" Groove 1989
4:46 PM		Wipers Youth of America Youth of America Zenorecords 1981
4:59 PM		Set Break
4:59 PM		Moving Mountains All Here N Pruning of the Lower Limbs Many Hats Distribution 2025

Chat is archived.

I'm running a new DJ training right now so unlikely to be in the chat. But this will serve as excellent background radiation.

wonderful! i'll make sure we make it spicy!

a waza. Let's do the rock with the punk thing on the radio

I'm HERE FOR IT

background radiation!

the best kind

I love this. Like if the dude from The Darkness did jangle pop

it's really uplifting!

so excited that Rye is back!

hi jen!

Andrew, hi! I am SO jazzed to hear from them again. Hoping it leads to something more...

great show good workday friday mix <3

hey thanks! glad you're here!

Steeeeeeevvvvvvvveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

hope the screaming helps with the Friday work! knock off early!

Jen - We're back in action! I just cruised through the school parking lot to pick up my kids blasting Running Redlights. All of the other parents appreciated it.

@ParrScream welcome back! it's crazytown! take that, parents! they needed it

Ha ha! They definitely needed it! I know they missed it over the summer! :-D

once we get all the kids and parents listening to the fun stuff, the world will be a better place. good job out there.

Exactly! I'm always out there extolling the virtues of Running Redlights.

Thank you for being an ambassador! More WPRB!

Freeform radio will save the world

LOVED that Terry Gross to start us off today!

Def check out their other records - SO satisfying

I have soft opening on vinyl. I LOVE it! I got it after I heard Jon Solomon play them a few years ago. Pandemic time too.

outstanding!

i am just mad that i still haven't managed to see them play live. hoping this is my year!

Oh my gosh... I would love that! Gotta make sure you shout it out if they are touring and come to this area.

ParrScream with the RR parking lot assault. Love it!

Ha ha Matt! It is a Friday tradition during the school year!

I can't help but think of the 1995 Lifetime album when I hear "Hello Bastards".

Oh no, @Jen Redlights, what ant adventures have you had?

speaking of the dissidents, acuttlebutt is they got new music out today.

@parrscream yes on the lifetime connection!!

lol scuttlebutt, not acutlebutt.

ParrScream on Fridays https://media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExbGltanZpbTZxNGF3Zm80ZXBzbW5tdXJ3cGJxZ3RncnM5Z2dnNHV4MiZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/g3EGlx4Nirz7q/giphy.gif

@Rob the ants just will not leave me alone. Rain starts, those little bastards just start creeping in again.

@colin yes, they have a new split LP!

i plan on doing a listen this evening.

This Prolapse record is rapidly becoming an unanticipated fave of the year. Must. Find. Vinyl.

Prolapse!! The CD that I purchased from a place in Connecticut arrived in the mail this afternoon and will likely go into the car very soon!

@mike when you find some vinyl, grab one for me, will you? My detective work has not panned out.

surely SOMEONE is making it?

LOL -Prolapse - what a wonderfully gross name for a band

hahahahah indeed. Reading an article about them (or maybe wikipedia), they said they didn't realize it when they named the band...

Sorry Jen and Mike, I may have purchased the last CD in discogs that shipped from the US

@Francis, some bands should never be Google Image Searched. Prolapse perhaps being chief among them.

ha glad you got it! And i'm interested in vinyl, so all good!

@Jen, roger will do.

@Mike, Prolapse's The Italian Flag is an all-time favorite album. Possibly top 50 or top 25 favorite. This new one is giving The Italian Flag a run for its money

Mike -I'm a surgeon (orthopaedic) in real life, so I unfortunately have seen prolapses of various things during my residency. Lots o' stuff most people never want to see

@Rob, I didn't discover The Italian Flag until the mid naught aughties, but I agree!

Chat is awesome today LOL

@Francis, oh god, yes. I'm sure you're a hit at parties with the stories you must have!

hahahahhahaaha

Dancing Cigarettes! Postpunk deep dive!

THEY DIDN'T REALIZE WHAT A PROLAPSE WAS??!! At one point it was thought that I had mitral valve prolapse (a heart condition; I actually never did but pre-2000s diagnoses ... ) and I thought that it was a *great* band name

I'm here for the Dancing Cigarettes talk and NOT here for The Prolapse Report!

HAHA

come on Jon dont be squeamish

aka "The Cigs"

I'M JUST HERE FOR THE GUZZOLEEN

Been listening in the car, only stopped home for a spell. Really dumb day but at least I found time to get a haircut.

aw, well a little Todd Briefly sounds about perfect for you right now, then

Jon in the chat: https://c.tenor.com/ZTlACsAV0_AAAAAd/tenor.gif

Jon has been shorn with a punk rock 'do

we need to see this 'hawk, Jon

@Mike, I didn't discover The Italian Flag until 1999, when I purchased the CD at a store in a Massachusetts college town b/c a birder friend spoke very highly of it. I hadn't heard a single song from it before purchase. By my third listen I think I was their number 2 fan in the DC area (after my friend)

someone may have to reissue that for us all

Love love loving this set!!

@pethie hi there! that's awesome!! glad you're into it - thanks for tuning in!

oh reallllyyyyy Pethie, I once saw Meat Puppets do two sets at McCabe's Guitar Shoppe

Pylon with the Jersey snarls

I saw Pylon Reenactment Society in Philadelphia a few years ago and the backing band were totally ace ringers. Can't imagine it having been any better than it was.

Todd Briefly might know Epicly Later'd

@Jen, yikes wrt your ants. We had ant invasions over the course of two or three years associated with rainfall ... or in one case several weeks with no rain(!)

@jon I am so pumped to see them. @rob, it's so phenomally irritating. But not rodents, so I should stop crying!

@matt hahahhah

I LOVE what has been released so far off this Sprints album!

Todd Briefly may know Tentatively, A Convenience

oh chit we are ANTHEMING (Jon does pogo in his new haircut)

Also, my wife and I like to think that the band Amps for Christ's name is really Ants for Christ. We are bug nerds, obviously

HA! And the damn AI just finally turned up info on Todd Briefly! It's apparently T.E. Brierley from the band Beige Banquet. Hot damn.

Rob MD nice reference!!

@rob i will think of that and try to laugh as i'm killing these little shits

WELL HOT DAMN AND CHUM DIDDLY

@parrscream SO WITH YOU

Yer listening to Placing Antbaits on WPRB Princeton. All grindcore all the time.

ha!

holy fuck haven't heard this in AGES Jen

olde punks never die they just rust & glitch & sputter

Jen this HTB song reminds me of the excellent and self-deprecating Oakland band Menstrual Psycho (so bad they're good)

@Jen, we had mice for a month or so last fall/winter. We nabbed two with traps (RIP little mousies), but there was still a third. Maybe we played Amps for Christ too much or something because it eventually left on its own

I hadn't either - turned up in a YouTube dump of recordings of WPRB and other radio stations that @jon turned up

@Matt you are so right about olde punks

total early 90s riot grrl classic! Lofi goodness.

great show Jen! happy fri yay!

@rob that's amazing that it left! we had a little family for a short time. My partner went nuts and barricaded every crack in the house with metal webbing. Fingers crossed that solves it forever.

@richard thank you! I'm having a blast today!!

Jen is in form with the yeah yeahs! and the gravely-voxed bands and the scrappy postpunk hooligans with the bass licks LFG LFG LFG

Much of my adult life is fashioned after this X song.

@mike hahah so with you

Mike nicely said

@matt yeah yeah!

@jen, metal you say? Maybe play a metal band to drive them out? Or play Die Spitz or The Italian Flag or

Cheveu !! Nice

Die Spitz! - they're great - like them, Scowl, Nils. fun stuff

@rob i bet the mice hate it!

Indeed @Francis, haven't heard that band name in some time!

Cheveu with the Desert Cruising vibes!

this record kind of rules

some french bands just achieve a sound that is magical, I've noticed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Richard Ferdinand Ricard does some cool smart french postpunk stuff, lots to dig around in

ah nice tip!

...his stuff on RecRec is especially good

we need a show about Lung-named bands

Lungcore

ha!

i could have played Lung today, darnit

@Matt, totally

Snooper song is punk roke!

the eternal punk beat

SO good

Third Man Records! ol' Jack White has a good ear sometimes

while we're getting punky...

Verbal Assault!!

it may not age well, yet it's perfect

1989! That crossover influence when the tribes of thrash and punk came together

nice selection Jen!

🤘🏻

got to get our protests out there

this song will never get old

https://taylor.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/9b06a25a-3789-4e7b-b0bd-f8a495702939/gif Jen in punky DJ mode! Love it

hahah and @andrew, agreed!

I somehow missed the Wipers at the time, am glad to hear them now!

a great add anytime!

I'm obsessed with Bill O'Reilly's mad conniption today. Fuck it we'll do it live. And now to play us out, it's the Wipers with Youth of AMerica.

If only...

@mike i am not sure I even want to know, but YES, WIPERS. Wouldn't that solve some problems.

That might be a better place.

Thanks Jen for the spirited show!

Thanks Jen. I actually was able to listen today, and the Fates done did my ears right.

Thanks for this great show, Jen! I hope you and Mike are able to find the new Prolapse on vinyl in this country. Or, I hope you have a nice shopping trip in Europe ;-)

Not the Kids of America.

Reagan Youth

thanks for the inspiring jams jen!

Have fun at Gonerfest!!!!!!

thank you so much, @rob, and to everyone for being here! That was a blast! Don't turn that dial. :)