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Running Redlights

Dec 5, 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.

Hanging around

3:00 PM		Sadness I Left a Message for You N That Lasts Forever V/A s/r 2025
3:11 PM		Set Break
3:11 PM		The Cybermen Hanging Around Cybermen EP Rockaway Records 1978
3:13 PM		Long Tall Shorty Win or Lose Win or Lose 7" Ramkup Records 1981
3:16 PM		The Art Attacks Neutron Bomb I Am A Dalek Albatross Records 1978
3:18 PM		BEEF I Want Beef Beef Feel It Records 2023
3:20 PM		Psychedelic Porn Crumpets Born In the A.D's N Pogo Rodeo What Reality? Records 2025
3:25 PM		Asphalt Orchestra Oh My Golly! Asphalt Orchestra Plays Pixies: Surfer Rosa Cantaloupe Music 2014
3:27 PM		Thee Headcoatees He's Gonna Kill That Girl (Debbie vocal) N Man-Trap Damaged Goods Records 2025
3:32 PM		Team Trust AZ Tea N Treat Box Team Trust 2025
3:32 PM		Set Break
3:37 PM		Wolves Again Ruined Cities Yield No Light Ruined Cities Yield No Light - Single Deserted Outpost Archival Unit 2024
3:38 PM		Thee Oh Sees AA Warm Breeze Thee Oh Sees / Total Control Split Castle Face 2001
3:42 PM		Tin Foil Thin Ties Two Almost Ready Records 2021
3:45 PM		Ugly Sounds I Can't Get Out You Didn't Think We Could Take It ! Vl. 2 - A Tribute To Subsonics V/A Mandinga Records 2021
3:47 PM		Wireheads Beaches with Significant Features Lightning Ears Tenth Court 2017
3:54 PM		PLOSIVS Death Kicks In N YELL AT CLOUD Swami 2025
3:54 PM		Set Break
3:59 PM		Snooper Guard Dog N Worldwide Third Man Records 2025
4:02 PM		Bugout Society Bum Rush At Gray's Papaya Yo! Baby, 'Sup Drunken Shaolin Records 1992
4:04 PM		Dansette Damage N.M.E. The Only Sound / New Musical Express - Single Shoestring Records 1978 reissued by Soul Jazz!
4:06 PM		Voice Imitator Sportcoupe Of How Hits 12XU 2024
4:10 PM		Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou Out of Existence May Our Chambers Be Full - EP Sacred Bones Records 2020
4:15 PM		The Von Trapps So Tired Out N So Tired Out - Single Numero Group 2025
4:21 PM		Set Break
4:21 PM		Maraudeur 58141 N Flaschenträger Feel It Records 2025
4:22 PM		Eyes Eniwetok TAQN Dangerhouse 2009
4:24 PM		Adam and the Ants Whip In My Valise Zerox/Whip In My Valise Do It Records 1979
4:28 PM		Smirk Domestic Dog N Domestic Dog b/w Manhunt In Paradise - Single Industry Standards 2025
4:31 PM		The Urges You're Gonna Find Out Psych Ward Wicked Cool Records 2008
4:33 PM		Money Chicha Toe Jam N Onda Esoterica Vampisoul 2025
4:36 PM		Cool Whip Tears N Flame in My Heart Wharf Cat Records 2025
4:44 PM		This House Man Joke N Soft Rains Will Come Pink Cotton Candy Records 2026
4:44 PM		Set Break
4:48 PM		Tours Language School Language School 7" Tours Rec. 1979
4:51 PM		Rata Negra Ojos Verdes N Hawai Sonido Muchacho 2025
4:53 PM		Onyon Schiefe Bahn N Pale Horses Onyon 2025
4:57 PM		Set Break
4:57 PM		Elephant Hump Space Lobby N Telekomander Dallas Records Croatia 2025

Chat is archived.

So ready for this today. Hi Jen!

Buenas tardes

howdy, pals!

This ought to crack the sky and get some snow going.

outstanding. how's everyone doing today?

this has been a seriously long week!

Compound shit is over the top for sure.

I have been clicked in all day. Happy to have you in my digiteria. I hope you are having a great show.

it didn't think it was a poop race.

Hi Richard!

poop escalations are no good! hi, @richard!

Excellent old stuff for an old audience member..thank you

something for everyone! youngs and olds!

hi jen!

hello, @andrew!

It's a mixed doggy poop bag. :)

I beat holiday music!! winnnnnnnnning!

I'll listen to the rest tomorrow. It never stops but at least I was braced for today's onslaught.

How is that going Jon? Definite sets and stuff?

your ears need some R&R

Lots of decent maudlin stuff so far, fewer rockers uncovered. The Brits remain very good at writing new holiday tunes.

maudlin = underused excellent adjective

My personal BandCamp rec this week is the Stiff Richards - listen to bad Disease first - awesome roots Aussie punk - DeadBoys? kinda sound

@francis, i like it! great song!

Melancholy Christmas starts with yule log logic.

hey jen hey chat, caught your rb and that cardinals at the window track was speaking to me, it was almost lost in the sauce but the robo came through in the clutch

BandCamp was getting some PayPal love here too.

@michael oh that's great that you got it! Always happy to dig up the old playlists if you miss any names.

@kerroffle it's a nice day to shop!

records for everyone in the family

PPC! from Punkstralia

I knew a wrestler name of BEEF

every wrestler should be called beef

I could spend the rest of my days digging gems from the playlists. :)

Oh My Golly! it's RRL!!! howdy everyone!

Jon S I added to yer onslaught with that Weedian best of 2025 comp (100 bands!). But they chose well, those stoners.

Roff yer handle is getting serious!

what's up, @richard!

@matt i love the weedian comps. SO MUCH MUSIC.

oh chit Jen I have a band for ye

Covering all my bases for the holidays Matt.

Jen, "Our Generation" by The Revenge, Loony Records, 1977 (London)

thank you !

LOVE hot tips for music i don't know!

Roff nice! Good command of the language(s)

Sounds familiar??

Jen, I have an old thrasher find who finds late 70s gems in the punk world as do you. Helluva team (unofficial). Between y'all there is no hiding for late 1970s punk.

Carlos R I hearya! I get all my hot tips from wprb. (And occasionally toss them a bone or two.)

HERE JEN GOES AGAIN WITH THE THROWING OF INANIMATE OBJECTS

y'all of the crossover thrashier bent, legendary, legendary NYC band Prong is playing Dingbatz in Clifton, NJ on 1/3/26 !

The Cybermen AND I Am A Dalek? What's next...The Brain of Morbius: Part Three?!

HAHAHAHAH

the most esoteric of theme shows

Throwin' Redlight Jen, they call her (incoming! heads up!)

hahah that'll be a different theme show

All the lanes are open.

whole show inspiring the listening audience to rocket things out the window

all 216 lanes of the mighty 5 in CA are open

Concerned dogs everywhere.

haaaa! defenestration theme

defenestration is one of the best words!

there is/was a dude in NYC who videoed himself just hucking stuff off his balcony into the street (Oreos, household objects)

tying the notes together, i think we've agreed that the first single will be called Maudlin Defenestration

that sounds dangerous!

DOUBLE STUF OREOS INCOMING

The ledges of the Empire State Building have lots of pennies on them.

Roff LOL one is mine

See!

there is a Failure song about pennies off skyscrapers, "Pennies," but apparently the science of it is that most dont rain down as projectiles, but end up as Roff said (science!)

Terminal velocity saved many a life.

https://failureband.bandcamp.com/track/pennies-2 Pretty song. Dark. The Failure boys in a dark place during that time. The heroin.

@Matt - Ooh - I saw Prong back in the 90's Back when they still had Parsons from the Swans playing drums for them

Francis you may have seen the OG Prong incarnation with Tommy, Parsons, and the mysterious Mike Kirkland! Jelly! Nice!

Whoa deep Oh Sees

growly oh sees!

I heard you guys are recommending records. Let me in on that

fr1dayafternoon LOL!

Oh Sees play in L.A. like every month. Always packed too.

insane burnt fuzz tone on TOS

@francis every time they play SF, it seems they're doing a 4-day residency that sells out in 5 minutes.

LOL - I don't think they need to tour - just bounce back & forth between LA and SF. And they always play 2+ hour shows. I;m seeing them for the 3rd time in 3-4 months.

I admire bands that work for their live money. But I also admire that The Dwarves played an unusually short set at 20 minutes and then were just like BYE.

One of my friends took a FIRST DATE to aearly 90's Dwarves show, She did not go on a second date w/ him

HAAAAAA!!

I got ridic drunk with He Who Cannot Be Named. Very nice and surprisingly quiet guy for a guy who wears a luchador mask and jockstrap.

@francis hahahhahha that's bold, but good way to weed out the options, i guess

ONe guy was nude, another in an adult diaper, and Vadge was beating people w/ the mic

@matt haahaha

Francis, you wrote poetry, pure poetry

A member of The Dwarves has an Xmas picture disc out this year.

@Matt - WHOA! awesome!!!

Jon picture discs are rad! Theme show!

https://www.thedwarves.com/node/308

ok, if picture discs continue to exist, i want them to be like tht

The only time I saw The Dwarves the set ended about 20 minutes in (like Matt said) with a member jumping *through* the drum kit.

Jen! Wireheads! Nice cut, selector.

Jon haaaaaaa!! You know a band is truly punk when they have no consideration for the timekeeping instrument of the band.

Drum kits? The way out? It's through, not around.

I love it when some of my fave bands annoy other people

Carlos haaaaaaa!!

If you gotta see one show, then that's not a bad one by the sounds of it.

My Corrosion of Conformity t shirt pissed folks off in the late 1980s. My ex was frightened of Houston hardcore band Black Congress. "Turn it off." @carlos

Flipper comes to mind at top of the list

ah yes, Flipper are not for the noobs LOL.

Carlos, when Flipper played City Gardens in NJ they stole another band's vehicle to sell for heroin money.

my son's first punk show, Flipper. (proud dad)

I just tossed my son right in, like teaching people to swim by tossing them in water.

and did he like it?

(my son is now a Swiftie, in rebellion)

hahaah so maybe there is a "too soon"

@Matt - OMG no!!

LOL!

In the City Gardens book there are a few good stories about the Flipper shows

OK - gotta read it. I only saw 2 shows there. What's it called?

Carlos I bet! Those f'n guys. Great band but it's always drama with heroin people.

the punk beat!

need to see oh sees! love snooper

snoopah!

Plosivs!! Great name

my memories of CG are very scattered. One of them is the gal from Daisy Chainsaw I think taped a few feet up a wall.

Speech pathologists by day, punx by night (or the reverse)

i need to see Snooper! missed them at Gonerfest and was so sad about it.

Jen LOLOLOLOLOL

the punk beat summoned michael gudgeon!

god, this record is good. everyone might go buy it right now.

holy shit , Carlos nobody calls it the City Gardens unless they know

aiffrig LOLOLOLOL

THE GARDENS

extremly funny

If this doesn't get someone I know to join the chat to say hello, I don't know what will...

hahahah @jon I was giving it a whirl

@Francis..no slam dancing, stage diving,spikes..oral history of City Gardens..also a doc along the same lines ..Amy Yates Wuelfing..Steven Dilodovico

aiffrig I used to teach so I tend to use the formal name of things for clarity. I missed a lotta the CG action due to being in CA, sadly!

the CG doc is great! well made

not gettin in to king tut cause seems to bring up bad vibes, woof mooo

I love how Grand Royal (Mike D of Beastie Boys) signed Moistboyz in excitement, then saw them at CG and watched Guy Heller (Dickie Moist) try and fight multiple audience members and Mike D wondered what he'd gotten hisself into

Beat me to it..was going to mention King Tut

the King Tut infamy sounds juicy

I learned just yesterday that I could throw paper towels straight away into the garbage disposal. My life is somehow so different now. It feels so punk, like this song.

Roff haaaaaaaaa!!

Roff have you seen Rolling Thunder? Garbage disposal trauma.

No sir.

People grow, as people, listening to wprb. Just look at Roff. (wells up)

I get a participation award. :)

I'm gonna be That Guy and call Voice Imitator out on stealing the riff from Faith No More's "Caffeine." I only do this out of a soft spot for Jim Pigmask Martin of FNM, fired by fax machine.

but I like what Voice Imitator is doing with the boosted riff

This insanely good music is simply crafted for some of us.

i think more rips of FNM guitar would be food for the world

now that you mention it ;)

well said Jen

Gold Star for Roff. Listener of the Day (balloons drop from ceiling, confetti). Picturing Roff putting paper towels in the garbage disposal listening to wprb.

Thou and ERR!! Flexus Maximus Luthorius loves this one.

DJ's cherry picking all week so we get the best of the best. This is insane radio. And the DJ's do it out of love for music and sharing. I mean, How good is that?

Love Thou! They remind me of the principled and raggedyass fictional punk band in Green Room for some reason. New Orleans! Love that city.

@roffle, and i get to have the most fun of all!

Roff nailed it. How can these DJs work without profit motive? It's unamerican.

✨✨✨✨✨✨

Have always wanted to catch Thou but seems when I go thru Nawlins they are out on tour.

Someones gotta steer the dang thing. :)

I love Trapp music.

Roff haaaaaa!!

Yeah, I just did a dive on Trapps. :)

Gray's Papaya! Is that a nyc hot dog and papaya juice joint?

The Von Trapps!

via the Weedian best of 2025 I learned of the amazeballs band name Necronomicunt.

yes on gray's papaya!

we should all sign onto wprb with "Yo! Baby, 'Sup" as per Bugout Society

hey friends, so re: our joint love of WPRB: Did you know we now have a STORE!???? WillI be purchasing a classic black WPRB MUG? darn tootin. https://shop.wprb.com/products/83884675-wprb-classic-black-mug

(classic black WPRB mug sails across the room, Jen is the main suspect)

What the fuck is this store business?!?

Might have to get those shorts so I can go Full Rollins.

Roff haaaaaaaaa!!

Or rather non-profit store business?!?

Roff: I heard something about a store while I was using my garbage disposal and listening to punk

@jon HAHAHAHA just spit out my drink

@Jon..those tattoos are going to be expensive

You have extraordinary ears Matt.

that Eyes album cover! Lol! Ah the 1970s

all profits help make the radio happen!

Roff Idk how, since I have raging tinnitus thanks to these gotdamn punk bands

Adam & the Ants punk roots! What!!

Jon Lolololololol

Ear protection is a thing.

Jon, do realize that Rollins did a 90 minute workout before a show, then stripped down to nothing but shorts and barefeet, something that inspired Rollins bassist and NJ boy Andrew Weiss to go barefoot, influencing Ween to do the same

Full Rollins, with opener Acoustic Rollins

@Matt..had a conversation a few weeks ago with adult kids about my Tinnitus..told them not to worry all was caused by good bands..any they wear plugs to all their shows..not a thing at our age

@Matt, I NEVER go to a show without ear plugs. Ever!

Do wear them now though

Carlos, good. Ear protection is vital. Better to have tinnitus from good bands, true.

Roff I am good about earplugs. It's just from concerts over time. It started in 1981 in Central Park with Simon & Garfunkel! That was the beginning of my downward spiral into hearing loss.

Just like Feel It, all Sahel Sounds releases are "name your price" today.

http://sahelsounds.bandcamp.com

yesssss!

The Urges! nice, dark classic Flipper-y sound for 2008

My credit card is hot to the touch way too close to Christmas.

The Howling Banshee part of Bay Area Rapid Transit did more damage than bands. That shit hurt

Roff haaaaaaa!! Roff's comin into the chat hot

Burn notice.

Kerrofflesburgsteinski Comin' In Hot Pre-Xmas

Toe jam!!

RAM is expensive Matt. Christmas isn't coming this year.

Haaaaa! RAM! I got dysentery on the Oregon Trail.

https://weedian420.bandcamp.com/track/dhyana-zenjyo Was super happy for Dhyana on the new Weedian comp. Dhyana is a one man buddhist doom from a very crappy place in Louisiana. He quietly makes and releases some of the heaviest shit this side of Godflesh, but with a buddhist spirituality rather than bleak Godflesh outlook.

Jen, from wprb dj to big time music producer: Guys it needs to be faster. [throws mug across room]

shop.wprb.com

https://www.portablepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Walken-Cowbell_DS.jpg Jen as music producer

big time producer!

This House! Good Albini edgy energy

it's so good!!

Is a man joke like a man nod? When Jon S and I see each other we say nothing, just man nod.

This is good stuff. Forgot I already had it bookmarked!

I really think this shop is a good idea. I hope there is retro stuff. I dunno yet. I like the direction. I alys wonder why this was not a thing years ago.

@matt hahahh

@roffle it's a long time coming! the OG classic black is on there!

clicky starred

*always wondered*

This House has that angular approach a la Wax Chattels. Good stuff!

Tours! Another late 70s Jen treasure!

so joe jackson. i love it.

oh chit Joe Jackson! Anthrax! Got the Time!

(american Anthrax, not punk band)

hahahha

Hallo everyone. My eyes are green with envy because I missed this show

joe jackson and anthrax would be a world-class mashup

@rob!

Rob MD good reference!

I'll get archives up soon....

@Matt…do you check out Albini’s closet on Friday?

oh man Carlos I wish! Jon Solomon first told me about Steve's closet. Sounds rad.

I know Solomon had his eye on some Albini stuff

I went to a wrestling show outside Philly on the NJ side recently and it had the exact same energy as a good punk show. So fun. Community-building, cheap, and punk roke.

New stuff every Friday at noon EST..I like the archives we had some music in common..hard to believe he had a subscription to SPIN mag..$25 an issue

https://www.prowrestlingstar.com/ Mt Holly NJ has some punk rock wrasslin energy going on!

Thanks Jen!, broadcast Joy. Have a great week!

SPIN! great mag

I can't believe I missed the chance to buy Steve Albini's Feelies single. That feels like something that should have been set aside for me. To the weekend!

have a nice weekend all! enjoy this band that sounds weirdly like Maserati

Jon give it time, objects find their people.

Jen that was one smoooov punk show! Well played! Smoov as bourbon.

so fun!!!

Maserati!!

Roff have fun with dat garbage disposal!

have a grand weekend. stay warm, all.

Buenas noches