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Running Redlights

Jan 2, 2026 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.

Slouching our way into 2026

3:02 PM		Causa Sui The Spot From The Source El Paraiso 2024
3:10 PM		Set Break
3:10 PM		Blake Fleming Dense Jaki The Beat Fantastic s/r 2024
3:12 PM		Eaters Agents in Coffee Shops The Astronomers Office Eaters 2019
3:17 PM		The Young Seniors Senior Stroll Loverly Music: The Singles (1995-1996) V/A Loverly Music 2002
3:21 PM		Weak Signal Chill Fine 12XU 2024
3:25 PM		The Vice Barons Buzz Raritease Nitro! 1997
3:27 PM		Vitamin Pets Ya-Ya-Ya Horse Helpers of the High Country (2015) Vitamin Pets Records 2015
3:31 PM		The Satelliters It's Gotta Be You More of the Satelliters Dionysus Records / Bacchus Archives / Orange Sky / Hell Yeah 2014
3:37 PM		Set Break
3:37 PM		The Cords Fabulist N The Cords Skep Wax Records 2025
3:40 PM		Dragged Up Machine Person Missing Person - Single DU Recs 2024
3:44 PM		The Orchestra (For Now) Hattrick N Plan 76 - EP The Orchestra (For Now) 2025
3:48 PM		Crack Cloud Bastard Basket Pain Olympics Meat Machine 2020
3:53 PM		Prostitute Body Meat N Attempted Martyr Mute 2025
3:57 PM		Zen Guerrilla Wee Wee Hours Invisible Liftee Pad Alternative Tentacles 1997
4:00 PM		Stabscotch Facebook Aliens Prison Jar Radio Angel Recordings 2022
4:09 PM		Set Break
4:09 PM		PLOSIVS Lady For a Day N YELL AT CLOUD Swami 2025
4:12 PM		Gas Huffer Going to Las Vegas (feat. Tom Price, Don Blackstone, Joe Newton & Matt Wright) R Janitors of Tomorrow Empty Records 1991
4:14 PM		Wax Chattels Glue Clot Captured Tracks 2020
4:19 PM		BRICKS Glue Gun Girl A Microphone and a Box of Dirt Merge Records 1992
4:22 PM		Hot Glue Gun I'll Kill You s/t 7" Mud Records 1991
4:26 PM		Fugazi Glue Man 13 Songs Dischord 1989
4:30 PM		Tendinite Inhale/Exhale Tendinite - EP Fuck a Duck 2018
4:37 PM		Set Break
4:37 PM		Vintage Crop Drafted Kibitzer Anti Fade Records 2022
4:39 PM		The Valery Trails Journey's End N Winter Palace The Valery Trails 2025
4:43 PM		Juanita y los Feos Vallecas Nueva Numancia La Vida Es Un Mus Discos 2015
4:45 PM		Cuban Heels Downtown Downtown 7" Housewives Choice 1978
4:46 PM		The Paranoyds Glass I Like It Here - EP Third Man Records 2023
4:50 PM		Bee Bee Sea Stop Elastico N Stanzini Can Be Allright Wild Honey Records 2025
4:57 PM		Set Break
4:57 PM		God Is an Astronaut Reverse World Origins God Is An Astronaut 2013

Chat is archived.

gimme dat cowpunk eggpunk chainpunk punk

haha we're starting on the astro-groovy side

Happy New Year!

Groovy. - Ash Williams

HAHA

touché

how is 2026 going so far?

I got a small wolf loose in da yard captured on da motion cam, the winter hath become black metal

Putting my coat on to go get lunch feels like such a deliberate act listening to this. A coat with a purpose.

Hi!

NICE! outside of the da's, that sounds like a great album name, @matt

RIDE DA HEART O' WINTER bitttcchhheeessssssssssss

@roffle hello!! the soundtrack to the mundane, I'm here for it.

Everyday! lol

Roff in existential power-up mode, a man with purpose in an indifferent universe

Always go somewhere like you belong there. That's the trick.

i like that! maybe that will be my New Year's resolution.

i read something yesterday about making NY resolutions that are just fun or nice vs abstinence and decided I'm in.

ya gotta go thru the saloon swingin doors with swagger

Be the master of all you survey. :) Back in a while.

causa sui sweeeeeeeetttttttt

causa sui sounds like one of those goddamned philosophy concepts

see you, @roffle! kickin down some doors

or a legal maneuver

(flips table)

hahah Latin drives punk rage

jon solomon summoned by this musics

he can hear it in his mind right now

many addresses to call me , it's the computer age

sounds fukn rad, dj!

life in the so-called space age, as per depeche mode

i wonder what depeche mode is doing RIGHT NOW

They are Modal. Crossing the Atlantic, but no fuel. Capex of good hope.

having a black celebration, I assume

@matt hahahahaha @lester capex of good hope!

Whoaa, fastest chat in the East!

the year is kicking off with BLAZING DIALOG

and i will host again tomorrow, friends! Sat noon-3pm!

Sangeet into Redlights huwhat!!

that'll be quite a transition

Sounds like a direct rip of 'The Seed'.

oh?

roots.

interesting!

roots bloody roots

Is it Caterday Awready?

not yet. don't take this last weekend away from me!

HNY JENNNNNNNNNNNNNN !!!

happy new year to you as well!

The encrypted 1, cannot be encrypted as itself. Everything is Cool

cHEEEERsZZZ + TNXXX as always for your SEVERLY grrRRRtt tuneage X!!!

always welcome! thanks for being here today, friends. what a great way to kick off the next quarter century.

that was a great track. HWo are these people? and where do they come from?

as per Heidegger (he cooked that one up in Der Hutte)

I mean, the worldhood of the world (as such)

nmn!

That organ makes it. Top stuff

you know I'm a sucker for organ! in the totally not gross way

horse helpers of the high country !! outta control alliteration

One of these days I am going to forget I had placed some vinyl in the toaster oven and fall off to sleep. Then Jenn, will put on the BeeGees, I will sit up in the bed, and have a fine pastrami sandwich. Cooked.

I appreciate a good organ, be it musical or in a Cronenberg film

Lester Lol!

I support toasted pastrami, but the smell of cooked vinyl...oof

baked analog master tapes, it's a thing

I wonder if Albini ever did that, it's kinda cool.

baked tapes? why?

@Matt..check Albini’s closet, never know what they might be selling there

Ya good organ sets. Love it when you dig into the garagey world.

We are a flawed species. But you cannot turn your back on your own kind.

this is a dirct quote from the great kuchar. Not mine.

Jen: They sometimes have to bake older magnetic tape masters to get the particles to adhere to the tape. Old tapes start to fall apart. Playing them once more to do a remaster / remix would ruin them and cause the particles to stick to the tape heads. So they figured out if they bake the tapes at a certain temp under strict conditions * they can get one more hail mary chance to play the tape and the particles stay put (*not some home oven kitchen baking but a very careful controlled environment)

@dj jen you can bake old master tapes to remaster albums, ween did it with their first album

More organ!!

what Brian D said

@brian oh wow, that's fascinating, i had no idea!

And glad you all dig the garage! we'll get more on.

you all remind me that i really need to take care of all those old tapes in my closet!

tape mold

Ya happens sometimes with certain eras or batches of tape I guess. Not always.

Or you can get master tapes and throw them in the Mississippi, like the replacements allegedly did!!

terrible idea, replacements!

Oh we're not talking your plastic cassettes ha... talking metal canisters of reels etc

Carlos LOL! I heard a rumour it's Dave Pirner yelling at cops on the Mats song Stink?

2-inch tape and suchlike

ah, got it! i had never heard that before, super interesting.

in this temporal reality, all will be lost. Everyone you knew, everything you love, all you hopes and all your dreams. All will be lost.

@Matt..could be..same location and time frame

But do keep a sense of humor.

the ol' Mats lore

jen I am excite about Sangeet into RRL !

dude , where did you get the ludes

In another world there is the "Elmer's Wood Glue" vinyl record treatment. You take old, dirty muddy, dusty, moldy etc records (possibly damaged in floods, moldy basements, kids throwing them in various rivers - see below -etc or what have you)... .and you put the record on an older beater turntable. Apply glue blobs, turn the table and flatten out the blobs smoothly with a popsicle stick or some such... wait.... when glue skin surface dries you peel it off to remove the dirt. Repeat side B

right on! I have a suspicion that Sangeet may be out tomorrow too, but we'll see how it goes

Kinda like those face pore cleansing strips!

@brian HAHAHAHAHAH wow, that's pretty clever!

and i guess more efficient than tape because the glue gets into the grooves. But wouldn't water work?

glue blobs! Jen this talk of glue calls for some Gas Huffer

haha!

I have heard people get good results. Saw it online in various forums about 20-25 years ago. But I believe that practice goes back even further

or a glue huffing punk oufit as such

Mats Sabz: and a side of Scotch-Guard (tm) bongs.

y0y0

Brian D oh chit

ON IT

Brian D, I am a bit of a Molly, seeing Ween with a live rhythm section was weird at first

Crack Cloud !!

My first Ween show was Trenton State WTSR Radiothon 1994. Ratskellar. I believe it was one of the first few shows with a full band (Sim Cain on d and Andrew Weiss on b). Great time. We had no idea that it was such a shift in their live experience. Just a few weeks/months prior it was all about the A-DAT player for them.

what's up, @michael?

WTSR when it was the Alternative , whoops my bad that bumper sticker was from the late 80's

I haven't listened to TSR in many years, but right around then it was terrific.

(90s)

Aka "The College of New Jersey" ... great name change. Really rolls off the tongue. WTSR had a pesky signal. On a good day I could get it in most of my travels through Lower Bucks but... off an on.

not much chillen gaming prbing @jen!

sounds like a perfect day to me

WTSR had a fun weekly show with classic TV show themes. That was a hoot. Miss Claudette reggae Saturday afternoon good stuff too

pouring one out

speaking of the 90s!

A fixture on the Khyber Pass concert list from what I remember. Zen G

friday nite concert report , unbelievable you had to be from the area else u don't know

Holy shitsnacks, Zen Guerrilla send me to hell! Haven't heard this song in a donkey's yonk.

ah! I don't think I ever got to see them. Closest I got = friends' kids' had play dates with those of one of the members.

@mike hi! it's the best!

@Brian….khyber and about 4 doors up the street Upstairs at Nicks..best 50 yards of music in the city for a while

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3it6YmSRtQ

YT delivs.... camcorder 1995:

oh fun! might watch it later if the camcorder doesn't make me barf

thanks!

Also, @Brian, I am contractually obligated to publicly acknowledge any mention of WTSR's Radiothon. Legend has it the actual Pagans (of Cleveland, USA) once played Radiothon, though I suspect anyone who might be able to confirm this is probably dead now, I suspect. I too saw Ween there... and I think that band Stumbling Way, who were from Trenton. I'm sure I saw Wilbo play in any number of bands there, too, but that was before I knew him.

@mike Audio Compression into Discrete Codes:A neural audio codec (e.g., EnCodec from Meta, used in MusicGen; or SoundStream; or Residual Vector Quantization in MusicLM/Jukebox) compresses the raw waveform. It often starts by converting the audio to a spectrogram (a visual representation of frequencies over time). Then, Vector Quantization (VQ) is applied: The continuous features are mapped to the nearest "code" from a learned codebook (like a dictionary of sound snippets). This produces acousti

Haha Get Your ...ass to the Kyber pass

@mike radiothon was live in person, or on the air? that's rad

Wilbo probably knows EVERYTHING

I will again repeat (contractually) that I won a prize during the WTSR Radiothon raffle. Probably at that Ween show. But was not a) the Spinal Tap Colander (yes, colander not calendar! Ha those crafty lads!) and it was not b) the Spinal Tap 8 Track Tape of their then new LP "Break Like the Wind" (a real working 8 track tape, blue plastic iirc and quite a novelty, throwback format even at that time)... but my prize was c) a CD copy of Tom Waits "The Black Rider" not a bad haul

Pretty Cool Brian. Do you remember the Omni Club? Or perhaps London Victory Club?

Carlos, yes Khyber, Nicks was a very nice bracket keys/ bookends of 2nd Shtreet sounds. Lester, no not sure of those mentions

A statistical victory. :)

TSR The Trenton State Radio.

nice!!!

@brian a colander??!

Yes Jen. A Spinal Tap Colander. Lots of laughs from the crowd. They knew how to nail the swag

Brian, this goes way back won albums from tsr had to pick up at college , actually remember meeting Kate P

that is amazing. memorable swag is quite uncommon.

We Strained some things. It was strange.

I will acknowledge, mostly for mike's sake, if he's still here, that I just threw away a can of Flipper canned tuna.

Buckethead has a colander, thus he would be better known as

also this is the request huffing set, and I'll note that this Plosivs song actually mentions huffing which was a TOTAL ACCIDENT

@brian GENIUS

It lined up right along with the Stonehenge measurements error... perhaps someone misheard "colander" for "calendar" on a scratchy transatlantic phone call with different accents hahahah. A joke executed physically in 3D as swag

Love this WTSR history!

Strainerhead. Shredding.

strainerhead hahahhh

If we can request huffing songs , Carbona not glue, comes to mind

ahhhhhhh genius! except i do not think i have it here, looking...

About the glue vinyl cleaning…

precisely. showing we can make sets out of anything. ;)

I never tried that wood glue on a record cleaning trick. Never needed to do so. But it does sound interesting.

@briam Once tokenized, the song becomes a long sequence of tokens (like a "sentence" in music). The AI (usually a Transformer) can:Predict next tokens to continue or vary the song. Condition on text prompts (e.g., "make this rock song into jazz"). Mix sequences: Blend tokens from multiple songs, insert parts, or guide with a melody from one song into the style of another. For mashups: Tokenize Song A and Song B, then generate a new sequence combining elements (e.g., vocals tokens from A over in

I am sorry about al of this. But keep rocking. We shall overcome

This Wax Chattels is definitely a WPRB 2020 playlist memory deal.

i love this machine gun sound

Wax Chattels is intense

Wtsr brutalizing psa's especially the bad effects of cocaine , no i don't have the tapes

just avoid huffing

Ace King Four Seven.

Lester, have you tried to Tolkienize the songs? You can get them to convert into impossibly long multivolume sets in different worlds.

Sorry, got called away for something. Yes, Radiothon was live in person (in Trenton State College's Rathskellar!) AND on the air. Also, I cannot fucking believe you threw away that priceless Flipper tuna! For reference: https://c.im/@mlupica/111768088171202034

Carlos request huffing songs of every wprb dj let's do it

"Citizen Ruth" is my all time huffing favorite movie.

Starting with first Ramones album

Haaaaaaa!! Roff

No. Its important to understand how. how it works. What I did was ask for Frank Zappa to run an uber service, and pick up Schopenhauer. at thre train station. Then listen in on the conversation.

I prefer Gummo, or that tragic Philip Seymour Huffman huffing film

Mat saw the movie! lol

@mike hahahhahaha thank you for memorializing it! I was kind of worried it would explode.

Huffman? lol

I once threw out a jar of Bobby Clarke peanut butter

I've had huffers as social work clients and they are a fascinating lot.

That Flipper Tuna never goes bad you know?

Groan

@bike hahahahah

my ex.used to get too friendly with the acetone when doing her nails

Where was the tuna purchased?

It's magical from the King O' the Ocean.

Hot Glue Gun! Maybe the only time 90s indie rock tried to make phaser guitar FX cool.

Flipper's PR company, @roffle

@mike that's the part where the flames shoot out and he circles the guitar around his head, right?

Bobby Clarke Peanut Butter? You made the right spectral analysis.

Dangerous guitars are what our parents warned us about.

that one scream from Guy makes me laugh EVERY DARN TIME

@lester..tossed out by the future Mrs Ramone..said we are not moving this jar to another home again

@carlos hahahhahahaha no!

oh chit there's a bonkers song by Kevin Blechdom about huffing https://www.discogs.com/release/475421-Kevin-Blechdom-Eat-My-Heart-Out?srsltid=AfmBOor7KLTsSUaINHJQT7pziAjgv5QoNRZvfyDHuyaMsc8wuDYxAsA7

Smart move Mrs Ramone

At 2:17 a.m., the app pinged. A new rider: Arthur Schopenhauer, verified account, pickup at the corner of Wilshire and Existential Dread.Frank pulled the pod down through the sky-traffic with a flourish, landing soft as a rimshot. The door irised open.Schopenhauer climbed in, looking exactly like his portraits: severe black coat, white cravat, hair like an angry hedgehog. He carried no luggage, only a small leather-bound copy of The World as Will and Representation.“Mr. Zappa,” he said in crisp

pretty sure Schopenhauer invented punk

Schopenhauer bristled. “The Will is not to be trifled with. It is the blind, ceaseless striving that underlies all phenomena. Music, at best, offers temporary respite—an aesthetic contemplation that quiets the Will. But when the final chord fades, the suffering resumes. And after death? Nothing. Complete annihilation. The most honest philosophy demands we accept this.”

Or shoegaze

tru

helluva glue set , dj!!

i wonder if he'd dig WPRB

Monks spend a lifetime getting to nothingness Les. lol

lifetime of silence is not my jam.

Right? They could have just waited.

He’d dig this set, but would have trouble keeping up in the chat

HAHHA

Jam is not Jelly

Bike R LOL

hard to jelly in a few more songs

Nietzsche could keep up in the chat since he had the newfangled writing ball (proto typewriter)

@Jen…many people or groups I would volunteer to have a lifetime of silence from

Nietzsche was the OG chatlord

pardon'moi. This was an observation on penns campus. i probably shouldn't say stuff like this.

hello and happy new yerr

Nietzsche's brutality in the chatosphere is legendary, and documented by Walter Kaufmann in Princeton.

I'm somewhere between Søren Kierkegaard and Vonnegut on the topic.

linotype machine. Melted metal into the galley's

thanks for the Gas Huffer Jen!

anytime! happy new year, @andrew!

roffle? there are many principalites. But only one Prince!

LFG as the great TAndy says

Many kings and many kingdomes too. :)

so reminder that I'll be on again tomorrow! come on back at noon, and we'll pick up this convo wherever we leave off....

Yes!

calendared

Queens for the seamstressors.

It's always a running conversation here. Love it.

queens of the stone age

... and love the idea of skiing in Vegas!

I will knit you back, dear peeples.

I am taking my mother grocery shopping tomorrow am..will check to see if carbona is still available and report back

dj Jen, the great Sleaford Mods talked about self.destruction and livin thru it and twas beautiful

love the sleaford mods!

@bike it was fun!

Carlos nice!

Mama Ramone!

Now what the hell am i going to do? Finish painting the bedroom?

just dance, @lester

paint it black

very dark blueish color. I am loving it.

Lester, write a note to nomeansno on the wall and see if they respond, they have been known to

gotta sign off. see y'all tomorrow ;)

thx Jen, good stuff!

There are shades of indigo I want to snatch from the sky and paint my place with, but I can't reach.

see you next time, @bike!

jen, one of the best on this station, love it.

If your friends cant dance, Aktually, i have been working on my take of Rock and Roll Suicide

Roff, J Mascis bets on sky

@oldmotorbikeguy thank you for the kind words! awesome!

well said oldmotorbikeguy

Song bringing thoughts of Seinfeld and curb your enthusiasm

i hate answering myself , someone perfected it

Lol aiffrig

Love many things Portland I do, Mats

Is this Ralph Mactell?

can you stick around a few more hours, Jen?

I second oldmotorbikeguy

She is still tired from 5 hr show

Kind of you to ask, @ombg, but there will be more fun to come on WPRB! and I'll be back tomorrow at noon.

@carlos hahah i have recovered. that was a blast!

12 pm tomorrow? I may have sobered up by then.

Lester LOL!

That's one way to do another five hour show. Just do it in 2two acts! The maths work.

Lester go easy on that ol' rugged sauce

@lester..I blew dry January around 5 pm yesterday

Spelling, not so much.

i vote for a 25 hour new wave power pop and fugazi marathon! i can handle a few hours.

Carlos haaaaaaaaaaaa!!

@roffle for sure! and I'm back again Tuesday evening! bwah hahahahaahaha

@ombg noted!

another new years resolution promise to myself violated. No worries. ther will always be a tomorrow. Schopenhauer said so.

Lester lol!

Jen is bravely going into THE ZONE

Sweet, sweet overtime. :)

Jen stay hydrated, punk

haha i need that after a few days in vegas. Desert is no joke.

Woooo! This show always makes my long friday commutes home worth it. I didnt even run any red lights (sorry!)

Just got in from birding. Hi and all that

Dennis nice!

fun chat! Ribald. Jerseyian.

@roffle. Get some very long pencils. Lie on your back in the bed and write on the ceiling.

@dennis ..even when I know where I am going I always use Mapquest on phone whe driving..always tells me where the redlight cameras and speed ones are

@carlos- Flock cameras. Deflock me.

@dennis I'm glad I could help and that you're staying safe out there!

@lester, I need to borrow some paint to cover up the old pencil. :)

hello, @rob! what did you see today?

thanks Jen, strong work, reminiscent of DJ Stretch in Texas Chainsaw 2. Well done.

Led Pencils. Been a long time.

ha! thanks for the participation, @mats!

yeah, i will be listening tomorrow for sure

Lester LOL!

amazing, @chris! see you then

back at you @mat

Fun for all on social media. Guess i have to go scream at people om X now. LOL, no.

THX Jen! CU

have a great evening!

Jen, who could even try to follow the great Jerry Gordon? Apparently you can. Gorden spped to you.

@Jen, a Red-flanked Bluetail, a Siberian species making its first appearance in Virginia. At Great Falls Park, along the Potomac not too far upriver from the beltway or too far from my house

🤘🏻

nice Rob.

nice, @rob!

see you guys!

It was a life bird for me, needless to say. Look it up online, the male is gorgeous, the female (which is here) is shades of brown, white, and orange