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Running Redlights

Jan 16, 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.

Making hay of nonsense

3:01 PM		Caspian Crawlspace The Four Trees The Mylene Sheath 2007
3:08 PM		Set Break
3:08 PM		Exek Unseasonable Warmth (Live at Rrr) N Live at RRR Legno 2025
3:13 PM		Ritual Tension Like a Slob Downtown NYC - A Compilation Of The Best NYC Artists V/A Virgin 1988
3:16 PM		Protomartyr Cowards Starve The Agent Intellect Hardly Art 2015
3:20 PM		The Okmoniks Not That Good Party Fever!!! Slovenly Recordings 2008
3:22 PM		The Lust-O-Rama Won't Be Running Twenty-Six Screams Skyclad 1991
3:24 PM		The Housemartins Garageland Brixton Academy 26.9.87 Old Works Records 1987
3:27 PM		Itchy and the Nits Smelly Boys R N Greetings from Itchy and the Nits Total Punk & Anti Fade 2026
3:32 PM		Set Break
3:32 PM		Lipstick Killers Dying Boy's Crawl (Live In Adelaide - May 1979) N Tour De Force - Live In Adelaide 1979 Grown Up Wrong 2025
3:37 PM		New York Dolls Something Else Red Patent Leather Fan Club 1984
3:40 PM		Young Identities Positive Thinking EP Savage Music 1978
3:42 PM		Negative Scanner Would You Rather? R Negative Scanner Trouble In Mind Records 2015
3:45 PM		The Lovin' Spoonful Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind? Do You Believe In Magic Buddah 1965
3:47 PM		The Van Pelt Artisans & Merchants Artisans & Merchants Spartan Records 2023
3:50 PM		Beefeater Mr. Silverbird Plays for Lovers Dischord 1985
3:57 PM		Set Break
3:57 PM		NoMeansNo Humans R The Worldhood Of The World (As Such) Alternative Tentacles 1995
4:01 PM		The Jump Shake Up Shake Up / All In Vain 7" Caveman Records 1980
4:05 PM		Twisted Teens Is It Real? N Is It Real? - Single Jazz Life 2026
4:08 PM		The Jade Shader Power of Suggestion Sea Stacks and Sleestaks Joyful Noise Recordings 2018
4:11 PM		No Trend Teen Love Teen Love (12”) - Single Drag City Records 1982
4:17 PM		The Nashville Ramblers The Trains The Trains / Fragile Child 7" UT Records 2011
4:23 PM		Set Break
4:23 PM		Teengenerate Let's Get Hurt N Live at the Empty Bottle Hozac Records 2026
4:26 PM		Psychic Pigs I'm On Drugs Psychic Pigs Slovenly Recordings 2025
4:28 PM		Rata Negra Mi Opinión N Hawai Sonido Muchacho 2025
4:31 PM		Lord Sterling First Test Pressing Your Ghost Will Walk Chainsaw Safety Records 1997
4:34 PM		Whistler’s Mother Dark Dawn 7" Multi 1970
4:37 PM		Davie Allan Buzz Saw Effect Split - EP Relapse Records 2016
4:40 PM		Truth and Janey It's All Above Us No Rest For The Wicked (remastered) Rockadrome Records 2010
4:46 PM		Set Break
4:47 PM		Sleaford Mods Megaton N The Demise of Planet X Rough Trade 2026
4:49 PM		Prostitute Judge N Attempted Martyr Mute 2025
4:52 PM		Red Monkey Courage in This Now Gunpowder, Treason And Plot Troubleman Unlimited 2001
4:57 PM		Set Break
4:57 PM		WITCH By the Time You Realize Zango Desert Daze Sound 2023

Chat is archived.

It's Friday afternoon! Hi Jen!

it is indeed! I'm so ready for it! hello!

Anyone home?

dingdong!

The January Jen-a-Thon continues! (ragged punky vox: Yeah!)

Good ol' Charlie Duda

hahah good ole duda echoes

it's been a fun month! But of course the friday slot is the bestest

Wouldn't it be funny if there are bands named Aral and Volga? They could tour with Caspian #GeographyNerd

HAHAH

Friday was pizza day, the best day of the week….Aquabats!!!

the Black Volga of urban legends

Just like there should be bands named Cormorant and Anhinga, they could tour with Pelican #BirdNerd

feels like these are dreams we can make real somehow

@carlos pizza day!

i had leftover pizza for lunch, so I'm in!

though tonight it's going to be dumplings

@Jen, speaking of birds, have your or your app encountered any more bird songs?

you know, I haven't pulled it out recently! super lame! When I'm outside lately, I tend to be on the bike...which is tricky for listening to birds.

Awesome two songs so far. It’s like pixies morphine and that song about the car crash

I'm glad you're enjoying so far! the pixies car crash song - I can see it!

Ok 3

Bangers :)

dumplingpunk

Carlos..do you enjoy leftover pizza for breakfast? Never had it..never had pizza for breakfast? never had leftovers

Yo.

Been listening away from computer, but at least the dishwasher is emptied.

hello! great work on the dishwasher.

@carlos hahahah

there is a special joy to discovering a slice in the fridge unexpectedly

It is breakfast, and sometimes it gets reheated in the dishwasher.

!!!

Pixies covering Avengers' "Car Crash"?! That would be totally awesome

@Jen, I totally understand about biking and bird listening not being compatible ... one reason I don't have a bike ;-)

hahah there are also cars nearby, typically. but i enjoy watching the crows who like to hang outside my living room windows. They are the size of toddlers. We try to be friends.

that Protomartyr track is the "run through a wall" energy I need today.

Completely failing with search or genai to find that 1980s alt spoken ironic relationship song the second track reminded me of

@bravedelay - outstanding! Kool-Aid man style?

@joanna i was thinking about the superhero named Tony song flowing straight into Wave of Mutilation

which is a sentence that was fun to write

Sorry 9pm in Berlin here

Defo some pixies but crossed with what?

berlin! Love it!!

We have a friend named Tony who is a Pixies fan or at least knows all the words to the song with his name

@Jen, just back from my first trip to Japan and was amazed how loud and haunting the crows were. They seemed to be everywhere there were trees.

Jen, do you have DOA's "General Strike" handy?

@john welcome back and WOW, you just reminded me of a similar memory from when we were in Japan...not sure if they were crows, but they were loud!

John the japanese crows are as extreme as japanese music, movies, etc. I admire the japanese dedication to extreme experience.

otoh the House Martins covering The Clash is awesome

oof, not sure, but I don't have something for you in a moment, @rob

Rob MD nice one

Rob MD I was just down a nomeansno rabbithole yesterday

Hearing this song reminds me that International Clash day is upon us soon..any plans this year?

i can't even remember if I like the Housemartins, but this cover was such a find!

@carlos thanks for the reminder!! i need to look up the date!

Carlos good reminder

Can’t remember what I had for breakfast , but last years show comes to mind!!

Itchy & da Nits! Upbeat female punk a la Free Refills (Los Angeles)

@Smelly Mats, I love DOA, I know they are "really old" but some songs still lift me up

Smelly Boys is gonna summon Ossy and his smell sense

Rob MD DOA is an OG legend! I have total respect.

@Carlos, I think I will be listening to KEXP on International Clash Day, sorry WPRB people

International Clash Day is February 7

Rob it's good to have varied experiences!

ah thank you Rob MD

Thank you Jen for playing Itchy and the Nits

Also, Jen, House Martin is a species of European swallow which looks something like our Tree Swallo

@Rob…for all DOA fans , I Shithead, is a good read

ok I have cawfee now, I can do this

@carlos hahaha Clash sinks in! it seems that the day is normally celebrated closer to end of Feb, and in deference to KEXP, perhaps we'll need to do that....

@rob you are welcome, and good to know about housemartins!

****Correction**** it looks like International Clash Day is February 6 https://www.kexp.org/events/kexp-events/international-clash-day-2026/

Carlos yes! And the NMN book is rad too. There's also a very good and very sad doco about SNFU.

I regretfully don't have any DOA in the pile

I don't think that KEXP celebrates Int. Clash Day on the 7th of Feb. when the 7th is on a Saturday or Sunday

Jen it's okay, your love of puck rock/canuck punk is already solidified.

Jen, no worries, I'll play Class War after your show (or even during it 😇)

I have a show Feb 6th!

sorry you won't be here, @rob ;)

Rob MD is droppin anthem references! We talkin anthems!

@Carlos, ty for the I Shithead recomend

the world went to shite when Nomeansno retired. Direct cause and effect.

i do have NMN...hold, please

Jen that live song called to mind the unhinged live versions of Moss Icon songs

NMN in the pipeline? REASON TO LIVE

Brown Reason to Live (Butthole Surfers)

oh interesting on moss icon!

Moss Icon's "I'm Back, Sleeping or Fucking Or Something" is unhinged live and way different on album (amazeballs song either way)

oi! oi! oi! snotty ol' sneer punk!

@Jen, I'll try to be here on Feb. 6. I have put a note on my calendar about your show!

awesome!!

it is sofa king cold outside

hey @mats thanks for the tip on this band! love this record

Negative Scanner! Thanks Jen! I love her voice. She is a sweetheart. I invited Negative Scanner to stay at my place in Atlanta but they had lodgings

her voice reminds me of Siouxsie so hard

my gf at time: YOU INVITED A TOTAL STRANGER PUNK BAND TO STAY WITH US?! Me: yup

haha on the strength of a lady's voice is what she was mad about. ;)

Aha! I know her voice from Tyler Jon Tyler.

https://www.luc.edu/gannon/staff/profiles/rebeccavaleriano-floresphd.shtml

She's also a PhD!

Lol I threw her into a lot of punk experiences she wasn't ready for

Jon holy shit!! Nice intel! Good for her. Rad!

of course she is, @jon! right on

Where TH did you dig this tune up from Jen?

Punkademics on the loose

@lester which one? Lovin Spoonful? Probably a bargain bin somewhere. :D

critical phenomenology Is the Phrenology on steroids?

Lester lol pretty much

Negative Scanner was great! And I love that Lovin' Spoonful song since I was a kid

And some of the lines in The Van Pelt song grabbed my attention

i'm filling in next and i gotta watch the playlist to make sure i don't play the exact same new releases as jen!

Loving Spoonful. huh. I learn new stuff on the WPRB chat I could never learn any where else.

i feel like there's one song you are exceedingly likely to scoop me on haha

Hi @Commie! I won't complain if you do play the exact same new releases

The Van Pelt's drummer is DJ Foggy Notion, who spins at Asbury Park joints like Low Dive.

Hey Rob- I only meant to take care of yourself. Sorry that was misconstrued.

fun fact: I got into Negative Scanner cuz the great Doug Dufresne of sarcastic electropunk Oakland miscreants Diesel Dudes was wearing the band's shirt. I loved the term "negative scanner."

@commie hi!!! can't wait to hear what you have!

Commie LOLOLOLOL! Scooping!

@commie hahah you give me too much credit

Negative fan has entered the chat. He brings recordings from 60's AM radio

it's fun to learn stuff new to our ears! happens to me daily. THE MAGIC OF RADIO!

Hey it's Beefeater :-DD

Fantastic first hour Jen

the OG converters are quite dangerous when over volted. We Drive into the 2 ohm night here. Mavis has bucket seats.

The song I still can’t dig up was a BIT like pixies “subculture” but it ends in a car crash and they never realise their career potential (or something)

that Young Identities -- what a gem! Dude was puking after verses LOLOLOL

Joanna, I've got this!

Joana, Jon will deliver

You're describing "Teen Love" by No Trend.

you guys need to get a room. Or a Rhoomba. You decide

Joana, Jon knows my friends better than I do (such as Rebecca from Negative Scanner).

@Lester 3:50, no problem, I don't even know what you are referring to

Lester haaaaaa!!

Broken hearts are for a**holes.

https://notrend.bandcamp.com/track/teen-love-2

Lester yessssssss peak Zappa

Lester no harm no foul dude

Argh trump

@Joanna 3:54, that is a song by No Trend, an 80s DC band

THE ITCH IS SCRATCHED

@Joanna, the No Trend song is called "Teen Love"

Hi jen, and the running red lights flashing on steak with lemon jelly cream filling with peanut butter and mustard

LOOOOOL Sabbath

first NMN album with the great Tom Holliston on guitar

I understand a fine protected space. It wont last. I have been here before. Its a Pirate Republic for now. Think of the Burroughs novels.

Oops, I see Jon beat me to it. You go, Jon!!

Lester lol

this song slapped live (pint glasses rocket thru air, I feel the wind)

oh THAT car crash!

Great minds, Rob.

Rob MD the mind of Solomon is like an Ewok in a DeLorean. Unstoppable. And quick.

yo smelly- did you know about Zappa working with an illustrator ? Later who became an 'adult' director? Here ya go-

YESSS!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAUvFst5bOI

Lester cool!

best Friday afternoon radio show! just what i need after this #%$@@XXX week.

John Wright is one of the warmest people in punk.

and a helluva drummer

oldmotorbikeguy I hearya

@ombg Glad to be here for you!!

I'm not gonna tell you no more

I am a human radio station.

Ozzy we summoned you earlier with a smelly song about smelly bois :) I knew you'd get the Batsignal.

I finally figured it out. How many taked did this take Jon? And what did her mother have to say about that?

cakes. srry

One snow day afternoon about 10 years ago is all it took, Lester. Was fun for all!

Sorry had to we search

I wasn't as all-in on the Twisted Teens record as some peers were but boy do they have some SONGS and this is one of 'em.

hello all

Lol Jon

thanks for the hot tip on this song, @jon!

hello, @andrew!

I was out driving on the Airport Road, accidentally crashed into Elizabeth Taylor's car. No sign of Richard Burton.

Websearch lyrics because didn’t want to leave Jen’s show then api errors but THANKS jon rob smelly

You don't look Bryson-ish?

i can't really turn it up because I'm at work...and that just feels wrong

Happy to help, Joanna. Love it when I can actually ID something for a listener!

always love music referencing Sleestaks

I have been clicked in all day. But I am just back from my exercise walk. Important when one is 84 yrs old. Happy to have you in my digiteria. I hope you are having a great show.

Richard wow! Nice!

Oh this is good here

@richard way to stay active! hope the music helps

rockin jen

Head phones. I hit the 'Boss key' immediately brings up a fake excel sheet.

I finally hate Richard a little less.

Lester be safe in the trenches, punk is dangerous

Nice day for a brisk walk. I'll think I give it a go as well.

THAT is service!

I guess that's why I like it.

;)

Roff it's cold as fuck out there! Aint no cold like Jersey cold

My outfitter is a Sherpa. :)

No Trend!? Did I tune into JA in the AM on WFMU?

Jen this dj service exceeds the excellent service I used to demand at Waffle House

sweating today walking up the trail in 20 degree weather. Selling my skivvy's on ebay. People pay for honest perspiration.

@david hahaha

surely flipper is somewhere lurking

no question

lurking flipper is a decent band name

@Jon did ye catch Chef Patti's last show? Amazeballs. There is a band called Cuntsniffer, I learned from the dj.

Weird that. My Sherpa is an outfitter. We shared a Grande'

"Flipper died a natural death/he caught a nasty virus" - Gibby Haynes

Gibby is still out there. Works with young artists.

That is all the overlords demand Lester.

Joana great request!

Thanks!!!8

I missed that @SMS.

Drag City was around in '82?! Dayum

@Smelly…many years ago at a surfers show in Philly that was the first song they played. Once it was over they told the audience to get the hell out

I was sure Flipper recorded the Laughing song-

Carlos haaaaaaaaa!!

here it is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txD8lNwDsPk

Ha ha it wasn’t a request it was a half memory; this is just a great show:-)

💕 🤘🏻

Carlos Gibby shot at me with his beloved shotgun (blanks) at a Surfers show, which was a great honor. That fukn guy. LOL

@ Carlos Was that BH Surfers show at Revival?

I remember him doing a show with the local School of Rock branch…not sure the parents approved of his between songs banter

Carlos- The Bank- 6th and Spring garden, or

Right Revival. Who built that building?

John. No , but I was at that show…I 5hink it was at the electric factory

total rejection is true school punk. takes a special breed to go the distance

Jen it was '95!! I know. NMN as "nineties band"

90s band! hahaha or an 80s band

THE OLDS KNOW STUFF

Dead Bob has been active in NMN's stead (NMN drummer & friends)

Jen haaaaa! "Professor Marvel never guesses, he knows " - Wizard of Oz 1939

this is actually great!

Jen I bought Worldhood of World at Last Record Store in Santa Rosa! NorCal's little city with big city problems LOL

Lester what? Is that a yellow submarine reference? (I keep getting logged out and don’t notice the api error)

Telling you all this because I already told Jen: I booked the show this live performance is pulled from! New Bomb Turks, Teengenerate and Thee Speaking Canaries.

The beefeater album cover is a close second to Bloodhound gang “ Hefty fine”

hahahah i even missed that NBT and Speaking Canaries were in there too!

Jon nice!

I graduated high school 1982 but probably learned the song off whpk or some other Chicago thing

Carlos haaaaa! Bloodhound Gang, pennsyltucky bad boys

*looks downstairs to see if tenant is home* Flowchart- tenant is home- put on headphones. Tenant is not home. Turn it up loud enough to blow speakers.

Have perhaps told this story before but a NBT or Teengenerate fan in the front row unplugged a bunch of Damon Che's guitar pedals during Thee Speaking Canaries' set. This was received about as well as you can imagine. I think the perp got kicked in the head from the stage.

@lester hahaha

Lester out there doing the Lord's work

@jon someone is still bruised and stupid from that one

Jon haaaaa! At a High On Fire show a dude stole one of Matt's pedals so HOF superfans chased the a-hole down and got it back.

Saw Zappa at the tower many moons ago. he had a seriously bruiser looking guy on the stage with him. He had a sort of telescoping club. RIP Frank

this ID still makes me laugh so hard

Lester, reminds me of seeing Hunter S Thompson speak, and he brandished a telescoping club he threatened the audience with.

Fire me out of a canon. Point it West please.

@Lester..near where I live there is a mechanic shop called Joes garage…one day I will have to stop in and ask about the name

Carlos "Watermelon in Easter Hay" still makes me cry. So beautiful.

I have a friend who runs a garage. His 'mantra' is I fix sh*t. And he does

Whistler's Mother! What!! This is proto-doom

Where is Evil Knievel when we need him so badly for the jump over the Snake River canyon? Also- where is Offal Knoffal?

proto-doom!

Lester I think about Evil Knievel almost daily. That reckless ballsiness.

Nice find Jen! Wow

Snake River. Snakes Unite! Also- Sanka. its late.

Sanka on a Plane

coffee on a ship

the amount of fuzz that comes out of the wprb signal is truly wondrous. I am grateful.

MO FUZZ

snork on an ocean going vessel?

I think we're alone now the only sound is our beating hearts.

curse you if that song gets stuck in my head!

though the Snuff cover of said song is quite great

If you give me your size, I will buy you a proper fitting rubber gas mask.

Thing I just learned I had no idea about previously:

Mark Duplass was the singer for Volcano, I'm Still Excited!!

sweet Marshall stack brah

(Their exclamation marks not mine.)

hahahah that is some excellent esoterica

also i love bands with punctuation

interesting Jen. Sometimes 'they' create an ear worm. I find this phenomenally etymologically in a sense of forgottenologyical foghornologyistically reasonable.

Mark Duplass! The Duplass Bros

i am very susceptible to ear worms

Iowa! There's more to Iowa than Slipknot, they say

@Lester, during the COVID (previous Trump nightmare) event, I bought a full face snorkel and fitted it with good filters. :)

Do you know the work of Jim Nighboors? Fine voice. He did a great rendition of 'the impossible dream'

Roff LOL

Also did a rendition of a goofy Marine.

Sleaford Mods!!

the editing on this song is masterful

Sleaford Mods said somwthing very eloquent and lovely about self destructivess and making it thru afterward.

*something

Sleaford Mods innit. Summoning TAndy

protect Sleaford Mods at all cost

darn right!

The guests on their new record are a varied lot of "excellent."

Sleaford Mods is a voice of reason in a world gone sideways

Hello goodbye

Many folks can recite from their holy books. Whatever it may be.

Happy and I'm smiling Walk a mile to drink your water You know I'd love to love you And above you there's no other We'll go walking out While others shout of war's disaster Oh, we won't give in Let's go living in the past

I read that sleaford mods are on 13th album. How is that possible?

Red Monkey! Jen, very tenuous but intriguing similarity to this and a song by french barkers Bourbonese Qualk

jimbooooooo tis true. Powerhouse duo.

whoa...i'll need to look into that one

@Jen, I loved your show today! I'll try to catch your next show, whenever it is

Jimbooooo Sleaford Mods keep their overhead low. Two dudes and some beats.

MUSIC GOOD

Hey, that was good stuff Jen. Thanks!

Fanks den Jen! Helluva show! Have a good weekend yall.

oi oi oi Sleaford up. Up the Mods!

thanks so much, you guys! that was so much fun. thanks for keeping the chat chattering!

wprb forevah.

🤘🏻

Its not 17 already?

def stay tuned if you can jen, i think you will like my unscooped new release

i shall!