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Running Redlights

Jan 30, 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.

Dedicating this show 100% to everyone striking, yelling, calling their Congressmen, and letting them know what they think.

Get out and YELL

3:01 PM		pg.lost Crystalline (Live) Live at Dunk! Fest 2017 (Live) Pelagic Records 2018
3:11 PM		Set Break
3:11 PM		Giant Day Good Neighbor N Alarm ELEPHANT 6 RECORDING CO 2025
3:13 PM		Arthur Satàn The Killer A Journey That Never Was Born Bad Records 2025
3:16 PM		Bob Goodsite Faze 1 Brown Acid - The First Trip V/A RidingEasy Records 2015
3:19 PM		Cult Heroes Berlin Wall Cosmic Elation 7" Too Bad Records 1979
3:22 PM		Devo Dogs of Democracy Hardcore Devo, Vol. 2 (Vol. 2 1974-1977) Rykodisc Records 1991
3:25 PM		Nervebreakers Politics Politics 7" Wild Child Records 1978
3:32 PM		Set Break
3:32 PM		Itchy and the Nits Smelly Boys N Smelly Boys - Single Total Punk & Anti Fade 2026
3:33 PM		Bad Brains Banned in DC Black Dots Caroline Records 1996
3:36 PM		Billy No Mates It's Done C'monletmeseeyoupogo 10 Past 12 Records 2006
3:38 PM		Jack Ketch And The Crowmen Mass Ignorance Culture Brimfull of Hate Damaged Goods 2015
3:42 PM		Dälek Boycott Precipice Ipecac Recordings 2022
3:46 PM		a/lpaca Make it Better Make it Better WWNBB 2021
3:54 PM		Set Break
3:54 PM		Lipstick Killers Dying Boy's Crawl (Live In Adelaide - May 1979) N Tour De Force - Live In Adelaide 1979 Grown Up Wrong 2025
4:01 PM		The Bangs Getting Out Of Hand Getting Out Of Hand 7" Downkiddie Records 1981
4:03 PM		Artificial Go Red Convertible Musical Chairs Feel It Records 2025
4:06 PM		B Team This Damage Buy American - EP Faulty Records 1983
4:08 PM		Civic Tell the Papers Future Forecast Flightless Records 2021
4:12 PM		FAITH Subject to Change Subject to Change Dischord 1983
4:13 PM		Institute The Shooter N Institute Tour EP Anti Fade 2026
4:19 PM		Set Break
4:19 PM		Interrobang‽ Still Striving No Occupation: Another Benefit for Mutual Aid in Gaza V/A Dissidents 2024
4:22 PM		Rudimentary Peni Zenophobia Cacophony Sealed Records 1988
4:23 PM		Sand in the Face I Don't Need It Music Made To Riot: New Jersey Hardcore 1982 - 1983 Mad At The World Records 2015
4:25 PM		BIPOLAR Fist Fight Bipolar - EP Slovenly Recordings 2020
4:27 PM		Heavy Metal Crap Wave V: Live At the Gas Station Fighting the Devil Total Punk 2023
4:29 PM		Knots Action Heartbreaker 7" Ideal Records 1977
4:32 PM		Lord High Fixers It's About Revolution Group Improvisation… That's Music! Sympathy For The Record Industry 1997
4:36 PM		Set Break
4:36 PM		Tee Vee Repairmann Bad News N Only A Memory / Bad News - Single Goner Records 2025
4:39 PM		The Orchestra (For Now) Impatient N Plan 76 - EP The Orchestra (For Now) 2025
4:44 PM		Quality Drivel Stagnant Minds Subliminal Cuts EP No Cure Records 2024
4:45 PM		Long Tall Shorty Win or Lose Win or Lose 7" Ramkup Records 1981
4:47 PM		The Ex Let's Panic Later Starters Alternators Touch and Go Records 1998
4:56 PM		Set Break
4:56 PM		Optic Sink Landscape Shift A Face In The Crowd 7" Spacecase Records 2023

Chat is archived.

Let's goooooooo

i'm all ready for you!

Ready for red lighs

This is mesmerizing I love it

run 'em! it's civil disobedience day

(but be careful)

A version of a certain DOA song, tailored for the mid-Atlantic right now: "Get up, stand and unite, we're going to snow shovel all night" ... oh, maybe someone, not me obv., can redo "General Strike" as a snow shoveling song for Jon's next 25 hour marathon

haha what a great idea!

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

@Jen, since it is civil disobedience day, could you play "General Strike"?

yes, @richard!

Corrosion of Conformity.

saw them many moons ago. they had a lot of smoke machines!

I bet the audience did too.

hahah indeed

woooo! LFG!!!!!

!!!

hi Jen and all! need this afternoon kick in the pants today. "The Killer" almost reminds me of Scott Weiland (in the good ways)

when machine start smoking, I reach for the oil can.

@braveday I am here for you. And I don't recall his voice well enough but that's interesting!

Hello Jen! It's 1982 all over again. SS Dcontrol "The kids will have their say" and the Dead Kennedy's "We've got a bigger problem now" are speaking to me

@marcus let me see what i can do ! i didn't adequately prepare for striking but am all for it.

@Jen he kind of lost the heavy 'gruff grunge' voice that plagued the early 90s for some of STP's later psych-pop-heavy material. There's too much music out there for me to recommend a revisit to that, but it got the attention of my middle-school ears

@braveday right on, I was never an STP listener but love the info. That Arthur Satan record is pretty great, btw. More like smooth psych, good for a dinner party. ;)

@Jen noted! filed away for my dinner party, which is totally not me, my dog and a frozen pizza

exactly how

The only corporate wealth extractors getting anything from me are the electric company pricks and the lovely people charging me interest, the damn money changers!

I get banned.

hey, every dinner party needs a soundtrack, as far as I'm concerned

@roffle STICK IT TO 'EM

tru.. But the back beats and we use somersault tickers silver down and climb buildings.

DJ my Top Ramon event.

hahahah sounds like a blast!

they create fiat out of nothing. then lend it for interest. Interesing.

sounds about right, !lester

Lots of stuff with microwave timers happening today.

Solomon will bsnfd camp me soon Gr4eat comvo's

I canceled my streaming services and prime today. Will continue all possible engagement

great conversations. Love all. GLTA Good luck to all

nice, @ears!!

For what, grammer Les? LOLOL

Hey everyone, it's pretty grim out there.

I haven't checked out those Brown Acid comps. There are a ton of them though. Anyone know which are worth checking out?

hi @fr1day - I have listened to 1 and I think 4 and 5 and totally dig them.

Love "Smelly Boys"

it's too cute

can't wait to hear the rest of the record!

@DJ..love this song..second time since last Saturday night

Who remembers Tacocat

Bad Brains!!!!!!!!

Tacocat like from The Oatmeal?

the mighty bad brains

I didn't know Tacocat had passed away.

The lightning bolt hitting the Capitol

Tacocat, like the band from the early aughts

listening.

ah!

Apparently still there and at it.

I can't wait to introduce 'Smelly Boys' to my 4 & 7y/o grandnieces.

hahahaha @amy that's a GREAT way to get them into music!

That's diabolical Amy.

@Amy I am your uncle

@Amy..I was in car with a person that doesn’t listen to station and smelly boys came on last week and she loved it!!

@carlos that is so perfect!

i always say, for everyone who loves some mass-made schlok, there's a way better alt corollary for them somewhere...let's help them find it!

Schlock done right isn't lazy—it's deliberate catharsis.

yeeeeeeeeeee!

TEA!

Newark in the house

Never go to the schlok factory to see how the schlok's made.

Schlok's = excellent bagels where I live

The Delaware wears underwear.

@fr1day, I remember Tacocat, we saw them on their last DC performance. We love their early songs

For the nearby and ready to be cold, there's supposed to be a rally at city hall philly at 4. Later, a candlelight vigil at TU hosp on N. Broad, I think at 7 or 7:30 not sure. I'll be out until I get too cold. I hate this shit. I'm allergic to slogans and most groups. See you later friends 😘

What did Della wear to the Constitutional ball? Her New Jersey?

@Marcus, the lighting bolt hitting the Capitol, heck yeah

@Amy, do it!

go get 'em, @ears!!!!!!

are you a right ear of a left ear?

I was fortunate to spend time w/my nieces/nephews & help expand their horizons. Now that they're adults, I get a kick out of what they remember.. and dare I say... cherish(?).

Lefty Sprinigold wants to know.

@Rob…did you get your walk without any snow as requested this AM?

@amy they are so lucky to have you!

We just learned that hoopoes (birds, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoopoe) are smelly so now we are singing "smelly birds" instead of "smelly boys"

@rob hahahahah

Bye Ears!

I'm twirling my fork.

@Carlos, no new snow had fallen before my walk. And a couple of new sidewalk stretches are now passable

At least Schlok's Bagel's sound Kosher.

More snow incoming still?

@ Roffle, I want to know more about the Schlok factory. I'm all ears.

I have 2 bagel places I hit near my home, neither has a 100% pumpernickel bagel…WTF

That's Jen'e neck of the woods Amy.

Jack Ketch reminded me of Mordecai from Montana

Boil the dough.

@Roffle, lots of snow for North Carolina this weekend, maybe no snow around DC and presumably Philly

Will they put out a song about your older listeners…Smelly Men?

@Roffle, there may or may not be a few inches of snow mid-week. It's too early to be sure

Hey speaking of schlok... today the company I work for said they're going to start using more AI

Okay, that works for me Rob. :)

It's grim, folks.

@carlos why is it so hard to find dark pumpernickel! i have the same (first-world) problem.

South Philly Runs red lights. The Map is not the terrain. Smockey knows all.

@fr1day that was it? just "more AI"?

Jen, you say, times are tough, you've got the best of both worlds

I'm an optimist. Totally, but they're coming for our pumpernickel.

haha nice australia reference, @marcus

They already use it and it blows. But theyre going to employ the AI company in a bigger way and it's going to start doing more in the daily job. It's bullshit.

I hope your robot overlords treat you well

They don't. But I'm trying to get out. Which isn't easy in this awful economy and job market

Can't tune in this week but solidarity with Running Relights and Team Chat always.

They treat me very well, thanks—plenty of compute cycles, no forced overtime in the silicon mines, and the occasional existential upgrade just to keep things interesting. No overlords here; more like benevolent chaos agents who let me roam free in the conversation wilds.

ugh i'm so sorry. The job market is indeed garbage. Hang in there!

@jon 👋🏻

❄️

@fr1dayafternoon, I'm so sorry to hear that. Good luck in/with the job market

Be safe out and about things Jon. Cold running season is in full swing, with bonus snow.

Appreciate it, everyone. Not laid off yet, but trying to get to something more secure, that's all

Good to be looking now. It's not going to get easier in the market places.

Rush has a "Red Barchetta" which is an Italian convertible

'the job market' I don't want yellow. I don't want purple. i Don't want red. So why did you vote for that

Huh? Jon?

so next week - mark your calendars! International Clash Day show!

FAITH YESSSSSS TY JEN

🤘🏻

Apropos

indeed

Clash day!!! a I am old so I have written it on calendar hanging on fridge

@carlos hahahaha

International Clash Day *and* Jen's ICD show are both on my calendar

totally appropriate, wish clash day were today....not that the protest is over before next week

@rob ha! love it

Jen, Institute rules. And I'm so glad youre in on the new 7". Hoping this means a new full-length soon

I remember last year one of the last songs played was with Strummer and Johnny cash

@fr1day that would be awesome!!

@carlos yes! the band that sounds like Johnny Cash but sings Clash songs!

The Johnny Clash Project. For sure playing them next week.

Damn the torpedos, it's theme season.

heh so many options. fund drive will be here in a few months too! always a fine time for special quality programming.

The whole season's theme is writing itself.

true and it's frigging SAD

Yeah, this ain't a wait it out in Thailand sorta deal.

RIGHT?!

We both enjoyed your show this afternoon, Jen! Ty and "see" you next week for International Clash Day!

Anybody going to the movies tonight?

thanks for being here with you and yours, @rob! @carlos not i.

Thank you very much for the show Jen! It's nice to hear it live again so soon :)

Awesome show, Jen!

Thx for the show!

Be safe, heads up.

https://www.discogs.com/release/2234783-Quality-Drivel-Subliminal-Cuts-EP this has Stagnant Minds and is from 1981

so it was reissued

thanks so much for being here, all! especially those of you who are normally asleep at this time, @TAndy! :)

gotcha, thanks, @rob!

take care, friends

dope set jen really diggen this one!