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Running Redlights

Feb 20, 2026 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Music

With Dan Ruccia

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.

My dentist is a communist

3:01 PM		The Necessaries Like No Other N Completely Necessary (Anthology 1978-1982) Omnivore Recordings 2026
3:04 PM		Talking Heads Cities Fear of Music Warner Records 1979
3:08 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
3:12 PM		NoMeansNo Dark Ages Small Parts Isolated And Destroyed Alternative Tentacles 1988
3:16 PM		Coriky Say Yes Coriky Dischord Records 2020
3:19 PM		Marissa Nadler & Stephen Brodsky In the Air Tonight In the Air Tonight / More Than Words - Single Sacred Bones Records 2019 Phil Collins cover
3:25 PM		Mandy, Indiana Dodecahedron N URGH Sacred Bones Records 2026
3:28 PM		SML Taking out the Trash How You Been International Anthem 2025
3:32 PM		Sprints Deceptacon Deceptacon Sub Pop 2025 Le Tigre cover
3:35 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
3:40 PM		Yoko Ono Don’t Worry Kyoko (Mummy’s Only Looking for a Hand in the Snow) Fly Apple 1971 Happy birthday!!
3:45 PM		Emily Robb Dance Music N The Space Between Attack and Decay (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Petty Bunco 2026
3:49 PM		Altin Gün Zuluf Dokulmus Yunze N Garip Glitterbeat 2026
3:53 PM		The Cramps Uranium Rock Bad Music For Bad People IRS 1984 Happy birthday, Poison Ivy
3:55 PM		Charged G.B.H. City Baby Attacked by Rats R City Baby Attacked By Rats Secret Records 1981
3:58 PM		Arab On Radar Molar System Queen Hygiene II / Rough Day at the Orifice Three One G 2003
4:01 PM		Lightning Bolt Cloud Core N The Horizon Spirals / The Horizon Viral Thrill Jockey 2026 Split with OOIOO
4:05 PM		Joe Westerlund Furahai Curiosities from the Shift Psychic Hotline 2025
4:09 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
4:15 PM		Cryptid Summer Myth of creation N Where The Earth Has Teeth a La Carte 2026
4:20 PM		Donna Summer Macarthur Park On the Radio: Greatest Hits, Vol. I & II Island Def Jam 1979
4:23 PM		Joshua Chuquimia Crampton Chakana Head-Bang! N Anata 2026
4:27 PM		Cult Objects Palms N Amulet 2026
4:29 PM		The Gun Club John Hardy Miami Animal 1982
4:33 PM		The Jean Paul Sartre Experience All the Way Down Love Songs Flying Nun 1988
4:36 PM		Cochemea The Land Swallowed Them Whole Vol III: Ancestros Futuros DAPTONE RECORDS 2025
4:41 PM		Jacqueline Humbert & David Rosenboom Bareback Daytime Viewing Unseen Worlds 1983
4:45 PM		Harriet Tubman & Georgia Ann Muldrew When You Rise N Electrical Field of Love Pi Records 2026
4:50 PM		MEMORIALS Cut Glass Hammer N All Clouds Bring Not Rain Fire Records 2026
4:54 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
4:58 PM		Sweep the Leg Johnny Please Give Me Roses Before I Am Dead Tomorrow We Will Run Faster Southern 1999

Chat is archived.

I am once again asking for your help running some red lights.

found a city

Chrissy Hinds: my city was gone

Siouxsie and the Banshees: your cities are dust

We built this city on rock and roll by We built this city and the Rock and Rolls

We built this rock and roll on cities built on rock and roll

Hello Dan, I have a request: City Baby Attacked by Rats by Charged GBH (Great Big Haircuts)

Just wrapped up today's meetings and am now doing a touch of studio work at Barge 2.0 before cutting out for the weekend. I cannot wait to hear what this Nadler/Brodsky cover of "In the Air Tonight" does with the drum solo.

Marcus, I think that can be arranged in a little while

Dedicated to all those who were teenage punk rockers in 1982

👍🏼

OK, I will accept that metal guitar crunch as a stand in for the drum solo. Can't believe I've never heard this before -- it's great!

I was wandering around her bandcamp page and it jumped out. B-side is a cover of More Than Words

impending doom

S-P-R-I-N-T-S!

Saw them at Bowery Ballroom two weeks ago, so great.

Someday they'll come to where I am

I feel like their lead singer and the lead singer of (punk band from New Orleans whose name I can't pull up right now) and Amyl (of the sniffers) might be the three most charismatic singers out there right now

The Red Rockers started as a Punk band from New Orleans

Charismatic, but with baseball bats in case that don't work out.

Captain Beefheart doesn't hold a candle to this

No worries....

Apparently this show is all about songs giving instructions

There's a video of Chuck Berry and John Lennon playing when Yoko starts singing and the cut off her mic

@Dan, do you mean Ali Logout from Special Interest? If so, I agree 100%.

Special Interest! Yes!

That band is the future.

And I mean that in the best way.

Totally. I saw them perform at like 2pm once and they tore the goddamn place apart. It was incredible

@Marcus they really were a bunch of jerks to here, weren't they?

Yoko plays the whole guitar, not just the parts that sound pretty. lol.

Lennon may have had some issues in his domestic life

Philosophically.

Hey Dan- Digging the show. I hope saying that doesn't get me banned.

😀

BATTLE VEST ON

GREAT BIG HAIRCUTS

GOLF BALL HEAD

Elmers glue and blue hair dye likes its 1981

I wonder if either of the dudes in Lightning Bolt still have working eardrums?

Music to give birth to in a mosh-pit.

lacin up the linenan's boots

Miss Cleo is waiting on the Psychic Hotline. Dionne Warwick approves

Like the vibe of this Cryptid Summer.

Donna Summer and Giorgio Moroder one of the greatest musical combinations

@Amy Yeah, they definitely hit the right musical buttons

@Marcus Oh, for sure. Also fun to have them reinjected into the zeitgeist of the moment

It was a simpler time. 2/4

(Which, if y'all aren't watching the Olympics, Alysa Liu won gold in women's figure skating doing a routine to that song. It's maybe the most joyful, fun skating routine I've ever seen)

Olympians have the best gravity awareness. Beautiful stuff in motion.

I'm digging this too, @Lester. Free all the verbs!

Jeffrey Lee, oh Jeffrey Lee... you're the only boy for me.

The best bluesman to ever punk

howdy everyone

Hey Rob!

Hey Rob! And thanks Dan, for making the Donna Summer, Cramps, Yoko puzzle work.

Thanks, Roffle! It's always a joy to put together these radiophonic puzzles in real time

👍

Hello Rob! I thought Chandra Levy went missing in MacArthur Park but it was in Rock Creek Park

Marcus, yes, she did go missing in Rock Creek Park. Her body was found not terribly far from a favored birding spot, which made it really weird for us birders

Thanks for the sub show, Dan. And hi Roffle and Marcus and Dan! Until the next time

Great show, Dan!

Thanks, y'all! Until next time!!