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Running Redlights

May 8, 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.

A new dawn, or just a gray day

3:00 PM		Red Sparowes We Stood Transfixed In Blank Devotion As Our Leader Spoke To Us, Looking Down On Our Mute Faces With A Great, Raging, And Unseeing Eye. Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun Neurot Recordings 2006
3:09 PM		Set Break
3:09 PM		Kim Gordon PLAY ME N PLAY ME Matador 2026
3:10 PM		Artificial Go Reality Does Hopscotch Fever Feel It Records 2024
3:13 PM		Cheryl It's Me Killer Kiss / It's Me - Single Reminder Records 2020
3:16 PM		Descartes A Kant After Destruction After Destruction Cleopatra Records 2023
3:19 PM		Winston Hightower Me Time (I Need Some) N 100 Acre Wood Perennial / K Records 2026
3:22 PM		Aiko el grupo Sexo Fender (Cenicero) Me están apuntando con un arma Elefant Records 2023
3:27 PM		Set Break
3:27 PM		Be Your Own Pet Pleasure Seeker Mommy Third Man Records 2023
3:30 PM		Appalachian Death Ride Firefly The Sound Of Poverty: Anyway Singles 92-93 V/A Get Hip Recordings 1994
3:34 PM		Ahmoudou Madassane Toumast Zerzura (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Sahel Sounds 2018
3:36 PM		Anthony Moore Useless Moments Flying Doesn't Help Drag City 2022
3:39 PM		Champion Jack Dupree Shim Sham Shimmy Lookey Dookey V/A Honk-It Records 2000
3:42 PM		The Courettes The Boy I Love Boom! Dynamite Damaged Goods Records 2023
3:48 PM		Set Break
3:48 PM		sprgrs Papiroflexia N Teeter/Totter V/A See/Saw 2026
3:50 PM		Heavens to Betsy My Red Self 1992 demo Kill Rock Stars 1992
3:54 PM		Dry Cleaning Strong Feelings New Long Leg 4AD 2021
3:58 PM		Medium Medium Guru Maharaji The Glitterhouse Cherry Red Records 1981
4:07 PM		Wolves Again Section 26 N Road of Lost Echoes Lovitt 2026
4:09 PM		Som The Place that I Belong Let The Light In Pelagic Records 2025
4:20 PM		Set Break
4:20 PM		Female Species Baby Buggy Tale of My Lost Love Numero Group 2021
4:20 PM		Keith Matic I Really Want to Stay (Lost in Rome) Cleveland Confidential V/A Terminal Records 1980
4:23 PM		The UFO Club Wolfman The UFO Club The Reverberation Appreciation Society 2012
4:24 PM		MX-80 Sound Man on the Move Hard Attack Island 1977
4:28 PM		Welt Star BUCHT N DOPPEL EP Under The Gun 2026
4:30 PM		The Dancing Cigarettes Pop Doormat 1980-1981: the Gulcher Recordings Gulcher 2002
4:37 PM		Set Break
4:37 PM		The Serfs Barbed Wire N Rarities, Vol. 2 FUTURE SHOCK RECORDINGS 2026
4:38 PM		Tough Age Patience of Mind Which Way Am I? Mint Records 2020
4:44 PM		The Invaders Latin Lips Spacing Out Duane Records 1970
4:47 PM		Tropical Fuck Storm Dunning Kruger's Loser Cruiser Fairyland Codex Fire Records 2025
4:51 PM		No Peeling Stationery N EP2 Feel It/Wrong Speed Records 2026
4:53 PM		Dead Bob Nothing Changes Everything N Nothing Changes Everything Wrong Records 2026
4:58 PM		Set Break
4:58 PM		Pell Mell Nothing Lies Still Long Interstate DGC 1995

Chat is archived.

I did not attend Bill Nace's show at Flemington DIY two nights ago. Was Kim Gordon the "special guest" referred to on the flyer?

oh fascinating! i haven't a clue but that would have maybe been awesome

They toured Europe last month and will tour the USA soon: https://brooklynvegan.com/kim-gordon-adds-new-shows-to-summer-tour-nyc-la-included/

Current exhibition: https://amant.org/exhibitions/297-folded-group-curated-by-bill-nace-and-kim-gordon

right on!! i'd love to see it

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS_BARXSjZWeknwfU0tLAy1z-T7ksLCOmxg1ODSWL6jeA&s=10

haha always

how's it going, guys?

Descartes A Kant!

such a cool song. i need more of them!

The tour ends at the See.Hear.Now festival in Asbury Park! https://seahearnowfestival.com

tickets moving fast! haha that's awesome

That was cool. Sounds a little Hanoi Rocks. But with some cheesy keyboards which was cool too

glad you liked it! very glammy

Appalachian Death Ride is a dope band name

it's even better that they are so NOT metal/stoner/doom.

haaaaaaa

I'll find any excuse to bring up Hanoi Rocks. Shame they're only remembered for one tragic thing. Good band.

Mom, I'm on Mars, I'm in jail on Mars, I like it here.

The Courettes are coming to Brooklyn Steel on October 22.

oooh go see it! and then gloat!

sprgrs gone summon Solomon

I agree w/Appalachian Death Ride name/genre.

Mcahete Matt: reminds me of the song "Hello Dad, I'm in Jail" by Was (not Was)

Hello Jen!

@mats I have it under good authority that Jon is currently in a van in West Virginia, but you never know!

Marcus yessssssssssss

@amy and also they are awesome! :)

@marcus hi!

PRAY FOR SOLOMON, GROUP PRAYER

is sprgrs pronounced some way I don't yet understand?

West by goddamn Virginia is prolly the #1 beautiful US state I've seen, outta 30+ states I been to

Jen haaaaaaa, no idea.

Heavens to Betsy!!

This band sounds like Small Factory

early Kill Rock Stars had some unhinged bands

i think of them all as part of the same family

@Mats - I may be from NJ, but always feel more at home in the best Virginia. Thank thank you.

Greetings fellow light runners

i never really listened to HtB but heard this song about a year ago and LOVED IT

whatsup @zach

@amy 💙

Editing, watching it rain, listening to wprb. Perfect combo

Amy Lee I love the WBGV. Some of the nicest people I've ever encountered, who take hardship gracefully and with humor.

Zach in the zone!

Hey Mats!

@zach now all you need are snacks!

Coffee is snacks

Zach we are putting snacks in the vacuum tube thing banks have to send you

SNACKIN'

SNACK ATTACK

Futurama promised me vaccuum tubes and all I got were stupid drones.

Zach haaaaaaa! Hauntology! Derrida and Mark Fisher knew what's up

Jetsons promised us utopia and all we got was automated license plate readers and microplastic brains

That was around the same time I saw Heavens to Betsy on a moderately attended multi-artist bill at Maxwell's. Just a few years later, there was no chance of me ever seeing Sleater-Kinney in such a humble setting.

David S nice! Good ol Maxwell's. I can never get mad at Hoboken for some reason.

maxwells and pier platters were always my reasons to love hoboken. moved there once for those reasons + PATH train to my job.

Kramer's Shimmy Disc catalog from the '90s was insane

I saw Kramer's group B.A.L.L. play at New Brunswick's Court Tavern.

hi jen!

hey @andrew!

@david i feel like everyone here who has ever seen a band in NJ has probably bumped into yuo at least once :}

Ha! Was just thinking same Jen!

David S nice! The band immortalized in a Dinosaur jr song stole from David Bowie

i loved pier platters and its little brother cd shop around the corner. would always try to go there between njt and PATH when going into the city back in the 1900s

"if I dont explain what you oughta know/you can tell me all about it at the next B.A.L.L. show" - Dino jr

Here for any and all B.A.L.L. jokes.

Mike L nice!

oh shit, was kim gordon at flemington diy? i live fairly close to there and had no idea

Spurgers! Like burgers. Sprgrs. Burger Records

ess burgers

when they bring the riff back but twice as fast

That's "The #7 With Extra Brown Sauce" of 80s punk bands.

Daaaaaaaaaad wots fer dinner. Dad: Sprgrs.

Mike L haaaaaa! BROWN, mang, brown

hahaha

Mike L just dropped a great wprb bumper sticker idea: That's "The #7 With Extra Brown Sauce" of 80s punk bands. WPRB.

I get bumpersticker ideas at least three times a day but most of them are inappropriate.

eggplant parm hoooooooooooagie

Mike L LOLOLOLOL

i am keeping a list. one day will make a million of them and spackle NJ.

also does ths MX 80 sound song not sound like a sonic youth cousin?

spackle punk, joining egg and chain punk

spackle punk is totally legit

oh chit the ShopRite in bumfuck NJ was playing Sonic Youth the other day, was wild

capitalism wins forever when Sonic Youth is ShopRite instore music. Adam Smith wasn't lyin

The best dancing cigarettes song!

hi @dan!

sonic youth in the shop rite is a great song title

Jen the new Dead Bob is DOPE

it's basically Nomeansno! The grandads need one last tour of the US

it's totally punk to rename yerself after a 50 year career as a canadian OG punk band

ShopRites differ in their musical formats. I suppose most only shuffle-repeat the typical supermarket soundtrack we all loathe, but a few of the stores are exceptions. I remember when I lived in Old Bridge, the ShopRite would play something like Mose Allison! A Brick Township resident told me its ShopRite once played Pink Floyd’s debut single “Arnold Layne”.

huwhat!! Arnold Layne is a dope song

Jen needs to play Arnold Layne

@mats it's so awesome, right?? speaking of

Flashback in Aisle 7, we got a flashback in Aisle 7

Ghost of Syd Barrett in aisle 9

pretty how cool how Dead Bob allows younger brother John Wright to carry the torch, he is the nicest guy and a shining example of the best of punk

still remember him mingling with the young punky crowd at the battleworm Phoenix Theater in Petaluma and beaming at all the NMN fans

*battleworn

I'm sure they're delighted he can keep the flame alive!

a NMN show was the closest I've come to a happy warzone. "a pint glass just flew right by my face at high velocity"

i hope dead bob tours the states again. they were fantastic

i can't WAIT for that

the first round was such a blast. I am betting that's why this record is so much more of a band vs just John solo.

Hanson Bros are awesome too. Wholesome "puck rock."

Hi. Do you have any Jayden Mont?

hello @james! i do not, I'm afraid!

Ok. That's fine

seeing them made me a fan of all the members' other bands - invasives, rong, ford pier, etc

sorry for that! thanks for listening though!

Have an nice day, great show btw

@andrew ooh you went deep, i should get on that!

Jen check out this nut shit Rosasolis found (one of the most amazing ears on a DJ on that one) https://phyllomedusa.bandcamp.com/track/annihilateaville It's like overdriven chicago math rock with...steel drums

oh cool i will!

thank you, @james! i'll add to my list

Andrew G good point! That Wright/Wrong Bros album that is basically nomeansno is so good too

hell yeah! phyllomedusa is fkin bonkers!

love all the suggestions of stuff for me to look into, you guys. super awesome.

andrew g all my training and life experience cannot prep me for Phyllomedusa. That dude is next level

has anyone seen tropical fuck storm yet? I have now missed them TWICE, and I am annoyed

that's a good one! also check out pigment vehicle - that was colin (dead bob's bass player)'s band from the 80s - 90s

haaaaaa the mighty TFS

writing it down!

andrew g, on it!

andrew g have you heard Removal? NMN opening band, instrumental punk, like Rush meets NMN

Dead Bob!! thanks Jen, RRL always a blast

nothin like the Wright Bros yellin and playin

thanks for being here, you guys! it's a good day

stay punky yall , things gittin really strange out there in da world

thank you wprbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb

ooh, removal sounds fun! one more: shovlhed. late 80s victoria hyper jazzy punk like nmn/victims family

Victim's Family reference at the closing buzzer.

thanks for continuing to run redlights every week

Jen we need an all-BC Canada show!

@andrew I love it more than anyone! will do it as long as the station will have me :)

@matt I did an all Canada show once a few years back! maybe BC specific is due

Dang I completely missed the show!

And, a BC specific show would be good!

until next week, @rob!

Hopefully!!