• Scott Lewis & Gary Winter tell us about their zany indie punk NYC/DC public access TV show
• Check out our new Reba Merrill Collection of Interviews on Night Flight Plus!
• Soundtrack your summer days & nights: Here’s our latest Night Flight Playlist on Spotify!
• Night Flight welcomes sex therapist Dr. Ruth and her ’80s TV show library to Night Flight Plus!
• Night Flight is proud to announce our new partnership with WeFunder, a popular equity crowdfunding platform & website
• “The Unheard Music” gives us a close look at L.A. punk band X’s personal lives in the early ’80s
• Rock Stories: “Wild at Heart” director David Lynch meets speed metal band Powermad
• Record Store Day, every day: You got it nicer at Licorice Pizza stores in the 70s and early 80s
• The Wu Tang Collection: The weirdest “Ku Fung Theater”-style mostly-Asian action flicks you’ll ever see
• Bullseye! Arrow Films’ exploitation, Italian horror, spaghetti westerns, drive-in sleaze & more, now on Night Flight Plus!

All posts tagged "1981"

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  “Fantastic Animation Festival” introduced revolutionary artists to rock ‘n’ roll audiences!

  Now available for streaming on Night Flight Plus is the influential 1977 Fantastic Animation Festival, the first widely-released collection of animated films, which became a hit with midnight movie lovers, was the first exposure for dozens of...

  • Posted May 26, 2017
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  “Lunch Wagon”: This 1981 sexploitation romp featured Playboy Playmates and Missing Persons

  From time to time, we here at Night Flight HQ like to remind ourselves just how different the 1980s were, like that time when L.A. mayor Tom Bradley proclaimed September 11, 1981, as “Lunch Wagon Day” as...

  • Posted February 22, 2017
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  “New York’s Alright If You Like Saxophones”: L.A. punk band Fear on “SNL” in ’81 & “New Wave Theatre” in ’82

  In this 1982 episode of “New Wave Theatre“ — watch it in its entirety now on Night Flight Plus — Lee Ving and his band Fear slam their way through “New York’s Alright If You Like Saxophones,”...

  • Posted October 5, 2016
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  The tale of the “Lost Tapes”: The Dead Kennedys’ abandoned first recording session for “In God We Trust, Inc.”

  In God We Trust, Inc.: The Lost Tapes captures the first attempt by the Dead Kennedys to record songs, in 1981, for a 12″ EP meant to acknowledge and showcase the influence of the fast-paced and thrashy...

  • Posted March 11, 2016
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