• Becoming Peter Ivers: A new collection from the “New Wave Theatre” host arrives later this year
• Birdie in the hand for life’s rich demand: Robert Dean Lurie’s “Begin the Begin” covers R.E.M.’s early formative years in Athens, Georgia
• “Other Side with Zabrecky”: A new séance series puts celebrities in contact with the spirit world
• Jane Wiedlin felt weird in Japan in this exclusive excerpt from Drew Fortune’s book “No Encore!”
• A Night Flight Exclusive: “How to Be a New Wave Video Slut,” starring Ann Magnuson as “Fallopia”
• Night Flight’s Stuart S. Shapiro’s inspiring book “Identifi Yourself: A Journey in Fuck You Creative Courage” is a humorous and poetic journey
• Night Flight partners up with Severin Films for more cult, horror, mondo & exploitation films
• Attention “cord cutters” and streaming fanatics: Night Flight Plus has been just been updated!
• Teens high on “the weed rooted in hell” go wild in the midnight movie classic “Reefer Madness”
• “J-Men Forever”: Rock ‘n’ Roll battles Muzak in Proctor & Bergman’s Night Flight cult classic

All posts tagged "1988"

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  Drop That Ghetto Blaster: S’Express went acid trippin’ in the Second Summer of Love, 1988

  We’re going back for another dose of Night Flight’s “Take Off to Acid Rock” — which originally aired on September 16, 1988, and you can now find streaming on Night Flight Plus — which is where we...

  • Posted September 10, 2019
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  Undead: Ex-Bauhaus frontman Peter Murphy and former band members’ videos on “Flash Tracks”

  We’re very happy to report that ex-Bauhaus frontman Peter Murphy — who suffered a heart attack on August 13, 2019, a little over a month after turning 62 years old — has made a full recovery and...

  • Posted September 2, 2019
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  In 1988, Full Force, Brooklyn’s family of fresh funk artists, backed up the Godfather of Soul

  Get ready to have your brains rocked with Full Force, “Brooklyn’s family of fresh funk artists,” as Pat Prescott tells us towards the end of this nearly hour-long vintage episode of “Night Flight” which first aired on...

  • Posted August 28, 2019
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  Peter Gabriel’s “modern primitive” “Shock the Monkey” elevated the music video to fine art

  We’re taking another look at our “Videos from the Attic,” which originally aired on May 6, 1988, where we found Peter Gabriel‘s “Shock the Monkey,” one of the instantly memorable clips from the early ’80s which helped...

  • Posted August 20, 2019
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  Tell your children not to hear my words: The PMRC pissing off Danzig resulted in “Mother”

  If you need a little “Metal In Your Face,” we can’t think of a better way to achieve total metalification than watching Night Flight’s “Take Off to Satanic Metal,” which features Danzig’s video for “Mother,” a surprising...

  • Posted August 8, 2019
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  “Zombie 3″: Big bloody buckets of goo-spewing mayhem that must be seen to be believed

  Here at Night Flight HQ, we’re always looking to expand our collection of zombie films, which is why we’re happy to announce we’ve added Godfather of Gore Lucio Fulci‘s final film in the popular horror sub-genre, Zombie...

  • Posted May 30, 2019
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  Tesco Vee hosts the pilot episode of the lo-fi thriftcore travelogue TV series “Way USA”

  In Way USA (1988) — the pilot episode for a lo-fi thriftcore travelogue TV series streaming in our Oddball Obscurities & Vintage Weirdos section on Night Flight Plus — the Meatmen’s potty-mouthed frontman Tesco Vee “sells his...

  • Posted May 27, 2019
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  Bianca Bob’s late nite TV junk food pop culture lament over the loss of “Red M&Ms”

  “On this next ‘Shoestring Theatre,’ Night Flight gets to the bottom of a very sticky problem,” says Night Flight’s announcer Pat Prescott in her introduction to Bianca Bob’s video art production “Red M&Ms.” “Don’t bum out, everything...

  • Posted April 25, 2019
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