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All posts tagged "L.A. punk"

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  “The Unheard Music” gives us a close look at L.A. punk band X’s personal lives in the early ’80s

  1985’s X: The Unheard Music — a truly low-budget labor of love, filmed over a period of several years during the early ’80s by director W.T. “Bill” Morgan — is one of the best music documentaries ever...

  • Posted May 23, 2017
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  “Horror Rock”: Horror movie maven John Russo’s 1989 music video compilation featured the clown princes of L.A. punk, the Dickies

  Horror Rock — now streaming over on our Night Flight Plus channel — was first produced as a VHS title in 1989 by the legendary horror movie maven John Russo (screenwriter, novelist and occasional actor and film...

  • Posted February 2, 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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  “History Lesson Part 1: Punk Rock in Los Angeles in 1984″: We jam econo with D. Boon & the Minutemen

  In the spring of 1984, teenage punk enthusiast Dave Travis began videotaping some of his favorite L.A. punk bands at their gigs, including the Meat Puppets (from Phoenix, Arizona, actually), the Minutemen, Twisted Roots and Redd Kross,...

  • Posted September 1, 2016
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  Under The Big Black Sun: Night Flight talks to Tom DeSavia about the late 70s L.A. punk scene

  The recently-published Under The Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk (Da Capo Press) — written by longtime friends John Doe (co-founder of the seminal L.A. punk band, X) and Tom DeSavia (Head of Creative...

  • Posted May 3, 2016
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  Goin’ Wild in the Streets: Remembering the Circle Jerks’ “Group Sex” photo shoot

  For a few short years at the end of the 70s and the beginning of the 80s — from the fall of 1978 until the fall of 1981 — the Marina Del Rey Skatepark was the ground...

  • Posted April 15, 2016
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  “New Wave Theatre” returns to Night Flight: The early ’80s cable TV show focused on L.A. punk, hardcore, and art rock bands

  Now, on our new Night Flight Plus channel, we’re offering up a “Best of New Wave Theatre” show that was previously released on VHS in two volumes by Rhino Video. This is the very same show, hand-picked...

  • Posted April 13, 2016
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  “D.U.I.”: L.A. artist Spike Stewart and musician Brad Laner revisit a rarely seen mid-80s art-punk-noise documentary

  In the early 80s in Los Angeles, filmmaker and artist Spike Stewart, his wife, co-producer Cathleen Doyle, and their camera crew (which included both Stewart and Doyle) lensed some of the bands from L.A.’s experimental art-punk noise...

  • Posted January 15, 2016
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