• 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 "L.A. punk"

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  Gimme a club and I will have myself a riot: It’s the cops vs. punks in “Bad Religion: The Riot”

  Riots at L.A. punk shows in the late ’70s & early ’80s were a pretty regular thing, with violent LAPD bully-boys showing up in face-masked helmets and crackin’ skulls with their nightsticks (you can read about the...

  • Posted June 18, 2019
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  Red Wedding, the first openly gay underground L.A. rock band, on “New Wave Theatre” in 1982

  L.A.’s theatrical post-punk rock band Red Wedding — formed in 1981 by Michael Ely and Spider Taylor, whose decades-long relationship is one of the great L.A. love stories — were, in their own words, “the first (and...

  • Posted September 7, 2018
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  “Desperate Teenage Lovedolls”: Janet Housden tells Night Flight about her life as a Lovedoll

  David Markey’s campy 1984 cult hit Desperate Teenage Lovedolls follows the rise and fall of an all-female Hollywood punk band who fuck and kill their way to the top. Watch this low-budget 50-minute feature on Night Flight...

  • Posted July 9, 2018
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  I Just Want Some Skank: “The Best of Flipside: Vol. 1″ captures L.A.’s mid-80s punk rock scene

  The Best of Flipside: Volume 1 captures all the action and sweat-drenched aggro-energy of the L.A. punk rock scene in the mid-1980s. Watch it tonight, tomorrow or anytime you want in our Punk section, streaming over on...

  • Posted June 21, 2018
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  “Circle Jerks: My Career As A Jerk” chronicles the controversial but seminal L.A. punk band

  Filmmaker Dave Markey’s 2012 documentary Circle Jerks: My Career As A Jerk — now streaming in our recently-upgraded selection of newly-added titles over at Night Flight Plus — chronicles the controversial but seminal L.A. punk rock band...

  • Posted September 12, 2017
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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 was first produced as a VHS title in 1989 by the legendary horror movie maven John Russo (screenwriter, novelist and occasional actor and film director). It features a collection of horror-ific (and some horrific!) videos...

  • 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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