• L.A.’s Possum Dixon remember Ric Ocasek, who produced their “New Sheets” album in 1998
• 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!
• “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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  “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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  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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  The Screamers: The Great Lost Band of the First Wave of L.A. Punk

  Being ahead of your time can be a risky career move. Take the case of the Screamers. When punk rock hit Los Angeles in the mid-1970s, there was no band bigger than the Screamers. They could sell...

  • Posted September 14, 2015
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  45 Grave on “New Wave Theatre”: Happy birthday today to Don Bolles!

  On the occasion of Don Bolles’s birthday, we’re sharing this performance of his band 45 Grave doing their song “Black Cross” on “New Wave Theater” back in the 80s. Bolles, a member of at least two legendary...

  • Posted July 30, 2015
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