Welcome back to Night Flight! Tonight’ we give you over 3 hours of original “As Aired” programming. That’s right, our "As Aired" selections from 1983-4 return with all of the classic Night Flight segments including Video Profiles, Interviews, Film Galleries, Cartoon Classics, and more. This episode features profiles on Rolling Stones, The Psychedelic Furs, surreal 80s video art and a strange New Wave love story called White Lies from director Marion Cajori starring a young Willem Dafoe with stellar music by Peter Gordon. We’re all but certain this doesn’t exist anywhere else, so dig in and enjoy!

In this new Night Flight Supercut, tracks from Weird Nightmare’s second LP, Hoopla, collide with cult moments from our streaming library, warping Alex Edkins' (Metz) fuzzy nostalgia with camp, cut-up animation, a trampoline kill, and everyone’s favorite zombie, Bub. Edited by John Mark Lapham.

Amen Dunes’ Sub Pop debut, Death Jokes, sees the artist take a sharp left turn to the more electronica and rave-influenced sounds of his youth.

Sean Ragon’s dark, post-punk neofolk band Cult of Youth, began as a solo project with the release 2008’s A Stick to Bind, a Seed to Grow. Recruiting a supporting band, Ragon expanded the group’s sound on its 2011 self-titled Sacred Bones debut. This would be followed by 2012’s chamber-pop like Love Will Prevail, then 2014s Final Days.

Born and raised in Bucharest, Romania, Borusiade aka Miruna Boruzescu started DJing in 2002 as one of the very few female DJs in the city’s emerging alternative clubbing scene.

Altres are an electronic band from Dundee, Scotland originally formed in 1983. With influences ranging from Faust to Philip Glass, Altres’s unique brand of instrumental, improvised electronic music was all recorded live, with no overdubs.

Warped tape loops, aging VHS home-movie samples, and processed vocals tinged with harmonic specters from Body of Light on Dais Records.

American singer/songwriter and artist Marissa Nadler’s creates a fusion of folk, gothic americana and ethereal dream pop that calls back to traditional country and folk music with aspects of indie rock, black metal and experimental music. In her over 15 year career she has released dozens of records including 6 full-lengths with Sacred Bones.

Xymox, later known as Clan of Xymox, was founded in the Netherlands, in 1983 by Ronny Moorings (Vocals, Guitars, Synthesizers) and Anka Wolbert (Vocals, Bass). In 2014, Dark Entries reissued the band's pre-4AD EP, Subsequent Pleasures, a unique fusion of lush psychedelia and dark, angular atmospherics.

Moscow natives Dima Pantyushin and Sasha Lipsky create a musical landscape that bounces between the terrestrial and divine in an “immaculate synth-pop ecosystem” on their debut album Peshekhod.

Tonight we take off to indie label Drag City, home of artists such as Cory Hanson, Prison, Edith Frost and Dean Spun.

“Take Off” to Chicago-based independent label Drag City featuring music videos from Bill Callahan, Ty and Denée Segall, Circuit des Yeux and Smog.

Cellist Oliver Coates's "ambient braindance" compositions.

“Take Off” to independent label Dais Records featuring music videos from Death Bells, SPICE, Choir Boy, and Death of Lovers.

Alasdair Roberts is a Scottish folk musician based in Glasgow who has released a number of albums under his name as well as the stage moniker, Appendix Out. Roberts is also noted for his frequent collaborations with other musicians, writers and filmmakers.

Art rock outfit of multi-instrumentalist Graeme Jefferies.

Spice shares the authoritative drive of Jawbreaker, J Church, and Fugazi, but set in their own world of unrest.

Dylan Moon is a Los Angeles musician who debuted in 2019 with Only the Blues. His second full-length, Option Explore, is a collection of clever, colorful songs filtered through frequencies, timbres, and dreams discovered and discarded while its maker shifts from one sub-genre to the next.

“Take Off” to Chicago-based independent label Drag City featuring music videos from Joanna Newsom, Palace, Silver Jews and White Fence.

Folk artist signed to Sub Pop records. Featuring 2019's "Nowhere" and more.

LA-based noise pop duo No Age brought the ethos of early punk and hardcore music into the 21st-century with their stripped down DIY style that taped together their spare drum and guitar riffs with passionate vocals and a few playful samples. Their origins playing energetic live shows at all-ages venues around Los Angeles would lay the groundwork for the band’s future output for the next 15 years.

Patrick Cowley was an innovative American disco producer and composer originating from Buffalo, NY. Best known for his production on Sylvester’s explosive hit “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)” as well as his own chart topping dance tracks.

Soft-focus sounds from painter and an ambient composer Tor Lundvall on Dais Records.

Ty Segall has made filthy, distorted rock n roll for much of his prolific career. His 2024 album Three Bells takes us into “a land nearly beyond song,” pushing his songwriting and sound further than ever before.

Bill Callahan's new album YTI⅃AƎЯ arrives via Drag City on October 14th, '22. Night Flight's official video profile now includes the visual for lead single Coyotes, a so-called "lyric video" with a dark twist. After years of releasing acclaimed lofi folk-rock albums under the name Smog, Bill Callahan has been recording and releasing music under his own name since 2007. This critically-acclaimed work has mixed his largely acoustic sound with elements of gospel, soul and pop.

Zsela is a singer-songwriter whose 2024 debut album is a raw, versatile record from an exciting young artist.

“There’s a strange romanticism to going a little bit crazy and playing the piano to yourself and singing into the night." Singer/songwriter Cate Le Bon began her career collaborating with fellow Welsh musicians Gruff Rhys and Richard James before releasing her first EP, the Welsh language Looking in the Eyes of a Borrowed Horse in 2008. In 2019 Cate Le Bon signed with Mexican Summer for her fifth album, Reward, released to critical acclaim. Here's the video for "Home To You."

Atlanta, Georgia post-punk trio Omni. Featuring 2019's "Skeleton Key" and more.

Formed in 2013, RVNG Intl. has consistently released compelling sounds in the form of extravagant reissues, daring new signings and rising avant-garde stars.

“Take Off” to independent label Dais Records featuring music videos from ADULT., Choir Boy, Body of Light and Getting The Fear.

Singer Cory Hanson returns with 2023’s Western Cum, which combines conventional country with an eclectic mix of prog, balladry and nu-hardcore.

Drew McDowall's work mines the hallucinatory spaces that exist between reality and celestial otherness.

Inspired by Buddhist tales and set to the tune of Pauline Anna Strom’s astral electronic soundscapes; Ether Antenna is a short film following the journey of some 10 robot characters through Nepal. Fusing spirituality with robotics this cybernetic tale exploits humanity’s fascination with technology and religion. Designed and built on residency at RAN (the Robotics Association of Nepal), all robot characters were developed to act specifically as puppets and carry out precise interactions through different scenes and scenarios. The film begins as robots are birthed from a sacred tree into the pure streams of water at Muktinath and follows their journey toward the polluted rivers of Kathmandu.

American singer Chrystabell reunites with legendary director and musician David Lynch for “Cellophane Memories,”a haunting and atmospheric new collection of songs for Night Flight indie label partner Sacred Bones. We're featuring two Lynch-directed videos for the project and a Super 8 video directed by Eden Tijerina in this exclusive Video Profile.

Texas-born musician and actor Caleb Landry Jones makes psychedelic music that “reaches into the cosmic realm of imagination.”

Minimal electronic abstraction and '80s Japanese-inspired pop from Kate NV.

Wand’s Cory Hanson rides into the high desert on a glossy melody through lustrous mists of instrumentation: acoustic, wah-electric and steel guitars, acoustic and electric drums. Pale Horse Rider explores myths and truths of a country on the way down, viewed through a deep-focus lens trained on the city from the deserts on the east; a terminus of unoccupied residential parks and streets fading into craggy footpaths to nowhere, where our passage is seen as diligent, ephemeral and grotesque by turns, forgiven and made beautiful again by the sound. Directed by The Coconut Brothers Liquid Light Projections by The Mad Alchemist Liquid Light Show Music & Sound FX by Dr. Coconut Filmed by Casey Hanson, Asal Shahindoust, Dr. Coconut and Keith Ballard Live Sound Engineered by Zac Hernandez

Tiziano Popoli is an Italian composer known for his “unusual musical meshing of minimalism and instrumental pop.” Burn the Night / Bruciare la Notte: Original Recordings, 1983–1989 collects scores, soundtracks and commissions that blossomed out of the artist’s independent explorations and collaborations in and around Bologna, Italy.

Tempers is a New York based synth-pop duo whose rigorous electronic production is paired with instinctual, unleashed vocals. The pair released their debut album Services on the cult German imprint Aufnahme + Wiedergabe and quickly became staples in both European and American synth-pop scenes.

A taut and twisty '80s crime drama from writer/director Jess Franco? The second of his two filmed-in-Spain-but-with-Bangkok-exteriors productions is seriously fun and full of surprises: When a teenage heiress is kidnapped from her boyfriend's yacht, it will pull the trigger on a lethal spree of evil playboys, kung fu killers, beauty salon torture devices, the hard-boiled private eye known only as Panama Joe and a deliciously ferocious Lina Romay as the ruthless mastermind behind it all.

Brooklyn-based noise-punk band, The Men was formed in 2008 by Nick Chiericozzi, and Mark Perro, later adding drummer Rich Samis and bassist Kevin Faulkner to the lineup. Drawing on a myriad of influences including new wave, country, psych, and surf, The Men released their ambitious 2014 album, Tomorrow’s Hits before returning to their roots with the confrontational and abrasive noise rock LP Devil Music. Their most recent release, Mercy, arrived in 2020.

Today we’re looking at DAIS Records, whose roster of emerging and influential artists include AURAGRAPH, Cold Gawd, and Body of Light.

Formed in 2003, Brooklyn based indie band Crystal Stilts has cultivated a myriad of influences over the last decade and half playing and recording together. In 2011 they made their Sacred Bones debut with the EP Radiant Door, following it up with the soul and folk influenced album Nature Noir in 2013.

“Take Off” to independent label Dais Records featuring music videos from Riki, Private World, SRSQ, and SPICE.

Fernando Perdomo born Fernando Jose Perdomo on August 17, 1980, is an American musician and producer. He is best known as one of the guitarists in the acclaimed music documentary, Echo in the Canyon, where he backed up Jakob Dylan, Fiona Apple, Beck. Nora Jones, Regina Spektor, Brian Wilson and Cat Power. He is currently a member of The Dave Kerzner Band, the highly regarded progressive rock ensemble that performs annually on the sold-out Cruise to the Edge. It was aboard a floating city in the middle of the Caribbean where I first encountered Fernando. He was laying down some mind-blowing riffs on the windy outdoor pool stage. I approached him after the set wearing a rare Kate Bush “Cloudbusting” shirt. “That’s the best Kate tee I’ve ever seen!” he shouted. “You and I are gonna be friends.” The session here was conducted in his cabin on the 2025 CTTE where he lent his formidable chops to three different groups.

Suzanne Doucet got her start as a successful pop-star in Germany before moving to the US and embarking on her new-age career, releasing over 40 records in the states.

Seattle rock band La Luz finds their lineup and their sound in flux on their latest record News of the Universe, allowing them to explore new sonic territory.

The frontman of slowcore giants Low branches out on his own with a collection of original and eclectic songs that show him grappling with the death of his long-time collaborator Mimi Parker.

Danish punk stalwarts Iceage formed as a group in 2008, fronted by Ellias Bender Rønnefelt with guitarist Johan Suurballe Wieth, Jakob Tvilling Pless on bass and drummer Dan Kjær Nielsen. Known for their abrasive but ever developing sound, their most recent record Seek Shelter arrived in May of 2021, their fifth full-length and first for Mexican summer. Recorded over a 12 day period in a run down studio in Lisbon, Seek Shelter features production by Peter Kember, aka Sonic Boom, and incorporates a gospel choir, seemingly signaling the group’s slide away from the nihilism of it’s earlier records in favor of resigned but comforting melodies.

Australian indie rockers Girl and Girl make their Sub Pop debut with tuneful and grandiose songs about the struggles of mental health in the modern world.

In early 1980s Finland, Belaboris were in their own peculiar, undefinable no-woman’s-land between the Finnish Futu and Gothic scenes.

Michele Mercure is an electronic artist who has made music for film, television, dance and theater. Her “arresting dream-music” demonstrates a “transportive attitude within and beyond the limited sound recording medium.”

Today we’re looking at independent record label Sacred Bones, including music videos from Lust for Youth, Lathe of Heaven and Khanate.

Dean Hurley is a sound and music supervisor who has worked with Daivd Lynch and Zola Jesus. Gloria de Oliveira is a multidisciplinary visual artist and musician who has composed for the theater and for London Fashion week. Their collaboration Oceans of Time combines impressionistic synths, shimmering guitars, and ethereal sonics in a beautiful dream-pop synthesis.

Horse Lords is Owen Gardner, Andrew Bernstein, Max Eilbacher, and Sam Haberman, an instrumental quartet formed in 2010. Its music is defined by repetition and complexity, “humanized with exploration and passion.”

The late Portland, Oregon composer Ernest Hood is known for his landmark 1975 album Neighborhoods, which combines field recordings with Hood’s synthesizer and zither playing.

Wand’s Cory Hanson rides into the high desert on a glossy melody through lustrous mists of instrumentation: acoustic, wah-electric and steel guitars, acoustic and electric drums. bass and piano. Pale Horse Rider explores myths and truths of a country on the way down, viewed through a deep-focus lens trained on the city from the deserts on the east; a terminus of unoccupied residential parks and streets fading into craggy footpaths to nowhere, where our passage is seen as diligent, ephemeral and grotesque by turns, forgiven and made beautiful again by the sound. Directed by The Coconut Brothers Liquid Light Projections by The Mad Alchemist Liquid Light Show Music & Sound FX by Dr. Coconut Filmed by Casey Hanson, Asal Shahindoust, Dr. Coconut and Keith Ballard Live Sound Engineered by Zac Hernandez

Seattle-based grunge foursome Mudhoney. Featuring 1991's "Good Enough" and more.

Latvian composer and artist Sign Libra's Sea of Islands and Sea Of Nectar.

Jeremiah Sand was the charismatic leader of the Children of the New Dawn, a cult that descended upon a California recording studio in the 1970s to create Sand’s ultimate, psychedelic masterpiece. Not much is known of what transpired at the recording studio where these sessions took place, except that one night, Sand awoke the studio owner in the middle of the night at gunpoint and forced him to hide the master tapes in a lockbox until he returned. Decades passed and Sand was never heard from again, but in 2018 wildfires revealed a box in the ruins of the studio that contained a short film, esoteric artwork, and 50 year old album, Lift It Down.

Chicago-baed electronic / dark industrial duo HIDE on Dais Records.

Suzy Poling's latest record uses sounds and samples collected from the Vintage Synthesizer Museum in Oakland, CA.

Slowcore pioneers Low on Sub Pop Records. Featuring music from 2018's "Double Negative" and more.

Molchat Doma (translated as “Houses Are Silent”), was founded in 2017 in Minsk, Belarus, with a dark yet danceable sound that stands at the intersection of post-punk, new-wave and synth-pop. Their second LP Etazhi (meaning “Floors”) became a global phenomenon, leading Sacred Bones to sign the band in early 2020.

Tonight we take off to Sub Pop, one of the most legendary names in alternative music, with songs by Bully, J. Mascis, and Washed Out.

A Shoegaze pedigree with smoky compulsions of post-punk and no-wave influences.

The son of a truck stop preacher, raised and home-schooled in a “super religious family” (his own words), the acoustic guitarist and soundscape composer from Amarillo, Texas, first record for Mexican Summer arrived in 2021.

Sub Pop-signed Bully from "Take Off" to Indie Labels. Featuring "Guess There," and more.

Sic Alps was a San Francisco-based lofi garage rock band started by Matt Hartman and Mike Donnovan, who met on tour with their previous bands in the 90s. The group drew as equally from noise pop as they did from art rock luminaries the Velvet Underground.

Welcome to the video profile for Brooklyn-based independent record label Sacred Bones, whose roster of artists includes John Carpenter, Hillary Woods and Constant Smiles.

São Paulo-born multi-instrumentalist Sergio Sayeg, aka Sessa, releases his sophomore album and Mexican Summer debut Estrela Acesa. The enchanting album evokes a "deep reverence for the rich musical heritage of Brazil," according to label Mexican Summer and the artist's exclusive Night Flight Video Profile is streaming now with two whimsical videos featuring a combination of hand-drawn traditional animation and rotoscoped performance footage.  

Kiwi oddball Connan Hosford, better known as Connan Mockasin, made a name for himself in the New Zealand psych scene in the early 2000s playing in a group called Connan & the Mockasins, known for their trippy, bluesy and whimsical indie pop. His most recent album, Jassbusters, arrived in 2018 on Mexican Summer accompanied by his absurdist film Bostyn ‘n Dobsyn.

Zola Jesus is the decade-long solo project of Nika Roza Danilova, featuring dark, haunting lyrics and mesmerizing and ever changing electronic production. Danilova’s earliest output was characterized by noisy, lofi percussion and synths paired with her airy, ascendant vocal. She would quickly begin moving away from this sound, instead opting to create her own interpretations of pop music, progressively experimenting with cleaner production and working with artists like M83 and Prefuse 73. A longtime friend of Sacred Bones, her most recent release for the label, Okovi, arrived in 2017.

Industrial punk band Pop. 1280, named after a pulpy Jim Thompson story about a corrupt, deceptive and murderous Texas lawman, was founded by Chris Bug and Ivan Lip as a method of exploring their darker, somewhat sinister musical ideas. Their first song, “Bedbugs” would lay the groundwork for their next release, an EP called The Grid, which they followed up with the full-length The Horror, both on Sacred Bones. Their haunting, guitar heavy sound would slowly give way to more refined harmonies and clean polished keys, especially on their grim 2020 album Way Station.

The sonic world Helado Negro builds an aura vivid enough to be seen.

Sub Pop's Father John Misty, the alter-ego of multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Josh Tillman. Featuring the 25-minute album trailer for 2017's "Pure Comedy."

High Vis, led by enigmatic front person Graham Sayle, play “aggressive, gripping, and artful punk” that is sonically beyond the parameters of any single genre or scene. On their second album Blending, they bring a more introspective focus to their political lyrics.

“Take Off” to Seattle-based independent label Sub Pop featuring music videos from Chai, Mudhoney, clipping., and Ya Tseen.

Borghesia is an electronic music group from Slovenia formed in 1982. Borghesia is one of the most successful bands from former Yugoslavia known for turning sexual freedom into an important political issue by creating the New Slovenian Art scene.

"Syrupy, space-case dance music” from electronic duo Blondes.

An Evolutionary Music (Original Recordings: 1972 - 1979) compiles unreleased recordings from the archives of multiversal artist Ariel Kalma. Concerned as much with musicality as spiritual facility, Kalma’s work vibrates aside fellow travelers along the great rainbow in curved air of the 1970s avant-garde. Directed by Matthew McGuigan

Axis: Sova began as the experimental psych-rock solo project of Chicago artist Brett Sova, who wrote and recorded much of the bands early output before settling on a full lineup. Since 2018 the band has consisted of Sova with Tim Kaiser on guitar and Jeremy Freeze on bass.

Breadwoman & Other Tales are the collected recordings of a language arising. It is the sound and document of Anna Homler divining speech, lyrical fragments, and melody for music composed, mixed, and engineered by Steve Moshier.

Oliver Coates is a British cellist, composer and producer who has played with Thom Yorke and appeared on scores for Paul Thomas Anderson. His 2020 album skins n slime sees him leading “an impassioned performance of strings through viscous, synthetic modulation.”

Father John Misty, the alter ego of songwriter Josh Tillman, embarks on his sixth album with a more rock-influenced edge.

Sub-Pop signed horror-core act clipping. Featuring music from 2019's concept album "There Existed an Addiction to Blood" and more.

Pennsylvania post-hardcore band Pissed Jeans on Sub Pop Records. Featuring Lydia Lunch produced "The Bar Is Low" and more.

Alan Vega, visual artist and frontman of punk pioneer duo Suicide, passed away in 2016 after a 50 year career in art and music. In addition to his musical output, Vega’s sculpture work gave him a notorious reputation in the New York art world, later opening a 24-hour gallery space that would go on to serve as an early venue for bands like the New York Dolls, Television and Blondie.

Experimental hip hop group Shabazz Palaces makes a foray into “final-days funk” on Exotic Birds of Prey, an unsettling exploration of the coldest and darkest edges of their sound.

Red Axes are the Tel Aviv-based electronic duo of Dori Sadovnik and Niv Arzi whose sound is heavily influenced by the music of post-punk and new wave bands from the 80s.

Dublin musician and former JJ72 bassist Hilary Woods returned to music after over a decade of hiatus in 2014 with melodic and airy keyboard-based songs inspired by the cinematic works of auteurs like Wong Kar-Wai and Chris Marker. Expanding on these ideas and incorporating more atmospheric electronic sounds, her full-length solo debut Colt arrived on Sacred Bones in 2018, followed by 2020’s Birthmarks.

Institute, the Austin based punk outfit founded by Moses Brown and Arak Avakian of Glue, Adam Cahoon of Wiccans, exploded onto the Texas punk scene in 2013 with lyrics of personal struggles and a dark and streamlined sound that they would continue to hone over the years. Their debut full-length, Catharsis, arrived on Sacred Bones in 2015 and featured cleaner production with broader influences, expanding on their anarchic post-punk sound.

From Nursery to Misery were three teenagers who grew up together on the same street in Basildon Essex. Formed in 1987, the band was comprised of vocalists (and identical twins) Gina and Tina Fear, along with keyboard player and producer Lee Stevens.