Midnight Music Playout Playlist

Salvador Cresta checks in with lo-fi guitar wrangler Green Sahara, AKA Avery Chandler. From his Roland Jazz Chorus to his trusty Tascam, Avery shows us the tools he uses to build his fuzzy and blurry experimental pop.

"Take Off To Animation" takes a colorful look at the use of animation in music video over the previous few years in styles ranging from experimental camera technique to 'Saturday morning cartoon'. Many of the videos compiled for this episode first became well-known due to their repeat exposure on Night Flight. Bona fide Night Flight classics here include Tom Tom Clu...Read More

Mind your head. Salvador Cresta speaks with Brooklyn based producer Zach Phillips of Fievel Is Glauque, Blanche Blanche Blanche, Perfect Angels—and many more projects—about touring with Stereolab.

One of Night Flight's most revered segments returns on Night Flight Plus this weekend. This episode of The Video Artist follows Stephen Beck, who creates abstract analog visuals with his direct video synthesizer. Beck was an inventor, video artist and writer who was a pioneer in the video synthesis medium. "My interest is using the video synthesizer as a composition...Read More

Zully Adler of Banana Head joins Salvador Cresta to discuss his cult cassette label Goaty Tapes. An explorer of global DIY music culture, Zully’s tapes demonstrate his care for artifacts from artists like Discount Heaven House Band, The Savage Young Taterbug, and more.

Now available for streaming on Night Flight Plus is the influential 1977 "Fantastic Animation Festival," the first widely-released collection of animated films, which became a hit with midnight movie lovers, was the first exposure for dozens of respected animators, and spawned like-minded follow-up compilations for decades to follow. It premiered on television as on...Read More

How does Utah-based artist Mickey Miles make his psychedelic pop cartoons? He explains today on Midnight Music Review in the Attic, exploring his videos for John Cale of the Velvet Underground, ‘70s pop-style songwriter Alex Izenberg, and music blog New Commute. He also riffs on the influence of psychedelic ’70s artists Vince Collins and Ralph Bakshi.

A visually sumptuous adaptation of Sándor Petőfi’s famed 1845 poem, and the first-ever feature length animated film produced in Hungary, János Vitéz recounts the exploits of strapping young solider Johnny Corncob and his mythic quest to be reunited with Iluska, the great love of his life. Directed by legendary Hungarian animator Marcell Jankovics’ (Son of the White ...Read More

From freak folk to computer music, Montague, Massachusetts-based artist Kurt Weisman creates strange, beguiling songs. Take a walk through Weisman’s history and learn everything about where he’s heading these days with your travel guide Salvador Cresta.

Artist, painter, animator, and musician John Andrews joins Salvador Cresta in the attic to share details of his process, discuss his videos for Woods, Cut Worms, and others, how to utilize out of date art supplies, and The Sun Ra Arkestra’s breakfast routine.