New Arrivals: Night Flight Short Cuts

With their signature deadpan delivery, this new Night Flight Short Cut captures Devo not just as a band, but as a fully realized creative apparatus. Taken from Night Flight's 1982 interview, the group outlines its theory of Devolution spanning technology, biology, and politics in pointedly postmodern terms: “There’s no center, there’s no firm issues or something hol...Read More

In this Night Flight Short Cut, Jon Bon Jovi appears in a candid interview and press conference, reflecting on a historic Soviet performance at the end of the Cold War, the scale of stadium rock, and bringing fans into the studio to keep things fresh. “We don’t want to go back to that shoe store routine.”

From a chance meeting in a New Jersey music store to club shows honed with advice from hometown champion Jon Bon Jovi, Skid Row trace their rise in this Night Flight Short Cut. This exclusive episode also captures Sebastian Bach in a late-night hotel fever dream, reading fan mail and air moshing.

“The first piece of fan mail I ever wrote was to George Michael!” Writing songs since childhood and breaking through as a teenager, Debbie Gibson reflects on a rise that felt anything but overnight in this original Night Flight interview.

From his early days chasing a record deal to the breakthrough of American Fool, John Cougar reflects on a career shaped as much by persistence as luck in this Night Flight Short Cut.

Aboard his half-renovated boat, Great White frontman Jack Russell holds court in a self-contained world of fishing stories and blacked-out interiors before this Night Flight Short Cut takes us to a Capitol Records party where the band performs a energetic set.

Steve Winwood in conversation with Lisa Robinson reflects on a period of solitary studio work as a product of process rather than persona, pushing back on rumors of a brooding recluse. This Night Flight Short Cut finds the Traffic legend reflecting on his musical process and the balance between tradition and new technology: “Technology is not to blame… it’s how it’s used.”

In this Night Flight Short Cut, Steve Miller reflects on the unexpected global success of “Abracadabra” and traces a career doing things on his own terms with an eye toward worldwide touring and cultural exchange.