Night Flight's 40th Anniversary Rerun

A message from Host Pat Prescott and Night Flight creator Stuart S. Shapiro to kick off Night Flight's 40th Anniversary Special!

North Texas electronic band, Def Rain, released their self-titled debut in 2014, and returned in 2020 with the album EXIT, featuring material recorded between 2015 and 2017 that further broadened the band's ethereal, bass driven sound. Here’s their exclusive performance for Night Flight for our 40th Anniversary Event.

Ross Schlesinger, the leather-clad force behind the Nebraska-based queer, industrial dance project Plack Blague started exploring electronic music in 2001. Plack Blague began as “anti-dance music” and has developed to creating sprawling and aggressive electronic tracks on albums like 2017’s Night Trax, which owe as much to metal as it does disco and dance music. Her...Read More

The anonymous and prolific quartet, the Residents, have remained a fixture in the avant-garde music and art scene for decades, releasing over 60 full-length records. Rejecting individual identities, the group disguises itself for public appearances in giant eyeball masks and tuxedos, avoiding interacting with media and issuing all statements through the “Cryptic Cor...Read More

Let’s “Take Off” to Sacred Bones, an American indie label founded in 2007 in Brooklyn, New York by Caleb Braaten. Throughout much of the label's history the focus was on dark, experimental sounds, signing Braaten’s friends dark punk bands and reissuing 80s post-punk from acts like 13th Chime and The Cultural Decay. The label’s current roster represents a wide-range ...Read More

For Night Flight's 40th Anniversary, we look at Mexican Summer. The Brooklyn-based independent record label was founded by Keith Abrahamsson and Andres Santo Domingo, with a focus on experimental pop and specialty formats. Beginning the fall of 2008, Mexican Summer launched as a subscription service for limited edition vinyl, quickly snowballing into a full-fledged ...Read More

One night, in the summer of 1986, two larger than life avant-garde legends played together in a one-off show in Coney Island. The evening was full of cacophonous electronics and vocal experimentation punctuated by long silences, a Cage trademark. The original recording was initially edited, removing about 25 minutes of material. In 2016, independent label Modern Har...Read More