PLAYOUT 2.0 BATCH 7: JUNE 19TH

While the rest of America slept, DIY filmmaker/musician Giuseppe Andrews (a one-time teen actor in Independence Day and Detroit Rock City) has made over 30 experimental features with titles like Doily’s Summer of Freak Occurrences, Trailer Town and Utopia Blues. Set in some demented alternate universe (i.e. Ventura, California), they are populated by real-life alcoh...Read More

Christopher Munch’s boldly original debut, THE HOURS AND TIMES (1992), is a fictional account of what might have happened in April 1963, when John Lennon and Beatles manager Brian Epstein traveled to Barcelona for an extended weekend getaway. In the four days they spend together, the suave Epstein (played by David Angus) and the provocative Lennon (Ian Hart in his f...Read More

Welcome to Night Flight’s video profile of the clown princes of Glam Slam Metal Rock: Poison. Pat Prescott explains how the Brett Michaels fronted outfit went from an LA club scene staple to platinum recording artist. Featuring interviews with drummer Rikki Rockett, guitarist CC DeVille, and all the POISON music you need!

“In 1977, the Sex Pistol’s Johnny Rotten was the most famous man in Rock 'n' Roll…” Pat Prescott tells us, “then he went to work on Public Image Ltd… a group that called everything to question.” A cadre of PiL’s music videos and candid interview segments with Lydon are the backbone of this epic episode. Let John's disdain for music industry and all it’s hypocrisy,...Read More

"All my life growing up as a kid, I either wanted to be in a Rock band or a baseball player," Johnny Ramone tells us from the dugout of tonight’s special episode on the Ramones. If Rock is a religion, then the Ramones are the high priests of Punk, and in this treasure from the archive, Night Flight provides an in-depth profile of the band with video excerpts from th...Read More

This video profile on Simple Minds features backstory on the Scottish act and multiple videos throughout the bands career arc. Night Flight mines the video vault for select cuts from the Pretenders.

How did I get here? Night Flight takes on Talking Heads in this brilliant profile, originally aired September 20th, 1986 and now streaming on Night Flight Plus. "In the 1970s, a group called Talking Heads became staples on the Bowery music scene..." explains Pat Prescott. The Heads’ fused artistic concepts with rock, relying on the tight structure and quirky lyrics...Read More

The segment is guided by a candid Radio 1990 interview with Robert Smith about the inspiration for the "Close To Me" video, fame and more. In true Night Flight fashion, the British band's "ever-evolving visual image" is explored through director Tim Pope's videos throughout the piece.

Welcome to tonight’s new original arrival: a 1988 special profile of The Traveling Wilbury’s. The a British–American supergroup consisting of Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty, gets the complete Night Flight treatment with a look at the groups signature songs and individual output from the 80s.

Good evening high-flying fans, and welcome to Night Flight. Tonight, we share another edition of our distinguished Video Profile series with Van Halen. Wherever you stand on Sammy Hagar v. Diamond Dave, you’ll love tonight’s special episode, with videos and concert footage from both. The group's winning combination of charismatic frontmen, Eddie’s phenomenal guitar ...Read More

Welcome back to Night Flight. Tonight we celebrate the incredible life and career of Aretha Franklin with our 1987 Video Profile of the legendary artist. "She was the daughter of a preacher and by the late 60's the undisputed Queen of Soul" - Pat Prescott. With over a dozen million-selling albums, Aretha forever fused the passion of Gospel, the sensuality of R&B, a...Read More

One of the most memorable episodes of Night Flight canon and the purest example of the original series' commitment to avant-garde music and experimental video. Stream the official Video Profile of musical groundbreaker trio, Art Of Noise: The low profile, high tech wiz’s of British music. A production trio with whose unique sonic approach defined the advent of sampl...Read More

In 1979, Sara Dallin and Siobhan Fahey were students at the London College of Fashion and Keren Woodward worked at the BBC. The flatmates decided to get together and with the help of their downstairs neighbors former Sex Pistols Paul Cook and Steve Jones and their friends Fun Boy Three, they formed a band and called it Banarama. "Banarama’s trademark is a happy go l...Read More

Night Flight profiles rock’s 'rude boy' Billy Idol in this classic segment from 1985. “I don’t want to see the no flabby, boring old Billy Idol trying to be what he was when he was 21… I’m young, I need to move about.” he tells Night Flight in an excellent, candid interview, in which he talks about the role of New York City on his art, how he views his critics, and...Read More

Welcome to Night Flight's 1986 exclusive video profile of Black Sabbath. "They were the most successful and controversial metal band of the mid ‘70s. Hated by critics, adored by their fans, Black Sabbath mixed a taste for the occult with bone crushing volume,” Pat Prescott proclaims. This special episode features Night Flight’s iconic interviews with both Ozzy and T...Read More

Queens-based experimental rock duo Blues Control, composed of Russ Waterhouse on guitars and electronics and keyboardist Lea Cho, established themselves in NY with exciting live shows and a series of self released cassettes and vinyl.

"This sassy rocker's radioactive red hair, junk shop chic, up-beat personality and pitch perfect vocals make her one of the hottest performers of the '80s," Pat Prescott tells us. Tune in tonight for our 1985 profile of Cyndi Lauper, featuring music videos and history in true Night Flight style.

Tonight, we return to 1994 for a Night Flight syndication episode covering the rise of iconic synth band Depeche Mode. "Of all the synthesizer bands that rose in the 1980s, one band has enjoyed repeated success in both their music and popularity while still retaining their unique sound and style." Syndication Host Tom Juarez tells us. This is another wonderful en...Read More

Night Flight’s 1985 Video Profile of The Eagles begins with Pat Prescott introducing an epic performances of “Hotel California,” the ultra-hit that was the beginning of the end for the band. What follows is likely the most comprehensive and thorough review of the former member's solo careers before the band’s reunion in 1994. Patt Prescott takes us through Glenn Fre...Read More

It’s a music video investigation of the "Male Mystique" in rock tonight, circa 1984. You can probably guess the cast: Prince, Bowie, Springsteen and for added drama, a million dollar (pound) dystopian music video for Duran Duran's “The Wild Boys,” a song inspired by the 1971 surrealist sex novel The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead by William S. Burroughs. Of course, w...Read More

On tonight’s episode of “20 Years of Rock ’n’ Roll Style” Night Flight covers Glam Rock. “Twilight fell on the grassroots hippie sixties, and it was time to put the glitz and glamor back into rock,” Pat Prescott tells us before introducing T. Rex. From there we travel through Freddie Mercury solo cuts, D.A. Pennebaker’s live video for Bowie’s “White Light, White Hea...Read More

Night Flight's "Take Off" to Guitar Rock is a syndication special with host Tom Juarez from 1994. This video mix includes Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jeff Beck, John Lee Hooker and more. Roots guitar music was probably the last thing on a young person's late night TV mind in the grunge era, but Night Flight could always be relied on to celebrate culture and not follow trends. Right?

1988's "Take Off" to Hardcore (and more!)  You gotta hand it to the original Night Flight writers. Every weekend for over seven years, the team put together 8 hours of cutting-edge television—mixing a complex blend of avant-garde, undiscovered and obscure visual/audio art. The amount of work this took on a weekly basis back in the 1980s is staggering.   Tonight’s...Read More

Culture is political on tonight’s original episode of Night Flight where we return to 1986 to “Take Off” to Politics. Kicking off with Edwin Starr’s “WAR,” Night Flight navigates the polarizing music terrain of the ‘60s and ‘70s with a visual backdrop of global conflict from the time period, highlighting the electrifying politics that power rock and roll. A couple ‘...Read More

Tonight we’re going to turn your living room into the after hours club of your dreams. Not only are you on the A list, you’ve got a ringside seat to the hottest talent The Big Apple has to offer. That’s right, tonight we “Take Off” to New York City Rock, featuring Lou Reed, The Ramones, Blondie, Grandmaster Flash, Yoko Ono, Run DMC and more. From the Velvet Under...Read More

When you think of party time in the '80s... what comes to mind? It's totally understandable if a dark void exists for those of you who really found the time party. If the faint lingering echo of Gap Band's "Party Train," or Madness' "Our House" is ringing in your ears, then welcome - please step inside our time capsule to Night Flight's "Take Off To Party Time" from...Read More

This Night Flight Original episode features a segment from the "Take Off" series on Politics and Progressive Rap. We also included extra special bonus feature on 'Movie Villains.'

Night Flight's take off to Rock and Cult films. This is A special preview of some of the films Night Flight showed in 1985 including Rude Boy (starring the Clash), Breaking Glass, Smithereens, Debbie Harry in Union City, Warhol's Frankenstein and more...

Welcome to Night Flight's Take Off to Rock Legends! Tonight we'll look at those performers who had a profound influence on popular music including Chuck Berry, Elvis, Smokey Robinson and more classics. In true Night Flight fashion, this episode explains the influences and cultural context of Rock and Roll through the decades and up to more contemporary (for the time...Read More

"Rockabilly is a strange brew," Pat Prescott announces, "part Rhythm & Blues, Country & Western, Gospel and even Pop. It's a style that takes us back..." Continuing with our recent theme of looking at the history of rock and roll, this week we've got Night Flight's 1984 Take Off To Rockabilly. With Jerry Lee Lewis, Stray Cats, Robert Gordon, The Blasters and X, this...Read More

Ever since “Rock Around The Clock” was heard on the soundtrack of the film Blackboard Jungle, rock music has targeted the classroom as a constant enemy of all that is fun and good in music. Tonight we look at the bands revolting against school authority and classroom discipline with tunes from The Stray Cats, Ramones, Twisted Sister and more. The 1980s had no shorta...Read More

“Female impersonator Divine portrays women from the sleazy to the sublime,” Pat Prescott says at the start of Night Flight’s “Take Off to Drag.” The episode is another timeless Night Flight classic that also features Joey Arias, David Bowie and more. It begins with scenes from 80s Canadian Drag star Craig Russell in clips from the film Too Outrageous! (1987), also f...Read More

Another classic cut of summer themed Night Flight programming featuring The Cars, The Untouchables, Jimmy Cliff, and Pat Prescott trivia time: "What happens when the original surf rockers trade places with 900 pounds of rap?" The Fat Boys' Wipeout!

"One of the sturdiest trends in rock videos," Pat Prescott says, "is the use of 'high art' to elevate down and dirty Rock 'n' Roll." Tonight's original episode of Night Flight from the archives is a "Take off" to Art in Music Videos! The episode highlights art and music collaborations like New Order and William Wegman (and the dog supermodel Fay Ray), Grace Jones's ...Read More

Night Flight’s 1985 “Take Off” to Animation Vol. 4 is a perfect mid-decade snapshot of the remarkable evolution of technology and creativity in animation happening in the 1980s. Featuring super-group The Power Station's composited cutout acid trip for their T-Rex cover, Machinations rotoscoped “Pressure Sway” (above), Steve Miller’s early 3D animation effort “Bon...Read More

Night Flight takes off to Animation, Part 3! This segment features traditional Hollywood animation, stop motion, pixelation, and computer animation. Featuring videos from Cyndi Lauper, George Clinton, Jean Luc Ponty and more...

"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

Night Flight's innovative "Take Off" series dispensed with playlists, bland VJ set-ups and the usual tired video countdown format and instead cleverly programmed music videos and performance clips by theme. The series regularly featured hits from Eighties pop icons juxtaposed against obscurities from many not-ready-for-MTV cult favorites. Original Air Date: 4-13-84 ...Read More

Heavy Metal and Punk. Classic Interviews featuring legends of heavy metal and punk rock. Late Night TV from the 80s never felt so good. Features animation, rock gods, pop culture icons, and other surprises.

Hard Rock Metal and Video Music Pioneers. Featuring cartoons, pop culture icons, and a divine drag queen.

Welcome to tonight’s "special investigation" into Satanic Metal circa 1988 (peak Satanic Panic!). Ever since the days of Paradise Lost, Faust and Hot Stuff Comic Books, the devil has been folk antihero numero uno and when Rock & Roll finally came along, he had his soundtrack (according to outraged fundamentalists).  Kicking off with Ozzy's "Miracle Man," join us ...Read More

Movie Star President and Shock Rock. Cult films, retro animation and a visit from the Shock Rock Goddess herself. Features retro animation, cult video, and candid interviews.

NY Punk and Spaceman. Two titans of modern music stop by with candid interviews and rare performance footage.

Avant-Garde Experimenters and the Blues. A close look at an anonymous group of video experimenters and two influential blues guitarists.

Hardcore Punk and Australian Invasion. Watch rare footage of groundbreaking hardcore punk and get to know Australia's biggest rock band with exclusive interviews.

Iconic Horror and D.C. Punk. A Jekyll and Hyde-like interview with one of Horror's most infamous villains and a retrospective of the Washington D.C. punk scene of the 1980s.

Rock Photography and NYC Hip Hop. A look behind the camera that captured Rock N’ Roll and a visit from a New York grandmaster.

Rock On The Road. Guitar tips from a master of the art and tour footage with a powerhouse vocalist and her conflicted partner.

The Electronic Revolution. The bands that brought the synthesizer out of the avant-garde and into the pop stratosphere.

Virtuoso Frontmen. Two of the most feverishly creative frontmen in modern music history stop by the Night Flight studios.

Art Pop and Rock Muses. A seductive take on pop music and the cosmopolitan lovers that inspired it.

The Who and The Damned. A look at one of 80s punk’s rare surviving acts and a 1960s songwriting icon.

The Heartbreakers. A close look at a recently lost rock icon and a glam-punk bard. Both were known to have broken a heart or two.

Pop Poetry. Lyrical sophistication and songwriting elegance define two of modern music’s most compelling figures.

Addicted. Escape to “unreality” with late ‘80s alt rock and get hooked on love with a stylish soul soloist.

Vocal Vanguards. A pop heir charts his own course and a look at the career of Rock’s vanguard vocalist and song stylist.

Metalhead is one wild ride down the hardest rocking highway, with backstage posses, exclusive and furious live shows, raw interviews of the loud and lewd...Metalhead. Interviews and videos from Bon Jovi, Sabbath, Scorpions, Skid Row and more. Featuring spotlight on new bands - Salty Dog, Ezo, Little Caesar, Dead On, plus shock rock from GWAR, MTV'S Riki Rachtman and...Read More

HEY METALHEADS...take a bite outta this! We're back to rock you raw and slap you senseless with these Godhead features: Aerosmith - fist first on Hollywood's Rock Walk of Fame, in the studio with producer Mike (Skid Row) Wagner, Doro Pesch dressed to kill for the latest tour, talkin' tattoos with Olivia ("Repo Man)" Barish, a "B-B-Q From Hell" and shopping in rock '...Read More

In your face and out your ears! In this volume of MetalHead Video Magazin: Iron Maiden takes you behind the scenes on the world tour, symphonic speed metal meets skate punk with Shrapnel, Every Mother's Nightmare terrorize tourists at a Farmers Market, Axel shares his horrific jewelry and just HOW much torture can one MetalHead take? Meet moshin' Mom and Pop METALHE...Read More

IT'S METALHEAD IV...manic metal panic-paint peeling video guaranteed to strip your walls and bounce your balls. Diamond Dave gets down, gets dirty with Tawn Mastrey, speed metal monsters Anthrax hit London with a vengeance, Ozzy gets his jollies on a talking dog phone, Vegas legends Slaughter hit town for homecoming bash, we meet the horrific GWAR Cinderella, Jagged...Read More

For the penultimate entry in the lost home video classic, we suggest you check your earplugs at the door! Slayer and Megadeth invade the universe and take no prisoners on the Clash of the Titans tour, the rock and roll gospel according to Henry Rollins, San Francisco's home-grown metal maniacs Primus get the home video treatment and TAD: 300 pounds of Sub Pop sound.

"More Hard Rock bang for your buck" in this final entry of MetalHead Video Magazine with segments that include: Sebastian Bach at Hollywood's posh Le Parc Hotel, The God of Shock Alice Cooper unveils past, present and future secrets in this intimate on-on-on, Dweezil Zappa sound checks and sounds off from the Cat Club in NYC, and Mudhoney Mayhem!

Call it Hillbilly, Rockabilly, Boogie or Bluegrass Swing, Progress or Neo-traditional–call it anything, but KEEP IT COUNTRY! Night Flight creator Stuart S. Shapiro's Country Music Video Magazine (1990) is 60 minutes of country's finest from Nashville to L.A. A must for modern country fans: intimate interviews, exclusive LIVE performances, and video and CD reviews fr...Read More

60 minutes of swingin', twangin', hell raisin', trailblazin' contemporary country music in Night Flight creator Stuart S. Shapiro's Video Magazine series. Coming to you from Nashville, Austin or L.A., country is happening in a big way... so remember, KEEP IT COUNTRY! Behind-the-scenes peek and up-front Q & A on the set of Dwight Yoakam latest video, backstage at Uni...Read More

Contemporary Country music rides the range from hard rockin' hillbilly to the sweet soul of Dixie...call it anything but KEEP IT COUNTRY! In Volume 3 of this Video Magazine produced by Night Flight creator Stuart S. Shapiro, Kathy Mattea talks romance, risk-taking, hit songs and spandex, a personal invitation from Garth Brooks to hang out backstage, The Nitty Gritty...Read More

Welcome to COUNTRY MUSIC VIDEO MAGAZINE, Volume 4-where a star is more than just a cowboy hat and a good lookin' pair of boots... and every tune is an invitation to kick up your heels. Come on over to the cutting edge of country for on-stage excitement, exclusive interviews, memorable behind-the-scenes magic... and remember, KEEP IT COUNTRY! On the road to Denver w...Read More

Everyone's invited to this massive survey of 80s music and fashion. Jump right in to relive the iconic movements represented over the decade.

Everyone's invited to PART 2 of this massive survey of 80s music and fashion. Jump right in to relive the iconic movements represented over the decade.

Welcome to part 1 of Visions of Platinum! We look at the top selling artists of today (1985!). You'll see videos from best selling artists Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, Tina Turner, Huey Lewis, Cyndi Lauper, ACDC, and Kiss. We also speak to the producers behind some classic records Nil Rodgers producer of David Bowie and Duran Duran, Phil Ramone, the main producer of ...Read More

Welcome to part 2 of Visions of Platinum! We look at the top selling artists of today (1985!). You'll see videos from best selling artists Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, Tina Turner, Huey Lewis, Cyndi Lauper, ACDC, and Kiss. We also speak to the producers behind some classic records Nile Rodgers producer of David Bowie and Duran Duran, Phil Ramone, the main producer of...Read More

Tonight, fly around the globe with us while sampling the sounds of (nearly) every continent circa 1985 along the way. In this two hour block (featuring a treasure trove of original commercials) we ride the wave of cultural globalization as it arrives in Jamaica, Japan, Australia, and South Africa. Featuring global hits and b-sides from Nile Rodgers, Malcolm Mclaren,...Read More

Fresh from the vault, an original episode of Night Flight that surveys early TV performances and visuals from rock canon, before the music video revolution. Check out some legendary Beat Club performances (in impeccable quality from the 2 inch masters), stick around for Night Flight Trivia and bonus: all the original commercials.

“Here’s a look at the second British Invasion of America…” says Pat Prescott ahead of this brand new arrival from the vault featuring music videos from Adam Ant, Heaven 17, and Eurythmics. The first British music invasion was of course lead by The Beatles in 1964, so we start the show tonight with a rare performance from a 1982 documentary called The Compleat Beatles.

“In 1985,” Visions host Al Bandiero says, “British rockers have held the #1 slot on the American charts for more than 8 months." With a mix of music videos, interview, and artist bios, this episode of Visions features 80s British musicians like Annie Lennox, Sade, New Order, and The Cure.