Remastered from the original 1985 interview. Frank Zappa stopped by the Night Flight studios to talk about music videos, censorship, the PMRC and what it's like to play in his band.
Remastered from the original 1986 interview. Robert Smith tells interviewer Lisa Robinson about what motivated him to start The Cure, being in a “gloomy band” and why 99% of music is boring.
AC/DC had just lost legendary frontman Bon Scott. This would have been the end of the line for most, however, Brian Johnson was recruited and the band produced their most popular album Back In ...Read More
Devil Kids is a live set from indie rock act, Deerhoof, recorded with four cameras in the comically cramped basement of guitarist Ed Rodriguez and mixed by drummer Greg Saunier. The setlist was...Read More
This revealing and touching film asks what happens when a generation's ultimate anti-authoritarians – punk rockers – become society's ultimate authorities – dads. With a large chorus of big nam...Read More
Stations of the Elevated (1981) is a 45-minute city symphony shot on lush 16mm color reversal stock, with a soundtrack that combines ambient city noise with jazz and gospel by Charles Mingus an...Read More
Analyzing the long and influential career of "Man in Black" , this documentary draws on commentary from rock journalists and working musicians, rare footage and interviews with Cash himself to ...Read More
OBSCENE is the definitive film biography of Barney Rosset, the influential publisher of Grove Press and the Evergreen Review. He acquired the then fledgling Grove Press in 1951 and soon embarke...Read More
The Cool School is the story of the Ferus Gallery, which nurtured Los Angeles’s first significant post-war artists between 1957 and 1966. In late 1956, medical-school dropout Walter Hopps met a...Read More
A compilation of J.T.’s films, “live” performance footage and home movies which was included in Drag City’s 2008 reissue of the J.T. IV album Cosmic Lightning, originally released in 1987. Dire...Read More
The Who and The Damned. A look at one of 80s punk’s rare surviving acts and a 1960s songwriting icon.
Addicted. Escape to “unreality” with late ‘80s alt rock and get hooked on love with a stylish soul soloist.
Art Pop and Rock Muses. A seductive take on pop music and the cosmopolitan lovers that inspired it.
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.
Vocal Vanguards. A pop heir charts his own course and a look at the career of Rock’s vanguard vocalist and song stylist.
Unquestionably American, pop music has a profound debt to blues. This episode explores the tumultuous history of blues from its New Orleans origins to its current state.
Featuring a script by Stephen Sondheim, Tony Palmer's landmark series discovers how operetta, burlesque and vaudeville gave birth to the musical.
Tony Palmer's 70s music show examines the history and impact of swing. With intriguing thoughts from Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Benny Goodman.