Before Charlie Ahearn shot his seminal hip-hop film "Wild Style" in 1982, he was directly exposed to the bourgeoning hip-hop, break-dancing and graffiti movement, while shooting his super-8 mar...Read More
The Howlin' Wolf Story documents the life of blues legend Chester 'Howlin' Wolf' Burnett and features rare material, including performances of many of his classic Chess Records tunes, an appear...Read More
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 broaden...Read More
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 mus...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 experimen...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 experiment...Read More
A message from Host Pat Prescott and Night Flight creator Stuart S. Shapiro to kick off Night Flight's 40th Anniversary Special!
Triumph Of The Underdog is the first comprehensive documentary about jazz bassist, bandleader and composer Charles Mingus. A lucid involving portrait showing the many faces and tortured heart o...Read More
Featuring an original soundtrack by Johnny Thunders. WHAT ABOUT ME tells the story of a young woman, Lisa Napolitano (Rachel Amodeo), who through uncontrollable circumstances, finds herself hom...Read More
After a collection of demos and early studio recordings earned her a dedicated audience, songwriter Jessica Pratt moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles and recorded her first intentional albu...Read More
Actor, screenwriter and artist Karen Black cemented a place for herself in the New Hollywood movement of the 60s and 70s with starring turns in films like Easy Rider (1969) and Five Easy Pieces...Read More
Evan Shornstein, known as Photay, has a talent for melody, but rhythm is at the heart of everything he does. He’s been playing the drums since elementary school, and the name Photay actually st...Read More
In a time rife with alienation, Magic Touch, the latest album by the ubiquitous and mysterious Jack Name to be released on Mexican Summer, offers the comfort of contact. With a body of work tha...Read More
Swedish psych rock band Dungen was founded by composer and vocalist Gustav Ejstes in 2001. Their most recent studio album Häxan, is the first all-instrumental work the group released and was in...Read More
“The best songs in the world come from a feeling” says the artist known as Ilian, whose life and career is documented in this short film created by Mexican Summer's Anthology records for the th...Read More
CMON, which stands for Confusing Mix of Nations, is a pop duo born out of the ashes of Brooklyn indie rock group Regal Degal. Shifting the focus towards more danceable tracks, the duo carried t...Read More
Georgia-based Robert Lester Folsom released his first studio album, Music and Dreams, in 1978. Although it did receive some local attention on its initial release, the record had limited pressi...Read More
In 2016, Mexican Summer's sister label Anthology reissued two essential live albums from Träd, Gräs och Stenar (Tr-ad Grass Ah-k Sta-Nar), a 70s underground Swedish psych rock export, whose rec...Read More