Virtuoso Frontmen. Two of the most feverishly creative frontmen in modern music history stop by the Night Flight studios.
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.
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.
Tony Palmer's series studies Tin Pan Alley, the publishers and songwriters who turned music into big business by making records to order.
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 epic series traces the music industry back to its beginnings in pubs and taverns, with footage of Judy Garland and Mae West.
Tony Palmer's 70s music show examines the history and impact of swing. With intriguing thoughts from Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Benny Goodman.
Tony Palmer's epic series concludes by looking at the role of spirituality and religion in pop music and why many artists fled the big stage for a quieter life.
Tony Palmer takes us through the riots, the power, the inspiration, and the chaos of The Rolling Stones era music and the infamous San Francisco concert at the Fillmore.
Youth and rebellion are inextricably linked to rock music of the 60s. More than a aesthetic, its music has a strong influence over culture and politics. In this powerful episode, Tony Palmer ex...Read More
Maligned by the rock and pop industries, country music nonetheless command a place in the history of popular music. From the settlement of the west to the powerhouse of Nashville, this episode ...Read More
The raw honesty and danceable beats of rhythm and blues drew executives by the flock. During segregation in America, this form has a fascinating and intensely influential relationship with whit...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 cla...Read More
Horse Lords is Owen Gardner, Andrew Bernstein, Max Eilbacher, and Sam Haberman, an instrumental quartet formed in 2010. Its music is defined by repetition and complexity, “humanized with explor...Read More
Mega Bog is an experimental pop ensemble led by Erin Elizabeth Birgy. For the past ten years, Birgy and her evolving community of collaborators have been crafting poetic, musical odes to the pa...Read More
Dylan Moon is a Los Angeles musician who debuted in 2019 with Only the Blues. His second full-length, Option Explore, is a collection of clever, colorful songs filtered through frequencies, tim...Read More