Quote:The Residents to Debut ‘Duck Stab! Alive!’ Performance for ‘Night Flight’ 40th-Anniversary Special
May 10, 2021
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The Residents will debut a special new performance, Duck Stab! Alive!, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the long-running alternative variety/music show, Night Flight. The performance will air June 5th on the Night Flight Plus app.
Duck Stab! Alive! is described in a release as a “contemporary ‘live-in-the-studio’ re-imagining” of the Residents’ 1978 album, Duck Stab!The performance was directed by video artist John Sanborn, who has regularly collaborated with the Residents since the Nineties.
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Along with showing Duck Stab! Alive! the 40th-anniversary Night Flight special will include a marathon screening of Penelope Spheeris’ classic documentary trilogy about the Los Angeles music scene, The Decline of Western Civilization Parts 1, 2 and 3, as well as Modern Harmonic’s reissue of a 1986 performance featuring John Cage and Sun Ra.
Night Flight originally ran on the USA Network from 1981 to 1988, developing a cult following on the then-nascent cable network. The show was revived from 1990 to 1996, relaunched online in 2015, then briefly ran again as a 15-minute TV series on IFC in 2018. The new subscription streaming service, Night Flight Plus, features original episodes, a curated collection of cult films, music documentaries, independent music videos, and more. The 40th-anniversary special will be available to watch for all Night Flight Plus subscribers; a discounted annual membership is available with the code “NIGHTFLIGHT40.”
As for the Residents, the masked avant-garde rock collective is plotting their own 50th-anniversary celebration with a North American tour that is scheduled to launch in August.

(05-25-2021, 11:10 PM)thatguy Wrote: I may be up for that. I’ve never seen them. 

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Constantly defying classification, THE RESIDENTS have been regarded as icons in the world of experimental music for almost fifty years. In addition to their groundbreaking work in the areas of trance, world fusion, electronica, punk, industrial and lounge music, the group has also been credited with being among the originators of performance art and music video, with their videos included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Their lengthy career has also taken them into the world of film and television music, having scored numerous films and TV series as well as several projects for MTV. In addition, the group is also thriving in the world of digital media having released ten DVDs, and two internet series.

(12-21-2022, 11:57 PM)thatguy Wrote: Yeah, but you can walk to The Rio: Sat 4/15/23

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