Meet the Residents

EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Filmmaker and visual artist Marie Losier invites us into the mysterious and unclassifiable world of the Residents, the emblematic figures of the American musical avant-garde for over 50 years and the band perhaps most symbiotic with Night Flight. This playful, intimate portrait celebrates the extraordinary freedom of a band that never followed th...Read More

EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Metal Madness follows the first act of the musical Doctor Dark by The Residents. Mark (Matti Schuldt) lives under the terror of his violent father (Patrick Joswig) and his new wife (Eva Dorrepaal), who try to impose discipline and religious beliefs on the boy, often accompanied by physical violence and humiliation. His only escape lies in metal m...Read More

Theory of Obscurity tells the story of the iconic renegade cult band The Residents. From the group’s formation in Shreveport to their success in the burgeoning San Francisco avant-garde music scene of the 60s and 70s, The Residents redefined what a rock band could be. With the advent of music videos in the 1980s, these masked musicians gained global fame as MTV darl...Read More

To celebrate their 50th Anniversary, The Residents undertook a secret, one-off performance in their hometown of San Francisco. Joined on stage by a hand-picked cast of guest artists, the group and their friends performed a dream setlist of classics from the band's back catalogue, including songs never performed live before. Featuring guest vocalists, a girls' chorus...Read More

Night Flight welcomes one of the most mysterious bands in rock history, The Residents, to celebrate their landmark 1979 album ESKIMO, which explored Inuit culture, music and spirituality. Tonight we present two new songs written for the upcoming ESKIMO tour, and two additional songs from the band’s recently released EP, "Dookietown."

Dive deep into the psyche of Randall "Junior" Rose (Dustin York), son of a recently deceased rock star and a former priest who has lost faith in the church. Convinced that a fungus is a threat to humanity, and accompanied by his only friend Cherry, an AI enhanced drone (voiced by Isabelle Barbier), Junior slowly gathers evidence to support his bizarre theory, spiral...Read More

In this original episode of Night Flight, we take a look at the mysterious art rock project the Residents and have a profile of the San Francisco Rock scene that includes. music videos from Santana, Starship, Grateful Dead and more. Original Air Date: 2-18-86

Night Flight is proud to kick off our 42nd Anniversary Weekend programming on Night Flight Plus with The Residents' “God In 3 Persons” concert film, a Night Flight streaming exclusive that originally premiered in 2020 at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Operatic in its vision and profound in its implications, "God in 3 Persons" examines the controversial concepts...Read More

The anonymous and prolific quartet, the Residents, have remained a fixture in the avant-garde music and art scene for decades, releasing over 60 full-length records. Rejecting individual identities, the group disguises itself for public appearances in giant eyeball masks and tuxedos, avoiding interacting with media and issuing all statements through the “Cryptic Cor...Read More

The Residents had recorded their album, The Commercial Album, in 1980. It contained 40 one-minute tunes. The DVD version of this required enlisting many talented film-makers from around the world, each contributing one or more one-minute videos to accompany the songs. Though the videos can be viewed in a linear fashion, more intriguing is wandering through a maze ...Read More

The inspiration behind the Talking Light tour is The Residents' fascination with spooky stories. All of these ghost stories share a common theme, which ultimately asks the question: In a world where nearly everything has been categorized, how do we fulfill our need for the Fuzzy, the Vague, or the Supernatural. with TV commercials'