The song Dark Night by The Blasters was first featured on the 1985 album Hard Line. The earliest offerings of the song in popular culture can be found the 1985 episode Whatever Works in season 2 of the TV crime drama Miami Vice. It experienced a resurgence in popularity after being prominently featured in the 1996 Robert Rodriguez/Quentin Tarantino film From Dusk Till Dawn as the opening and closing song. It also featured as the main theme in the 2005 hit motion picture, Dark Night.