John Paul Young has been played on NTS in shows including Minimal Wave w/ Veronica Vasicka, featured first on 14 June 2022. Songs played include The Boulevards Of Hope and Ermie Has Feelers.

John Paul Young, is the leader and keyboardist of Canadian punk rock band Cardboard Brains, which was formed in 1976. In 1980 he released a new set of semi-autobiographical recordings, which he called The Life of Ermie Scub, on which he played all the instruments. These are the dark tales of a presumably lonely boy, an errant genius who was clearly ahead of his time and lost in his own fantasies.