NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Glenn Branca on 15 May 2018. Glenn Branca has been played on NTS over 50 times, featured on 47 episodes and was first played on 12 July 2013.

Glenn Branca (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, October 6, 1948 - May 13, 2018) was an American avant-garde composer and guitarist known for his use of volume, alternative guitar tunings, repetition, droning, and the harmonic series. Branca received a 2009 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award.

Branca studied theater at Emerson College in Boston in the early 1970s. While there, he began experimenting with sound as the founder of an…