MX-80 Sound has been played on NTS in shows including Tim Koh: Kokonut Trip, featured first on 28 October 2014. Songs played include Someday You'll Be King, Obsessive Devotion and It's Not My Fault.

MX-80 Sound were a post-punk band originally from Bloomington, Indiana (involved in the same scene that spawned the Gizmos).

Their sound was centered around Bruce Anderson's slashing, trebly guitar riffing and Rich Stim's deadpan, often indecipherable, mumble. As a five-piece (with two drummers), they twice released a seven-song 7-inch EP (subtitled Hard Pop from the Hoosiers) on local labels, impressing Island Records enough to sign them. But the following album, Hard Attack,…