Urban Waste has been played on NTS in shows including After Dark w/ HELM, featured first on 29 February 2016. Songs played include Public Opinion, Police Brutality and BNC.

Urban Waste (active 1981-1985) was a hardcore punk band that was part of the New York renaissance of punk in the early 1980s. Much more raw, visceral, and overtly confrontational than their New York punk predecessors, they were contemporaries of Reagan Youth (of which bass player Andy Apathy was an early member), the earliest incarnation of the Beastie Boys, and the Bad Brains. They belonged to a group of bands coming out of the borough of…