NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Pearls Before Swine on 8 April 2024. Pearls Before Swine has been played on NTS over 50 times, featured on 37 episodes and was first played on 13 June 2017.

Pearls Before Swine was an American psychedelic folk band formed by Tom Rapp in 1965 in Melbourne, Florida, United States. The group signed to ESP Disk and recorded One Nation Underground, a fairly successful release that was followed by the anti-war Balaklava (1968). In the next few years, Rapp often referred onstage, not quite seriously, to the group as "the house band for the SDS" (Students…