Tackhead has been played over 20 times on NTS, first on 14 February 2014. Tackhead's music has been featured on 21 episodes.

Tackhead started as an experimental collaboration between producer Adrian Sherwood and musicians Skip McDonald (guitars), Doug Wimbish (bass), and Keith LeBlanc(drums).

In the early 1980's Wimbish, McDonald, and Leblanc were the Sugarhill Records house band, providing backing for, amongst others, the Sugarhill Gang , Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel. After the demise of Sugarhill the three musicians continued to work on various projects including recordings for Tom Silverman's Tommy Boy label.

Keith Leblancs work for Tommy Boy, most notably "No Sell Out", which featured samples…