NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Dead Moon on 22 November 2017. Dead Moon has been played on NTS over 50 times, featured on 37 episodes and was first played on 7 January 2014.

Dead Moon was a Portland, Oregon punk rock band. The band is fronted by singer-songwriter and guitarist Fred Cole; his wife Toody Cole plays bass, and Andrew Loomis plays drums. Formed in 1987, the band combined punk and country in their stripped-down sound.

Fred Cole has engineered most of the band's recordings and mastered them on a mono lathe that was used for The Kingsmen's version of "Louie…