NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Alan Vega on 18 July 2016. Alan Vega has been played on NTS over 110 times, featured on 109 episodes and was first played on 14 January 2013.

Alan Vega (Boruch Alan Bermowitz, June 23, 1938 – July 16, 2016) was an American vocalist and visual artist, primarily known for his work with the electronic protopunk duo Suicide.

Alan Bermowitz was raised in a Jewish household in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. Until the announcement of the 70th birthday release of his recordings in 2008, Vega was widely thought to have been ten years younger; the 2005 book Suicide: No…