Ciccone Youth has been played on NTS over 30 times, featured on 32 episodes and was first played on 30 November 2012.

Ciccone Youth was an experimental band which was formed in 1986. It is a side project of Sonic Youth members Steve Shelley, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, and Thurston Moore, with the Minutemen/fIREHOSE member Mike Watt.

The band never played live, but released two records. The first was released on New Alliance Records in 1986, and consisted of three tracks: "Into the Groove(y)" (a cover of Madonna's hit Into the Groove, incorporating snippets of her recording), the short "Tuff Titty Rap" on the A side…