NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Throbbing Gristle on 16 May 2023. Throbbing Gristle has been played on NTS over 280 times, featured on 263 episodes and was first played on 29 July 2013.

Throbbing Gristle was formed in London, UK in 1975 out of the ashes of international performance art group COUM Transmissions. Founding members Cosey Fanni Tutti, Chris Carter, Peter Christopherson and Genesis P-Orridge, as well as artist Monte Cazazza (a collaborator and friend of the band), coined the phrase "Industrial Music For Industrial People" to describe the dehumanization and mechanization of music making they in part wanted to evoke….