Drew McDowall is a frequent guest to NTS, appearing on various shows between 14 June 2019 and most recently on 3 November 2025. Drew McDowall has been played over 50 times on NTS, first on 26 October 2015. Drew McDowall's music has been featured on 58 episodes.

Drew McDowall (born 28 January 1961, in Paisley, Scotland) is a Scottish musician who has been a member, collaborator, and remixer for various influential music groups. McDowall was formerly a full-time member of Coil and several of his remixes have been released on the album Further Down the Spiral.

McDowall formed art-punk trio Poems in 1978 with his then-wife, Rose McDowall. During the 1980s, McDowall was a member of Psychic TV. McDowall performed with Coil regularly for several years, becoming an official member in 1994. McDowall currently is a member of the groups CSD (formerly Captain Sons and Daughters) and Compound Eye (with Tres Warren of Psychic Ills). The notoriously reclusive musician, who resides in New York City, has done a number of public performances for the Modular Synthesizer Solstice and Equinox series in Brooklyn, beginning in 2012. In March 2014, McDowall provided the score to Are You Okay, a short film written by Bret Easton Ellis for the "Are You Okay?" single by Dum Dum Girls.

In 2015 he released his solo album "Collapse".