The Third Wave has been played over 10 times on NTS, first on 3 November 2017. The Third Wave's music has been featured on 11 episodes.

Third Wave was a pop jazz vocal group consisting of 5 teenage Filipino sisters from Stockton, California that was discovered by funky keybordist and long time Frank Zappa collaborator George Duke. Duke brought the sisters over to Germany in 1970, where he produced and recorded the album ,Here and Now for German label MPS.