Emeralds has been played over 20 times on NTS, first on 21 October 2012. Emeralds's music has been featured on 25 episodes.

Emeralds are an Ambient / Drone / Electronic music trio from Cleveland, Ohio, United States. Musicians John Elliott, Steve Hauschildt, and Mark McGuire began playing music together under the name Fancelions in 2005 in the western suburbs of Cleveland. However, due to a desire to simplify and focus more on live improvisation, they soon re-formed as Emeralds.

Playing their first show under that name in June 2006, they saw that their project had a lot of room to grow. Since then, the group released…