YBO² has been played on NTS in shows including The Athenian Marketplace , featured first on 11 April 2019. Songs played include Howl, Bark & Cry, Ural and Canon　(How Long Must Singin' This Song?).

Japanese underground rock group started in 1984 by former magazine editor and SSE Communications label founder, Masashi Kitamura, with two members of the recently split band ONNA, Michio Kurihara and Yoshiki Uenoyama. The band went through a number of line-up changes, the most famous line-up being Kitamura with Kazuyuki Kishino and Yoshida Tatsuya, before splitting in 1990.