NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Stereolab on 20 May 2020. Stereolab has been played on NTS over 400 times, featured on 353 episodes and was first played on 10 May 2013.

Stereolab are a UK-based band whose style, mixing 1950s–1960s pop and lounge music with the “motorik” beat of krautrock, was one of the first to which the term “post-rock” was applied. People frequently refer to their style as being "avant-pop." They are noted for the use of vintage keyboard instruments like Moog synthesizers and Vox and Farfisa organs. Stereolab is also notable for founding their own record label, Duophonic Records,…