NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of No Trend on 11 June 2021. No Trend has been played over 30 times on NTS, first on 11 February 2016. No Trend's music has been featured on 26 episodes.

From 1982-1988, Ashton, Maryland’s No Trend created some uniquely anti-establishment music, incorporating elements of punk, post-punk, noise rock, and later on gothic rock as well as jazz rock into a sound (or perhaps cacophony) that was unmistakably their own.

Jeff Mentges, one of the band’s founders, seemingly despised the clique that hardcore had become. Jack Anderson (bass) admits that they “did not play hardcore music, but did…