NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Silver Jews on 9 January 2022. Silver Jews has been played on NTS over 50 times, featured on 29 episodes and was first played on 16 March 2014.

Silver Jews was an American indie rock band from New York City. The band's earliest incarnation was the college band Ectoslavia, formed by future Pavement founders Bob Nastanovich, Stephen Malkmus and frontman David Berman at the University of Virginia in 1989. An exercise in joyous noise, the band disbanded after graduation and the three friends moved to New York to take up various jobs - Nastanovich, a bus…