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In this episode, Jennifer gifts you lots of new releases just in time for the holidays.

Maximum Rocknroll Radio is a weekly radio show and podcast featuring DIY punk, garage rock, hardcore, and more from around the world. A rotating cast of DJs pick the best of the best from MRR's astounding, ever-growing vinyl archive. You can find MRR Radio archives, specials and more on their website.

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Santoka Taneda’s poem “Under the burning sky - / a procession of ants, / without end."

To have your music featured on the show, participate in the Haiku music challenge.

Thirty minutes of experimental music made in response to a weekly haiku poem, curated by Marco Alessi of Naviar Records and Naviar's international community of composers.

This episode features location-centred mixes from Berlin-based sound artist Marta Forsberg and Poznań-based composer and sound engineer Aleksandra Słyż.

The show focuses on music from each city, but also nods to the interconnectedness of different music scenes and identities. Although now based in Berlin, Marta is of Swedish-Polish heritage and Aleksandra has lived and worked in both Poznań and Stockholm. Nods to these connections can be heard throughout.

Each month, First Light Records invites two artists to take an unplanned journey with a microphone around their city to curate an hour-long mix. Each show captures the unique atmosphere of a city from each artist's perspective, through music and found sound.

In this episode we delve into two upcoming releases: Bells: the gauzy glockenspiel experiments from Broken Chip, AKA Martyn Palmer, who is based in the Blue Mountains in Australia, and Homework, an intriguing collaboration between Londoner Matt Atkins and Italian composer MonoLogue (Marie Rose).

Martyn opens the show and talks us through his process in making Bells. We also hear from Matt Atkins who discusses the alchemical and improvisatory processes which went into his collaboration with Marie Rose.

We dip into Nichola Scrutton's new release Night Vision which is based on a practice of semi-conscious writing, enjoy Manja Ristic's special sniffing rock in Croatia and join Colombian composer David Veléz as he does the dishes.

The second half of the show is a beautiful mix by Martyn Palmer of music which inspired his forthcoming album Bells.

This is the Flaming Pines radio show featuring new releases, mixes and experiments in field recording, sound art and experimental music, hosted by Kate Carr and guests.

Virgilio Oliveira explores the sonic environment in collaboration with Porto's Radio Manabras, presenting an hour of sound art and field recordings.

In this episode: how do artists process recorded and generated sounds? What kind of new meaning emerges from this process? Apparently, it often results in laid-back music.

Postnew is a modular theory, describing the fluid development of aesthetics. Every movement has a post-movement, every end is a beginning, every post-aesthetic will be followed by a post-post-aesthetic. Join the mailing list here.

London-based art, music and architecture writer Bobby Jewell plays a selection of ambient, jazz and classical music over two hours.

This episode features new works by Daniele Ciullini, Signalstoerung, Solo1, Nihil Impvlse, Durán Vázquez & Kloob, Ashtoreth, Daimon, Mario Lino Stancati & Marco Megnelli, Runes Order, and 400 Lonely Things.

A selection of new experimental music and sound work from the international underground network Unexplained Sounds, curated by Raffaele Pezzella (Sonologyst).

In 1991, in the last year of the Soviet Union's existence, Melodiya decided to embark on a pioneering experiment in product marketing by launching the Signal Series of records. Each record in this series contained fragments of four new albums to be released, and the envelopes contained sketches of their artwork. The listener was invited to vote for their favorite artist by sending a written request to the major's editorial office to order the record through the label's official store. In essence, Melodiya launched the process of the first democratic elections in the Soviet Union.

In total, the series included 10 LPs with fragments of upcoming albums by 40 artists respectively. Most of them were bands playing the fashionable gorby rock - the so-called “red wave” guitar music of Gorbachev's perestroika period with screaming socio-political lyrics and manifestos. However, the series also included music by Russian art-rock bands, which at that time had already become cult in underground circles and had their own army of listeners (AuktsYon, NOM, NOL, Object of Mockery and others).

I compiled this episode from the music of projects that were less honoured by listeners - their albums were never released on Melodiya in full form. And the label was shut down shortly after the release of the last LP in the series. You will hear outsider new wave, occult hard rock, national reggae, free jazz and mesmerising folk. I'm kidding though - one project on this tracklist did release their debut LP on Melodia. You have one hour to guess who it was.

Uzbekistan-based DJ and boss of the experimental TOPOT label Eugenie Galochkin presents rare vinyl rips from the Soviet Melodia label. Melodia has released music from all around the world: from obscure Baltic electronica and free jazz from Siberia; to synth-pop from Tajikistan and academic avant-garde from Ukraine. The series will explore how national and cultural characteristics are embedded in musical language.

60 minutes of vivid aural excitement mixed by Ian Murphy.

This month: sound artist Patchfinder confronts Jacques Attali's book Noise: the Political Economy of Music.

Monthly investigations of music politics with Paul Rekret.

Tracks from across the spectrum of electronic and computer music, with Calum Gunn of Conditional.

Brooklyn-based Olivia Bradley-Skill presents Lo-fi Goddesses, live sound collage and original radio artworks inspired by female-fronted post-punk bands and experimental dance music.

This episode features music by The Cosmic Tones Research Trio, Bardo Todol, L'arbre Nu, Galen Tipton and more.

Cosmic, transcendent sounds and exploratory electronics with f.ampism.