In a profile for The New York Times, writer Ezra Marcus wrote that that station has "penetrating reach into the underground dimensions of the city's art, literature, nightlife and music scenes."
Past contributors to Montez Press Radio programming include Hua Hsu, John Early and Theda Hammel, Jon Wilson, Screen Slate, Mykki Blanco, Dean Kissick, Frost Children, Miho Hatori, Laraaji, Shayne Oliver, Legacy Russell, Alphonse Pierre, Shannon Briggs, Isaac Julien, Julianna Huxtable, Gary Indiana, Jon Caramanica, Gary Wilson, bar Italia, Moor Mother, Seth Price, Evilgiane, Joanne Robertson, Cities Aviv, Ebony Haynes, Nina Protocol, Honor Levy and Walter Pearce, Josh Citarella, and The Drunken Canal.
Montez Press Radio began in 2018 as a temporary performance experiment organized by the team behind the London, Hamburg, and New York-based independent book publisher Montez Press, "a vital contributor to artist-led publishing over the last decade, foregrounding and queering experimental auto, fan and speculative fiction.
[4] Montez Press Radio has collaborated with arts institutions in New York and abroad, including The Queens Museum, MoMA PS1, The Kitchen, and The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA.
Montez Press Radio is currently producing podcasts with Storefront for Arts and Architecture in a series called On the Ground: Broadcasts.