Self Help Radio

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Airs at: Tue, 04/23/2024 at 12:00am - 3:00am
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Hosted by: 
dickenbock
Produced by: 
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Self Help Radio is not a self-help radio show. It might be something worse.

Each week host Gary explores a different theme with music & with talk. Guests are silly. The music is eclectic. It's kind of a mess.

Shows are archived here & also at the Self Help Radio website. There's a blog. There's Twitter. There's Facebook.

Upcoming themes are on the website. Send ideas for those shows or themes to explore at gary at self help radio dot net or by text 971-319-4847.

Topic tags: 
Music
Genre(s): 
Eclectic
Streams: 
KBOO Stream 1
Program status: 
Current

Corporate Standardized Programming on 05/02/23

Airs at: Tue, 05/02/2023 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
On this program: An hour of music by the late, great Harry Belafonte, who died on April 25, 2023. Plus music from bands coming to town this week, a jazz break, & more. A note about the image above: "Belafonte in 1970" is in the Public Domain. Read more

Corporate Standardized Programming on 04/25/23

Airs at: Tue, 04/25/2023 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
On this program: Two hours of music by the late, great Mark Stewart, who died on April 21, 2023. He is described here as a "vocalist, producer, & songwriter" who was "an anarchic, pioneering figure on the fronters of postpunk, industrial, avant-dub, & electronic music" from... Read more

Corporate Standardized Programming on 04/18/23

Airs at: Tue, 04/18/2023 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
On this episode: Artists coming to Portland. A jazz break from 1965. Birthdays. Some new blues releases. & more.   Photo of birthday boy Little Brother Montgomery from Wikipedia. Taken by Jeff Titon. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read more

Corporate Standardized Programming on 04/11/23

Airs at: Tue, 04/11/2023 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
On this episode, Corporate Standardized Programming pays tribute to the Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto, who died on March 28. It features: His work with Yellow Magic Orchestra His solo work His soundtrack work His work in collaboration with other musicians. The program ... Read more

Corporate Standardized Programming on 04/04/23

Airs at: Tue, 04/04/2023 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
On this episode of Corporate Standardized Programming: A mix of music, new & not as new. A set of musicians coming to town or playing out in town this week. A jazz break featuring music from 1947. Five artists' birthdays celebrated.   Read more

Self Help Radio 3/28/23: Instant Radio Show

Airs at: Tue, 03/28/2023 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
Here it is! The last Self Help Radio on KBOO (for now)! A more clever programmer would have put together a more-self-helpful outing with the theme "instant radio show." Since it's just me, dumb ol' Gary, behind the mic, it's a lot of songs that use the word "instant." In a... Read more

Self Help Radio 3/21/23: Runaways

Airs at: Tue, 03/21/2023 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
The show you wish you could run away from presents a show about runaways. Mainly metaphorical. It's hard to sing songs about runaways! They can be going through some terrible things! Among the other nonsense on the show, I talk to our resident cinephile, Chuck, about films... Read more

Self Help Radio 3/14/23: Adoration

Airs at: Tue, 03/14/2023 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
For this very hastily-assembled program (it certainly has no frills), I gathered a bunch of songs that use some form of the verb "adore" - adoration, adoring, adorable among them. It wasn't too clever but I was gone all weekend & didn't have a great deal of time to do lots ... Read more

Self Help Radio 3/7/23: Lifetimes

Airs at: Tue, 03/07/2023 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
First of all - sorry for the rough start to the show! I probably pushed some buttons wrong so there's a little dead air & some confusion until I figured it out. I thought about editing the audio so it didn't exist but it's a reminder of the fun of live radio, & the fact tha... Read more

Self Help Radio 2/28/23: Nothing

Airs at: Tue, 02/28/2023 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
If you heard nothing on the radio late Monday night/early Tuesday, you heard Self Help Radio. All the show broadcast was nothing. Actually, that's untrue - the KBOO automation glitched & only one-sixth of the show aired. Which is fine. It was better than nothing. I have up... Read more