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Every four months of so, Self Help Radio returns to a series begun way back in 2005, when it was a young show on a station in Austin.  It was an attempt to play in alphabetical order artists & bands who fit the genre definition of "indiepop" (the Wikipedia gets it right)... Read more

This was a fun episode. Lots of songs about Paris, a city I have only visited once, but boy did I like it there. I hope to go again. Plus I reconnected with an old friend who married a Frenchman & now lives in Paris.  & I talked with an old friend who's Belgian who loves ... Read more

Could it be, after a year of pandemic, everything is now calm?  No, that's just this radio show.  It's mainly still chaos everywhere. This week on Self Help Radio we calmed the heck down & played tunes about things that are calm.  Sometimes we included things that are coo... Read more

What? It's not sunflower season yet? Can I start planting them though? You bet I can! Self Help Radio planted three hours' worth of sunflowers on this show.  They're gonna grow big! Also, there were interviews & stuff - with artist Henry O'Rourke & with television host ... Read more

The Self Help Radio Cinnamon Challenge - which is not the same as the "cinnamon challenge" you know about - is simply to listen to three hours of songs about cinnamon.  Can you?  Will you?  Do you dare? But wait!  It's not just songs.  We also speak with the host's spirit... Read more

"I have traveled a good deal in Concord," said Thoreau, who wasn't much of a tourist.  In fact, I am not sure why I thought of that quote in relation to this episode of Self Help Radio, which was about tourism.  Hm. The fate of tourism should we emerge from under the curr... Read more

Be careful, this show has some sharp edges! Yes, this week's episode of Self Help Radio is about daggers.  Which aren't quite knives.  I suppose a dagger is a kind of knife, but all knives are not daggers.  I think daggers are fancier.  They have two sharp edges.  If it... Read more

A rare victory for the underdog radio show. Although it's the show itself declaring victory & it's not entirely clear what the battle was. Something is rotten in the state of Self Help Radio... Never you mind!  Some sort of struggle happens whenever this show gets on th... Read more

Some people - doubtless of the lower classes - have spread the scandalous allegation that Self Help Radio made a show about "lords & ladies" in a shameless attempt for patronage.  Imagine if royal riches could pour upon KBOO! Alas, nothing is farther from the truth!  We... Read more