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Many years ago, many miles away, at a community radio station in Austin, Texas, using a basic outline from the website twee.net, I undertook to play in alphabetical order bands & musicians that fit the genre of "indiepop."  (See the Wikipedia definition.)  Being too ambitio... Read more

Though Self Help Radio has been on KBOO for only a couple of years, it has been around since 2002.  Every year starting then, there's been a Self Help Radio Christmas show called A Very Self Help Radio Christmas.  This is the twentieth installment. It's also the last one. ... Read more

Please be aware this isn't a "best of" list.  Even though I listen to lots of music (I'm Gary), I haven't listened to all the music that came out in 2022.  Also, I don't really believe you can use the word "best" about something that's subjective, like an opinion.  What I l... Read more

It's a radio show about parallel things - parallel lives, universes, lines, you know. Also we talk to someone from a parallel universe. & to a fellow who feels he's lived his live in parallel with a martial arts superstar.  & a former Olympian who was great on the parallel... Read more

Happy birthday! Who's Magda? She's my wife! Who am I? I am Gary, the person who hosts Self Help Radio! I've made a birthday show for her almost every year of the show! Don't see your favorite birthday song here?  It's because I don't play the same recording twice!  That ma... Read more

It's time to go bananas!  Or go to someplace where it's okay to listen to a radio show about bananas, anyway. Too many songs about bananas plus we talk to a person named Bananas & to a person who's a fanatic about bananas, & also we talk about books about bananas & movies ... Read more

Chains bind, but they also protect. Chains enable machinery to work. Metaphorical chains keep us in places we don't want to be. & chains is the theme of this week's Self Help Radio. In addition to lots of songs about chains (including, as you can see below, sets about chain... Read more