Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: National Museum Day

Dick Dickenbock, his staff, & his crew are still on vacation for one more week, but I did prepare a show for XRAY tomorrow - prerecorded, mostly music - for National Museum Day, which is May 18. Some say Dick Dickenbock belongs in a museum, so he might have been offended had he done the show live.

That's tomorrow, Sunday, noon to 1pm, on 91.1+107.1fm in Portland, online everywhere at xray dot fm.

Free admission on Sundays!

This Week In Self Help (May 11 12 + 13)

Though my shows were on vacation, though my own vacation was waylaid (story coming up), I still had prepared shows to air - & even surprised myself & made a short show for in-between. Here are the recordings that took up my space on the radio this week:

The Dickenbock Report celebrated Irving Berlin's birthday.

Here is the show on the XRAY website.
Here is the show on the Self Help Radio website.

On Monday night I played an hour of songs all entitled "Air" on KBOO.
KBOO does not archive its sub shows.
But here is the show on the Self Help Radio website.

In the place of Self Help Radio, I played three hours of interesting new sounds I've come across recently.

Here is the show on the KBOO website.

Here is the show on the Self Help Radio website.

The Self Help Radio website sometimes needs a username & a password. That would be SHR & selfhelp.

More recordings this week as my "vacation" was due to end on Wednesday.

Self Help Radio 051325: On Vacation Week One

Self Help Radio's first vacation filler show is music in the electronica, jazz, & experimental genres that are (as far as I know) newly released this year & (in my opinion) full of interesting sounds.

You can listen to this show either at the KBOO website or at the Self Help Radio website. If you choose the latter, use SHR as a username & selfhelp as a password to access. It was almost all music - I only did backannouncing because, you know, radio. The playlist is below.

Enjoy! I'll have another filler show in a week & Self Help Radio returns the week after that!

Self Help Radio On Vacation Week One

"The Drop" Raiiio _Otros Principios_

"Onanist" Ethel Cain _Perverts_

"Auto Show Day Of The Dead" The Fun Years _Auto Show Day Of The Dead_

"Flower" Numün _Opening_

"Come Out To Play" Sea Of Suns _Come Out To Play_

"Dare" Biomania _System D_

"Underwave" Black Flower _Kinetic_

"When I Was Young & My Heart Had Windows" Christopher Dammann Sextet _Christopher Dammann Sextet_

"Summer Storm" Okonski _Entrance Music_ 

"Iron Giraffe" Takuya Kuroda _Everyday_

"Peach Fuzz" The Pro-Teens _MF Teen: Your Concurrence In The Above Is Assumed_

"Nova" TDJ _SPF Infini: Genesis_

"Surrender" Saroon & Matthew Holmes _Archipelago_

"Acid Tongue" Darwin Chamber X DJ Spun _Episode 2_

"Funkmantra" Hermanito _Please Hold EP_

"PH 15" Devin Maxwell _Selfies_ 

"Beyond The Crystal Sphere" Empyrean Chimes _Empyrean Chimes_

"Feuer - Fire" Simon Grote _Stücke - Pieces_

"Iguana's Window" Roy Werner _Emerald: New Sounds From Moon Glyph Records_

"Children Of Chernobyl" Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith _Correspondences Vol. II_

"Hatif" The Bombillas _Hatif_

"Mayo Con Yayo" Polyrhythmics _Mayo Con Yayo_

"Discomania" Calibro 35 _Exploration_

"Manga Bois" Bella Wakame _Manga Bois_

"Chancletazo" Empanadas Ilegales _Chancletazo_

"Kokiri" Lust For Youth & Croatian Amor _All Worlds_

"Gloam" Emptyset _Dissever_

"The Suicide In Your Eyes" Taylor Art _Falling Out Of Orbit_

"Hopfields" More Eaze & Claire Rousay _No Floor_

"Pomegranate" L'Antidote _Pomegranate_

"Changing States" Matmos _Changing States_

"Providence" Sheldon Agwu _Kintsugi_

Whither Self Help Radio On Vacation Week One?

Self Help Radio the radio show is on vacation for a couple of weeks. Gary the person who does the show may or may not be on vacation. I'll tell that story soon enough.

Because the show is on vacation & because I was able to prepare something in its absence, there will be three hours of interesting sounds - experimental, jazz, electronica, etc. - which I've been listening to this year. No theme, no interviews, no embarrassing attempts to be funny. Just three hours of sounds I found interesting that you may too.

Tonight. Midnight to 3am. 90.7fm in town, kboo dot fm everywhere.

The picture above, of a streetlight at dawn, has nothing whatsoever to do with anything.

Preface To Self Help Radio On Vacation Week One: How Does A Radio Show Go On Vacation?

Obviously a radio show doesn't go on vacation, the person doing the radio show goes on vacation.

That is, if everything goes well. But what if everything doesn't go well? What if in fact things go horribly awry? Does the radio show - or the person doing the radio show - just not go on vacation?

That might be the case except - what if the person who thought they were going on vacation already prepared shows to be aired during the vacation even if the vacation didn't happen?

Please don't use the word "staycation."

As David Bowie once said, "Sordid details following."