Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: Firefighters’ Memorial Day

There's a confession that needs to be made - the staff & crew of The Dickenbock Report will take a two-week vacation after tomorrow's show. & really, a lot of them were a bit checked out before this. So - we have prepared a show for Firefighters' Memorial Day which we discovered a bit late is a holiday in the UK. Not in the United States. Where the show airs.

However! Dick Dickenbock wants to celebrate fire fighters because he admires any public servants that make their own calendars. So that's what we shall do!

Noon to 1pm tomorrow. On 91.1+107.1fm in Portland, online everywhere at xray dot fm. Maybe now, Dick Dickenbock says, they'll let him climb up one of those ladders!

Oh wait. We've discovered in the United States it's called National Fallen Firefighters Day. So we're on task. Poor Dick Dickenbock!

This Week In Self Help (April 25 27 + 29 & May 2)

That's a picture of my favorite tree in Woodstock Park last autumn right before its leaves turned & fell. It's really apropos nothing. Just wanted to have a pretty picture here.

Here's an announcement! I'm going on vacation for a couple of weeks so there won't be one of these "this week in radio" posts for a while. There will be recorded content in the Self Help Radio/Corporate Standardized Programming space & I'll have a couple of episodes of The Dickenbock Report as well but I'll be busy & not writing about that here. But for this last week...

Friday the 25th I subbed the Songcircle & played songs about painters on Cy Twombly's birthday. Here is the show on the KBOO website. Here is the show on the Self Help Radio website.

Sunday the 27th The Dickenbock Report reported on National Patricia Day. Here is the show on the XRAY website. Here is the show on the Self Help Radio website.

Tuesday the 29th Self Help Radio presented the 77th installment of the Indiepop A To Z series. Here is the show on the KBOO website. Here is the show on the Self Help Radio website.

Also on Tuesday the 29th Corporate Standardized Programming played lots of music by artists we lost in December 2024. It's the last hour of the KBOO file above. But if you'd like to listen to it alone, here is the show on the Self Help Radio website.

Finally - today! Just today I subbed the Songcircle & played lots David Bowie songs covered by other artists. Here is the show on the KBOO website. Here is the show on the Self Help Radio website.

There's a new Dickenbock Report on Sunday & a new Self Help Radio/Corporate Standardized Programming on Tuesday but there I'm leaving Portland for the first time in well over a year. I really need to get out more.

Oh yeah! If you listen to files on the Self Help Radio website, you might need a username & password. Those are SHR & selfhelp.

Self Help Radio 042925: Indiepop A To Z # 77

(All single/album images from Discogs)

Welp. I done did another couple hours of alphabetized indiepop. But really gonna be in the letter S for a while longer.

You can listen to this show on the KBOO website or on the Self Help Radio website. You'll need a username & password at the latter. Those are SHR & selfhelp respectively.

Look at all the song in lovely alphabetical order! Whee!

Self Help Radio Indiepop A To Z # 77

"Footprints On The City" Sharky Favorite _2000 Teenbeat Sampler_

"Through With Love" The Sharp Things _A Moveable Feast_

"Jeane" Sandie Shaw _Hand In Glove_

"Leave All Your Old Loves" The She-Brews _Off With Their Hearts_

"All Comes Out" She Splinters Mortar _Straight From Her Heart_

"Homerun" The Sheets _The Sheets_

"Fragmentary Love" Shelby _Sofa Safari_

"Hero" Shelley _Battery Point (A Sarah Compilation)_

"Mix Tape" Michael Shelley _I Blame You_

"Circle Line" Shelley's Children _The Mask Of Anarchy_

"My Animated World" The Shermans _Casual_

"Noyfriend" Shimura Curves _The Kids At The Club (An Indiepop Compilation)_

"Bite The Apple" Shine! _Shine!_

"Ten Long Years" The Shining Hour _Postcards From Home_

"Empty Ever After" The Shirts _The Shirts_

"Courtney Sat On A Rock" ShiSho _EP Six_

"Teen Line" The Shivvers _Teen Line_

"Shizuka" Shizuka _Momentos Perdidos_

"I, Bloodbrother Be" Shock Headed Peters _Amen (Last Sunshine Deserts Of Él Records)_

"You Can Make Me Feel Bad" Shocking Pinks _Shocking Pinks_

"I Believe In Nights" Shoe Shine Boys _Flying Dutchmen_

"Summer Days" Shoestrings _Pop American Style_

"Blossom (I'm A Super Girl)" Shonen Knife _The Powerpuff Girls: Heroes & Villains_

"Somewhere In China" Shop Assistants _Will Anything Happen (Expanded Edition)_

"Hurry Up Let's Go" Shout Out Louds _Howl Howl Gaff Gaff_

"Hopelessly Wasted" Shrag _Shrag_

"Losing My Cool" The Shrew Kings _The Sound Of Leamington Spa Volume 5_

"Everything" The Shrinking Violets _Everything_

Whither Indiepop A To Z # 77?

Please don't ask why I picked a picture of a neighborhood cat taken last autumn for the image for this post. There's no reason. I feel like I needed a picture. I like taking pictures of neighborhood cats. This spring has wakened in me allergic reactions I've never had before. I am missing the cold damp autumn. There's nothing else!

The Indiepop A To Z series started over 20 years ago in Texas. It has followed me to every place I've been since. I have done 76 installments; tonight's is the 77th. I am in the letter S. I just might never finish the letter S. But that is where I am now. & where I will still be at the end of tonight's episode.

Which airs midnight to 2am on 90.7fm in town & online everywhere at kboo dot fm. It's an oddly obscure genre of music that has captivated so many for quite a while now. I will share two hours of it with you tonight.

Preface To Indiepop A To Z # 77: Shabby Billboard

Above is a picture taken by me which I titled "Shabby Billboard." It was taken in West Fort Worth, Texas, on January 26, 2019. I don't believe I knew then that in a few short months I'd be living in Portland, Oregon. I think I had to run an errand & decided to take a few pictures in a part of town that was - well - kinda shabby.

Why am I sharing this with you? Because of two reasons: one, it seems a lot like one of my radio shows - shoddily put together, of use to no one, & struggling to find something to say. & two, because I'm about to make the 77th installment of a long-running series which is mostly of interest to me. What can I possibly say about that that I haven't already?

Please enjoy this odd picture which I am clumsily using as a metaphor for my show. At least it is as clumsy as my show!