Sandcastle Radio™

Sandcastle Radio Airs Original LIVE Programming!

Tuesdays

Wednesdays

Especially for our West Coast listeners!

8 p.m. EST

(Coming Soon)

9 p.m. EST

Replay of Goin' Gospel with Debz in Pensacola, FL

10 p.m. EST

Replay of Get the Book Out! with Hilary Jastram in Minneapolis, MN

11 p.m. EST

Replay of Salsa para los Salseros de Ayer con Peruchin in Pensacola, FL

(Wednesday)

12 a.m. EST

Replay of Reggaeton with JohnKarl in Miami, FL

1 a.m. EST

Replay of The Ascension Energy Mix Show with DJ Peter Bedard in Alberta, Canada

2 a.m. EST

Replay of Wintyr's Witching Hour with Denni Wintyr from WintyrQueen in Wellington, NZ

Wednesdays

Especially for our UK listeners!!

10 a.m. EST

Replay of The Secret Place with Deborah Bassett in Pensacola, FL

11 a.m. EST

Replay of Salsa para los Salseros de Ayer con Peruchin in Pensacola, FL

12 p.m. EST

Replay of Dan Pucciarelli's Vinyl For Your Brain in NYC

1 p.m. EST

Replay of The Marco Radio Show with Marc Woodward in Devon, UK

2 p.m. EST

Replay of Euro Express with Hans Geersing in the Netherlands

3 p.m. EST

Replay of The Saturday Night House Party with DJ Pete Perez in Pensacola, FL

5 p.m. EST

Replay of In Bed With Lisa with Lisa Welsh in Durban, South Africa

6 p.m. EST

NEW!! Replay of We're All Friends Here with Greg Campbell, from Boca Raton, FL!

7 p.m. EST

(Coming Soon)

Thursdays

Wednesdays

Thursdays

1 p.m. EST

Get the Book Out! with Hilary Jastram broadcasting from Minneapolis, MN

2 p.m. EST

NEW!! Manic's Madhouse with D-Manic, 2-hour set LIVE from London!!

4 p.m. EST

NEW!! The Honkytonk Hour with Jon Theis, broadcasting from St. Cloud, MN!

5 p.m. EST

NEW!! Rendezvous con Rina: Candid Convos in Spanglish! with Rina Blanco, broadcasting from Pensacola, FL!!

6 p.m. EST

LIVE!! Salsa para los Salseros de Ayer con Peruchin, from Pensacola, Florida!

7 p.m. EST

LIVE!! The Secret Place with Deborah Bassett, from Pensacola, FL!

8 p.m. EST

LIVE!! On the Road with Kenny & Nell, from Lebanon, PA!

9 p.m. EST

All About Alternative with Aaron Stacy, broadcasting from Detroit, MI!

11 p.m. EST

NEW!! In Bed With Lisa with Lisa Welsh, broadcasting from Durban, South Africa!!

Fridays

Saturdays

Thursdays

10 a.m. EST

NEW!! Weekend Chit-Chat with Debz and Pete, LIVE from the Sandcastle Radio Studios in Pensacola, FL!

7 p.m. EST

Reggaeton with JohnKarl, broadcasting from South Florida!

8 p.m. EST

Dan Pucciarelli's Vinyl For Your Brain, from NYC!

9 p.m. EST

LIVE!! My House with DJ Pete Perez, broadcasting from Pensacola, FL!

10 p.m. EST

The Ascension Energy Mix Show with DJ Peter Bedard, broadcasting from Alberta, Canada!

11 p.m. EST

LIVE!! World Beats with Debz from Out of Babylon, broadcasting from Pensacola, FL!

Saturdays

12 p.m. EST

NEW!! Smoothies with Hans in Holland!

1 p.m. EST

LIVE!! The Marco Radio Show with Marc Woodward, from Devon, UK!

3 p.m. EST

Replay of On the Road with Kenny and Nell in Lebanon, PA

4 p.m. EST

Replay of All About Alternative with Aaron Stacy in Detroit, MI

5 p.m. EST

Replay of The Secret Place with Deborah Bassett in Pensacola, FL

6 p.m. EST

NEW!! Replay of Rendezvous con Rina: Candid Convos in Spanglish! with Rina Blanco in Pensacola, FL

7 p.m. EST

Replay of Para los Salseros de Ayer con Peruchin in Pensacola, FL

8 p.m. EST

Replay of The Honkytonk Hour with Jon Theis in St. Cloud, MN

9-11 p.m. EST

LIVE!! The Saturday Night House Party with DJ Pete Perez, 2- hour set from Pensacola, Florida!

Sundays

Saturdays

10 a.m. EST

LIVE!! Goin' Gospel with Debz, from Pensacola, FL!

11 a.m. EST

(Coming Soon)

12 p.m. EST

LIVE!! Euro Express with Hans Geersing, from The Netherlands!

1 p.m. EST

Replay of The Marco Radio Show with Marc Woodward in Devon, UK

3 p.m. EST

(Coming Soon)

4 p.m. EST

Replay of World Beats with Debz from Out of Babylon in Pensacola, FL

5 p.m. EST

Replay of My House with DJ Pete Perez in Pensacola, FL

6 p.m. EST

LIVE!! We're All Friends Here with Greg Campbell, from Boca Raton, FL!

7 p.m. EST

LIVE!! Wintyr's Witching Hour with Denni Wintyr from WintyrQueen, from Wellington, NZ!!

8 p.m. EST

NEW!! Replay of Manic's Madhouse with D-Manic, 2-hour set from London!!

About Us

Our Programming

We are committed to showcasing independent artists from around the world and stream an exciting mix of independent music and our own personalized playlists of eclectic music that includes house music, alternative rock, country, and more when we aren't broadcasting our original variety and music programming. Our presenters and DJs are experts in their areas and broadcast LIVE each week from NYC, Detroit, Miami, and around the world! We are America's Hottest Online Variety and Music Station! Tune in now!

Our Top Shows

The Saturday Night House Party with DJ Pete Perez (House Music)
Reggaetón with JohnKarl (Spanish Rap, Dance)
All About Alternative with Aaron Stacy (Alternative Rock)
Dan Pucciarelli's Vinyl For Your Brain: Live from NYC (Disco)
Para los Salseros de Ayer con Peruchin / Salsa for the Ages with Peruchin (Salsa)
World Beats with Debz from Out of Babylon (World Music)
On the Road with Kenny and Nell! (Travel Talk Show)
The Secret Place with Debz (Variety)
My House with DJ Pete Perez (Indy House Artists)
The Marco Radio Show with Marc Woodward (Poetry and Acoustic Music)
Goin' Gospel with Debz (Gospel)

The History of Our Station

Our team combines four decades of experience in online broadcasting, traditional radio broadcasting, print journalism, and music production to create a variety and music station that we love producing and sharing with our listeners all over the world, connecting our global communities at the local level.

We are implementing a hybrid model of support that includes both listener support through our Patreon community and partners and commercial support from local and national businesses to provide quality programming and advertising that prioritizes the needs and interests of our listeners.

Our Commitment to Our Communities

Sandcastle Radio™ was created out of a shared passion for good music of ALL genres and a desire to connect with our local communities around the issues that matter to us and to our listeners. Foremost for us, as musicians and radio broadcasters, is to address an urgent need for compensation for radio presenters and DJs who literally pay out of their own pockets to share their talents and expertise with the world on commercial stations (we're blowin' the lid offa that mess, ya'll! Sorry, not sorry! lol!) We're stone cold serious about this. Three of our presenters/DJs have recently experienced homelessness due to the housing crisis in Florida. We're committed to paying our people for their work and that's where you all come in.

We have a Patreon page here for general support at all levels. Check it out. It's chock full of good stuff.

We are also actively seeking individual and corporate sponsors and partners for our shows and for general programming. Contact us at info@sandcastleradio.org for details on that. And please take a minute to learn about and support our partners, they are the small business, corporate, and not-for-profit rock stars that are putting their money where their mouths are! Thanks y'all. Together we can make a difference in our communities, whether we're in Miami, Detroit, New York City, London, Amsterdam, and beyond!

We rise together.

xo,

Debz and DJ Pete Perez

(Deborah Bassett and Pete Perez)

Owners and Station Directors, Sandcastle Radio™

Meet Our Sandcastle Radio™ Team

Deborah Bassett, Owner, Station Director, Host

Deborah Bassett ("Debz") is a former international journalist, academic, and research scientist with a PhD in communication and a significant body of published academic postdoctoral research in Indigenous health, culture and psychiatry.

Now a multimedia artist, singer/songwriter, musician, published poet, LIVE weekly radio show host, and station owner and director, she also produces original electronic music through her electronic music project Out of Babylon. In 2022, she debuted her popular variety show "The Secret Place" on UK-based First Choice Radio.

Debz is fully committed to supporting other independent artists, in all mediums, and devotes her weekly radio show to showcasing others, so reach out if you wanna talk to her about being a guest on her show in 2023! She welcomes new music of any kind, especially hard rock, experimental, gospel, and world music for her weekly live shows.

"Big love, y'all" <3

Pete Perez, Owner, Station Director, DJ

Deborah Bassett, Owner, Station Director, Host

House music DJ and producer, Pete Perez ("DJ Pete Perez") began his career mixing vinyl in nightclubs in the New York/ New Jersey metropolitan area, including Starbucks (NYC), Quincy's (NJ), Nickel's Alley (NJ), Cyd's (NJ), El Torito's (NYC), and more. His radio experience includes working for New York City Radio Station WBLS 107.5 and as resident DJ on two well-known UK radio stations, First Choice Radio and House Music Radio until 2022. His legendary two-hour live sets that were heard around the world will now be heard every week on Sandcastle Radio! In 2022, he began writing and producing house music and released his debut single "Request" in September 2022. DJ Pete Perez welcomes new music sent to him for consideration in his LIVE weekly indy house music show, "My House."

Oh, and he's fluent in English AND Spanish--Can you say Peruchin?! Que rico!

"Suki, suki now!" ;)

Russ Spillberg, Host

Nell and Kenny Tice, Hosts

Russ Spillberg, Host

Russ Spillberg ("Spillberg") is the CEO of Powerhouse Enterprise, an independent record label and music production company located in Southern Alabama. Spillberg is a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, rapper, producer and audio engineer who has been producing music through Powerhouse Enterprise since 2006. He performs in club venues throughout the Southeast. He has released several hundred tracks ranging from rap to house under his own label and in collaboration with other music producers. His music is available on Spotify.

"Listen!!"

Contact Spillberg to have your original rap tracks considered for his LIVE weekly show focusing on Southeastern rap. And don't miss his late night show "Erotic Nights."

"On Gawd!"

Aaron Stacy, Host

Nell and Kenny Tice, Hosts

Russ Spillberg, Host

Aaron Stacy is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and producer from one the greatest music cities in the world, Detroit, MI. A music lover from a young age, his tastes are eclectic and span nearly every genre and decade. More often than not, however, he gravitates toward the alternative and independent scenes where unique sounds and voices redefine traditional rock and pop music templates.

Aaron’s also the driving talent behind the indie pop rock project, Courtney Can’t Park. Serving as sole songwriter, vocalist, musician, and studio engineer, he’s released two albums under the Courtney Can’t Park banner, 2021’s “Into The Blue” and 2022’s “October Revolution.”

Nell and Kenny Tice, Hosts

Kenny and Nell Tice are YouTubers on a mission to share the stories of their travels through the eyes of a lens, and now microphones! After starting their travel channel in late 2019, the pandemic in early 2020 put a halt to all travel and they began to wonder where this was all going. After purchasing a new camera, and buttoning up their video editing skills, they started their company, enTICEing Media.

Fast forward a couple of years later and Kenny is now an expert in travel hacking and helping people plan their own journeys. Nell is a full-time entrepreneur and host of the What the Nell!? podcast! They travel as much as possible and enjoy sharing their experiences, tips, and tricks for traveling to everyone they can!

Dan Pucciarelli, DJ

Nell and Kenny Tice, Hosts

Dan Pucciarelli ("Pooch")

is a Brooklyn, NY Disco DJ who began spinning in discotheques as early as 1974. He's been the guy behind the mixing and music at countless Brooklyn and Manhattan clubs as well as doing stints overseas

in the UK and in Germany.

DJ Dan "Pooch" Pucciarelli, Board of Director of the Legends of Vinyl Music Hall of Fame representing Legends of Vinyl™, brings his LIVE weekly "Vinyl for Your Brain" show exclusively to

Sandcastle Radio!

JohnKarl, DJ

Dan Pucciarelli, DJ

JohnKarl, DJ

Singer/songwriter Juan Ortiz "JohnKarl," from Levittown, Puerto Rico, brings his unique mix of Spanish rap and dance music to Sandcastle Radio in his exciting weekly LIVE show from Miami, Florida!

Attracted by music in 1991 and inspired by Vico-C and his success, JohnKarl began writing songs and singing with his friends. His first recording in 1997 proved that people wanted to hear more! He began recording in Puerto Rico with Sayko el Terror, Natan, Reynaldo, and Willoman.

By day JohnKarl is an aviation mechanic, by night. . .well, ya'll gonna have to tune in and find out! ;) Todo en Español, baby!

D-Manic, DJ

Dan Pucciarelli, DJ

JohnKarl, DJ

Dean Nicholson ("D-Manic") has been involved with music as a DJ for 38 years, learning to mix at age 11! From his roots in Funk, Rare Groove & Electro to his current genres of Trance, House and all things clubland, he brings a wealth of dance music knowledge and experience to the Sandcastle Family. D-Manic has had releases on Art Recordings, SFR, DeepDownDirty, Emmanating Records, 212 Records and, most recently, on Boomtic Records. D-Manic has been a radio host since 2016, from pure pirate FM to internet radio, as well as honing his presenting skills on a well-known community-licensed FM station. He recently created a new Trance event, Seraphim, alongside his friend Marc Ansell and established brand Amped Global DJ’s. Look for more events in 2023!

Now Sandcastle Radio sees him spread his wings and share his love of music with his brothers and sisters in the USA. Hold on tight for the ride of your lives!

You can find Dean on Facebook, Spotify, and Beatport.

Marc Woodward, Host

Marc ("Marco") joins us from Devon, UK where he is a regular performer on the South West poetry scene and in music/poetry performances. He recalls his early draw to poetry:

"Inspired by Blake’s Tiger, Lewis Carroll’s Walrus, Carpenter and Slithy Toves, and Coleridge’s crusty seafarer, I started writing poetry as a child and recall my first ambition was to be a poet. ‘What do you want to be when you grow up Marc?’ ‘A poet.’ ‘No, I mean for a job…’ So I became a musician instead. A mandolin player. Well."

Marc is an accomplished musician who has gigged all over, recorded numerous sessions and performed and taught internationally. His album "Bluemando" is available on Spotify and Apple. He has worked with filmmakers, musicians, artists, and made his own videos:

Marc also publishes a blog/website www.marcwoodwardpoetry.blogspot.com.

Marc invites poetry submissions to be considered for reading on his show.

Peter Bedard, DJ

Marc Woodward, Host

A Canadian-based DJ listened to by people all over the world, DJ Peter Bedard spins the best in House, Progressive House, Electro, some Trance and Nu Disco as well.
Peter has years spent DJ'ing in the club scene, which has blessed him with the ability to read a crowd and work the dance floor. His followers and club-goers love his musical style which is constantly evolving!

There are no limits, Peter loves to mix his Dance music roots with a pinch of pop, house, progressive house, tech and electronic rhythm, which provides a contagious energy for his audience!

Now DJ Peter Bedard brings his

world-famous show

"The Ascension Energy Mix Show"

to Sandcastle Radio!

Hans Geersing, DJ

Marc Woodward, Host

Hilary Lauren Jastram, Host

Hello, I'm Hans Geersing and I live in the North of Holland (The Netherlands, Europe). Ever since I was a child, I was interested in radio. And therefore, in music!

And now of course also.

A lot of years later, I started with radio making. And I mean much, much later! Anyway, now I have two live radio shows here in Holland, a local radio station and a big internet radio station.

For more info about those radio shows, look at my Facebook page. ;)

I'm very, very happy to make a live radio show on Sandcastle radio!

I really can't wait :):)

The show is called "Euro Express".
With only good pop and dance, and other music, but only from Europe.

From now and yesterday.

Hilary Lauren Jastram, Host

Hilary L. Jastram is the owner of Bookmark Publishing House, specializing in book coaching and inspirational, business-oriented, and knowledge-based books with the occasional sprinkling of delicious fiction. She is an author, contributor to multiple media and hosts Write Effing Now, the podcast that helps you master writing, marketing and publishing one byte at a time. In her spare time, she reads grammatical reference books, hangs with her hubs and kids and canoodles her furbabies. She is a fan of learning and seizing the day and believes you were born with everything you need to live your best life. Her fave color is sunset. Hilary's next book on how to write the best damn book possible, Go Book Yourself, will be available spring 2023.

Greg Campbell, Host

Hilary Lauren Jastram, Host

Greg Campbell, Host

Greg Campbell is an electronic musician and journalist in Boca Raton, FL. About his debut show, he says:

“We’re All Friends Here” sends and receives energy, often in the form of sound. All are welcome, hence the title. We’re here to provide you with listening in many ways from wherever you may be.

Greg's LIVE show will focus on the underground dance and music scene flourishing in South Florida and we can't wait to share it with you all, only on Sandcastle Radio!

Jon Theis, Host

Hilary Lauren Jastram, Host

Greg Campbell, Host

Jon Theis is a singer-songwriter, producer, filmmaker, and now the host of The Honkytonk Hour. Jon has eclectic tastes in music among other things but always seems to gravitate towards good old Honkytonk Country Music.

Jon also loves to produce music including his own records, and also loves to skateboard and make skateboard films as well as producing music videos. Basically always out there chasin’ that neon rainbow in one form or another.

The Honkytonk Hour will feature some classic country favorites but will mostly shine light on independent country music.

While Honkytonk will be our guiding light, Jon will also be playing some other styles of country mixed in, including songs submitted by listeners.

If you would like to submit a song, send a downloadable link or attach the file directly and send to TheHonkytonkHour@Gmail.com.

Rina Blanco, Host

Denni Wintyr, Host

With a background in performance, radio broadcasting, and digital media, Colombia native, Rina Blanco brings a multicultural, bi-lingual flair to her lively talk show where she focuses on the hottest topics in lifestyle, family, and culture.

Join us every Thursday for Rendezvous con Rina: Candid Convos in Spanglish! to listen in on (and join in on!) the kinds of conversations you'll be talking about for days afterwards!

Follow Rina on her TikTok and YouTube channels for more great content!

Denni Wintyr, Host

Denni Wintyr has been burning in the background of the New Zealand music scene for quite some time, known for her blazing lead guitar skills and unique vocal delivery.

She's the guitarist, vocalist, and main songwriter of the multinational, New Zealand-based, all-female classic heavy metal band, WintyrQueen. The band is currently working on their debut album.

Learn more about the band's music at their

Bandcamp page.

Denni will be hosting Wintyr's Witching Hour every week, LIVE from Wellington, NZ and featuring the best in classic and new heavy metal music from around the world!

Lisa Welsh, Host

Denni Wintyr, Host

Lisa Welsh, Host

Lisa Welsh is a sex and pleasure educator in Durban, South Africa and is dedicated to helping people banish shame, build self-worth and develop confidence in and out of the bedroom. She has a playful approach to sexuality that helps people let down their guard and get curious about things that usually make them blush.

She was the Communication Manager for the 2021 Congress of the World Association for Sexual Health and is a copywriter for My Sexual Health. Lisa is the host of the "In Bed With Lisa" podcast, which will air FIRST on Sandcastle Radio every Thursday! She is a sought-after guest on talk shows and podcasts and has been featured in Glamour UK and The Shameless Sex Podcast.