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 London, Central PA, Chicago, Seattle, Florida, and around the world! We are America's Hottest Online Variety and Music Station! Tune in now!
Sandcastle Radio® was created out of a shared passion for good music of ALL genres and a belief in the importance of independent, live radio to build stronger communities.
Our international 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 produce and broadcast 26 LIVE original programs every week and are on the air worldwide 24 hours a day, commercial-free!
Our mission at Sandcastle Radio is to have fun, play music, celebrate life, and connect our communities with LOVE and LIVE radio!
We are commercial-free, musician-owned, independent radio and are LISTENER-SUPPORTED through our Patreon community. We invite you to check it out! Interested in show sponsorship? Contact us at info@sandcastleradio.org.
Let's keep independent radio on the air!
Debz and DJ Pete Perez
(Deborah Bassett and Pete Perez)
Owners and Station Directors, Sandcastle Radio®
Sandcastle Radio co-founder and co-owner 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.
She is also a multi-disciplinary and multi-media artist with artwork regularly exhibited in juried shows in galleries in the Southeast and has been featured in print publications.
From 2022 to 2024, she aired her popular live interview show "The Secret Place" every week, profiling nearly 200 independent artists, authors, and creatives around the world.
Her Sunday morning live Gospel show is a worldwide listener favorite and she welcomes new music from independent Gospel artists.
An avid yoga and meditation devotee, Debz handles the eclectic wellness programming that airs
every Wednesday on Sandcastle Radio. Reach out to her if your business offers wellness services and would like to discuss partnership.
She also co-hosts a lively Friday morning chat show with co-owner Pete Perez. Tune every Friday morning in to hear all the latest news from the Sandcastle Radio Team!
"Big love, y'all" <3
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 are now heard every Saturday night on Sandcastle Radio's exclusive "Saturday Night House Party, LIVE with DJ Pete Perez"!
In addition to his popular house party, Pete Perez co-hosts "Weekend Chit-Chat with Debz & Pete" on Friday mornings and hosts "Classic Rock with Pistol Pete" on Friday nights.
In 2022, he began writing and producing house music and released his debut single "Request" in September 2022.
Oh, and he's fluent in English AND Spanish--Can you say Peruchin?! Que rico! Tune in Thursday evenings for more about that!
"Suki, suki now!" ;)
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
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 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.
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 mus
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!
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 Re
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!
Zach Smith grew up as a skate punk in Pensacola Florida, going to every local show he could find and supporting the scene for years.
After having graduated from SAE Institute, Nashville for Audio Engineering, he is now an independent multimedia production artist in the Chicago area.
Staying true to the heart of punk rock, he now opera
Zach Smith grew up as a skate punk in Pensacola Florida, going to every local show he could find and supporting the scene for years.
After having graduated from SAE Institute, Nashville for Audio Engineering, he is now an independent multimedia production artist in the Chicago area.
Staying true to the heart of punk rock, he now operates in a person-to-person fashion working with one artist at a time to support and facilitate the realization of their ideas. Tune in to his live punk rock show,
Still Just a Punk Rock Kid every Thursday on Sandcastle Radio!
Some say Jackson Stewart was abandoned as an infant, discovered in a basket made of old, broken 78 r.p.m. records beneath the pedal steel guitar at a Johnny Cash show in Seattle, Washington.
Some say Jax is the forbidden love child of former Pacific Northwest residents Merle Haggard and Loretta Lynn.
Some say that, as a precocious
Some say Jackson Stewart was abandoned as an infant, discovered in a basket made of old, broken 78 r.p.m. records beneath the pedal steel guitar at a Johnny Cash show in Seattle, Washington.
Some say Jax is the forbidden love child of former Pacific Northwest residents Merle Haggard and Loretta Lynn.
Some say that, as a precocious pre-teen, he was apprehended a number of times sneaking into shows by the likes of Muddy Waters, Ray Charles, and Tom Petty.
Some say they see him skulking about in taverns, clubs, honky-tonks, and house parties all over Seattle seeking out great music.
Some even say they have seen him in various roadhouses along the trans-america interstate 90 highway, sharing a Rainier beer with Squatch. [Of these claims we are dubious -editor]
Some say Jax is one of only a handful of people holding a key to the “The Vault”, a mythical compound located 1 mile deep in the volcanic bedrock of Mount St. Helens containing vast stores of legendary recordings, bequeathed to him by the late Mojo Nixon during a night of competitive drinking aboard Mojo’s last, fatal Outlaw Country Cruise out of Miami, Florida. [We are less dubious about these claims - editor]
Now, having been reclaimed from the smoldering ash-heap of terrestrial radio, and several state run institutions, by Sandcastle Radio founders Deborah Bassett and Pete Perez, Ol’ Jax has sworn a blood oath to play only the best and most sublime Americana, Blues, Outlaw, Red-Clay, and Country Soul music for the devoted Sandcastle listeners.
The Blue Boulevard, Live from the Great Pacific Northwest, every Sunday at 1 p.m. Central, 11 a.m. Pacific.
David Collado, better known as DJ DavidC, is one of the Gulf Coast's most influential Latin DJs. Born in NYC, raised in West New York NJ with parents of both Puerto Rican and Dominican backgrounds and a U.S Navy Veteran, DJ DavidC has always had a joy for music.
Growing up on the influence on Latin music. Bachata - Merengue
David Collado, better known as DJ DavidC, is one of the Gulf Coast's most influential Latin DJs. Born in NYC, raised in West New York NJ with parents of both Puerto Rican and Dominican backgrounds and a U.S Navy Veteran, DJ DavidC has always had a joy for music.
Growing up on the influence on Latin music. Bachata - Merengue - Salsa- also with R&B And Hip Hop, his wide range of different genres has propelled him to adapt and entertain all types of crowds from private parties - nightclubs - to festivals!
Dj DavidC is a well-established DJ with more than 10 years of experience performing throughout the Gulf Coast Panhandle from Panama City - Tallahassee - Fort Walton Beach - Pensacola - into parts of Alabama and Mississippi, and also performing for MWR on N.A.S. Navy Air Station.
His original, LIVE show with Sandcastle Radio brings the very best in Bachata music to the global airwaves every week!
Neon has been on live radio since he was knee high to a grasshopper! He loves researching the many facets of the metal scene and sharing with his listeners every Friday on Metalhead! Reach him at info@sandcastleradio.org and GET HEADBANGIN!
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We are always scouting new talent to join our incredible team! Passion and a genuine commitment to grassroots, independent, live radio and teamwork is what we are looking for, even over professional radio experience! If you think you have what it takes to be part of our worldwide team who shares a mission to have fun playing music, celebr
We are always scouting new talent to join our incredible team! Passion and a genuine commitment to grassroots, independent, live radio and teamwork is what we are looking for, even over professional radio experience! If you think you have what it takes to be part of our worldwide team who shares a mission to have fun playing music, celebrating life and connecting our diverse communities with love and live radio, reach out to us.
If you are looking for opportunities to volunteer for either Sandcastle Radio or our nonprofit, Radio Is Not Dead, Inc., in our Pensacola studios or remotely, we would also love to hear from you!
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