Halshack Indie Rockcast

100th episode spectacular!! Battleshack 3 is here!  Best of the new artists over the last 2 years!! 90 artists and this is your TOP 10 playlist built by fans and important people in the business! A full bio will be out soon! Just enjoy!  Along with SHACKCREDIBLES 3 will be out soon!!

ALERT!! ALERT!! All-new music and several new acts to the show and the country series! SHACK COUNTRY 2 get it now for stream or download! Country seems to be the new home of diversity in the music world. It seems to be the only place where rock and old school pop undertones are still allowed to shine and thrive. We've seen some major changes to the country/folk/bluegrass landscape over the years w...

Well Happy Birthday to me!! I'm turning 50 you see!! It's time for the gift of music! It's time for the RAP SHACK 3!!  Pretty good for Gen X to flex past what you see to get to your ears that will agree!  Music is what my Gen is known for! You will not find a more knowledgeable person about the music industry than a Gen X native. One could say that most of us never really grew up! We've managed to...

ALERT ALERT!! (Halshack Records presents- "first ever created" track with DUSTIN WUTSCHKE produced and Cristina Soto on vocals! EXCLUSIVE MUSIC ---- DANCE/CLUB/POP SHOW!! Ep 23.5 (Shake it Shack) Sept 2021 Well well, would you look at me not dwell on the usual way of doing business around the Halshack! We're gonna "club" it out this time! Keeping with the summer theme let's have one last party to...

 ALERT ALERT!! ---------ALL-NEW  music bonus show!! Ep 23.5 (Dare to Be Squared) Aug 26, 2021-- Special bonus introduction from yours truly As fate and destiny would have it, a little birdie must have landed on Sarah Woods desk at BSQUARED MGMT and tweeted in her phone to look up the Halshack! I'm not sure how she found me yet whether it was the little twitter bird or the book of many faces...(lol...

BRAND NEW MUSIC ALERT!! Ep 23.5 BIG BLUE SKA- Get your summer ska/reggae fix here! Probably my favorite style of music! This show covers various influences from ska, reggae, funk and blues! Its summer time and this is a great show to go along with Ep 22.5 SUMMERSCAPES! Let's continue the party here! The never ending party that is the Halshack!! SEE WATER is back after a 2 year hiatus! Check them o...

ALERT ALERT!! Brand new music alert!! Ep 23 (Destiny's Fate) Aug 2021 - full talk and music "super special" ********WARNING 18+***********  (Explicit Content!!! and heavy deep subject matter, some language) Where do I begin? ....lol  Its been a long tough almost 7 years since I started this podcast with lots of ups and downs to say the least. There have been many very weird strange coincidences as...

BRAND NEW SHOW ALERT!! BRITISH INVASION Ep 22.5 JULY 2021 The British are coming!! The British are coming!! Let the reverie begin for all music lovers who will hear these great sounds and bands from our fine talented friends from "across the pond"!! Its nearing the 4th of July here in the states as we celebrate our great yet tattered country that has much rebuilding to do but we are Americans and...

Well it's the first day of summer folks and considering how I'm on a train headed for somewhere relevant in the music industry, its only fitting that we all hop on this train together to the top with yours truly....lol Summertime is a great time for traveling or just lying around doing "absolutely nothing"! The world has many wonderful sights for your eyes and sounds for your ears (so do the kids...

HAPPY FATHERS DAY DADS!! Congratulations!! If you're reading this then we made it to 2021 and hopefully past all the bullcrap and the nonsense that had us all down the last 2 years!! Well lets "cut the crap" as us Dads like to say and show off only the finest in unknown rock this 3rd time around for another jaunt into my library and my headspace of vast musical knowledge of nuances and rock flair....

Warning!!!! ADULT CONTENT 18+ Well if you're in the mood for thumpin' down the highway or you just want to thump your bedroom with your love then look no further! I put together this special show off a cue from a new friend who has a very sexually based podcast. It's something I've often thought about doing but waiting to get the right music together for it. So here you go. Have a little fun on th...

Hear ye! Hear ye! POPIFY 6 is NOW on the list! It sure is bliss and one show you will NOT want to miss!....lol (I just had to, that was too easy)...lol Its been out now for almost a year on TAMBR, its time now it can go to the feed so I hope you folks enjoy this romp through pop rock, alt rock, indie pop, dance pop etc.... like none other you will find anywhere on the planet!!! ONLY THE BEST WILL...

MAY the fourth BE WITH YOU!!...lol Official release of the exclusive radio show (Double Trouble). Its Star Wars day and of course my show has something to do with Star Wars (huge fan...lol) and the song titles and it just so happens to be time to release this to the world! "I can't explain my life folks! I just live it"...lol Well, in light of Star Wars Day, its time to shed the sabers light on th...

(*****WARNING!! EXPLICIT CONTENT*****) Hey folks! One more round from the REVERBNATION SUBMISSION CAMPAIGN of rap and R&B artists for your ears to soak up and enjoy! More singing this time and less rap doesn't make it any less of a great show! There wasn't as much rap material for "radio" left to work with in the mix but what I did discover is some of the finest R&B talent I've heard in ma...

Hey folks! One more round from the REVERBNATION SUBMISSION CAMPAIGN of mainstream artists for your rock alt pop and even a little country thrown in there in the middle! We had almost 4000 entries and a total of 65 made the cut across all genres!! Well done!! Its a blast only my ears and knowledge can craft and conjure up for you to enjoy curated by me into a special flow that makes my trademark so...

<<<<<<>>>>>> Brand new!! SHACKNATION vol 2 Mar 2021 2-hour extravaganza!!!!! Full talk and music episode!! Well you have been waiting for this for the last 2 months!! Its finally here!! The best of the best! Its the official REVERBNATION submission campaign show!! Over 3500 submissions! I pulled out 17 (the flyers state 16) but there's a BONUS SECRET SURPRISE ba...

Welcome to the first ever Shack Country!! Official campaign with top indie music company Reverbnation has brought us some fresh talent to work with and expose. I already had half the artists in this show on my roster so I found just enough ACE quality acts that could hold their own to make my quality cut!! Country is alive and kickin' here on the HALSHACK! I find the best acts from all over the wo...

WORLD PREMIERE!!!!! Welcome to the all-new first ever RAP SHACK! Bet you thought I didn't know HIP HOP! Ha! (I can't help I'm the music man..lol) With the help of the official REVERBNATION SUBMISSION CAMPAIGN for FEB/MAR 2021, I was able to put this all together for this HUGE first ever event! Thanks for all the support! HALSHACK has been granted another rare opportunity to "break out" a star! LIL...

Vol 8 is great and the last in the Halphabet Shack series running down a list of all the bands that have ever been featured on my show over my 6 years as a podcast! There are some new songs in this show and some long time favorites! The VEER UNION serving up 2 NEW tracks!! They are epic!! You will love it! Have fun on my "roll-a-dex" of bands! My fans sure have over the last half decade!! Check ou...

Happy Valentines Day to my lovely fanbase of cupids and cupettes...lol Anyone who knows me, knows I have the biggest HEART full of love and compassion so I always do something special for Valentines Day. Why would this year be any different so we got some new tunes as usual with a very cool (instrumental) from the master of the sitar (Roger Jaeger). Well it's been 2 years since the love of my life...

Well well here's a swell idea!! Lets have a fun little party with all the long standing HALSHACK artists that have been discovered on REVERBNATION by yours truly over the last 4 years!! Ive toiled and boiled over thousands and thousands of bands to find these ABSOLUTE STANDOUTS who are on the same level as or better than their professional counterpart!! NO JOKE!! I'VE SPENT THE LAST 4 YEARS OF MY...

NEW MUSIC ALERT! BRAND NEW SONGS!! Your ears are going to think you died and went to heaven over the new songs and sounds in episode 7!...lol Its a fabulous mix of great tunes from the next group of my talented acts from A to Z! (S-U) is sure to give you a clue that if you haven't heard the Halshack before then you are in for quite a score!! Have fun getting to know our great bands and solo artist...

No 6 in the A to Z jamboree! Vol 6 is bliss as we blaze a trail through the canvas landscape of colorful bands and sounds! Its letters R through S as we make a mess of the playlist and your ears. Its not curated, its a noise factory eargasm of different styles and bands throughout the history of my popular show for the last 6 years! Have fun and lets look forward to a productive and busy 2021! Fin...

HAPPY NEW YEAR!! Well we made it!! DANG!! What a year its been! Lets try to start 2021 off with a bang!! Brand new show to ring out the last day of the year including all new songs and a special Christmas/New Years treat from one of our ace bands!! Keeping on with the "letter series" and these worldly bands of the world and the written word!!...lol Its Vol. 5 of HALPHABET SHACK (P-R) (3 more to go...

Happy Holidays everyone! It's been a battle to get through this challenging year of 2020 so over the summer the bands battled it out in my new video series!! SHACKVIDS What is Shackvids you ask? Well you remember MTV right? Real MTV like it used to be? Videos all the time with credits on the vids and animations in between and music all the time! Well I've recreated that nostalgia with all my bands...