Halshack Indie Rockcast
Welcome to the Halshack where it "Feels like Fridays" everyday! We're bringing the "new 90's" back to the radio airwaves! We are not your "typical" radio station!
This is a unique blend of hundreds of current artists formed over the last 10 years that are all curated here under one roof (some of the best "unknown" artists on the planet all in one place!) It's taken over 10 years and 30,000 artists to connect with these superior level acts that represent the best examples of nostalgia and new vibes working today)
We even have some large name bands helping our plight, Drowning Pool, From Ashes to New, #1 Billboard rock band Cavo and many more! Super grateful!
We are honored to have formulated these connections and this quality team to represent the music industry here at home in Lexington NC and the global world market! Dive in!!
Find the tracklist on the brand new retool of the Shacklists page on Halshack.com
(broken down into themes, genres, series and subcategories)
Most people don't know there are 3 Halshack channels (rock, country, club)
Go favorite all 3 stations on the app! Take us with you in the car or at the gym or anywhere!
Current daily news.....Monday Dec 1 --All new Shack Stop ep 104 (90 min show) at 2pm ET and 10pm ET on Halshack!
Re-jam shows all day (Shackjam remakes with no talking)
Triple Play Thursday (repeat last week) 3:30pm- 6:30pm ET
Emily's Picks (Indie Flavors 3, Gen X Dayzzz, Wonder Shack 3)
Shackstop 104- new weekly show (2nd airing-10pm ET)
Preachervan - 30 min special Shackstars series 11:30pm ET
Tuesday Dec 2- Double Trouble and Dynamic Duos on shuffle mix all day long starting at midnight ET!
Ready Set Rock-- 7pm ET till midnight! (Rock out all evening!!)
Wednesday Dec 3- Wonder Pop all day from 12am till 3pm! (mix of Wonder Shack and Pop Stop shows)
Shack Stop ep 104 -- 3pm ET (brand new weekly show for all our radio networks)
Way Back Wednesday-- 4:30pm ET till 10pm ET (classic side of the Halshack)
DJ Master Renegade-- 10pm ET -Wed night Trance Session Mix (exclusive show)
Halshack at 12am ET
Thurs Dec 4 .....Triple Threat Thursday
(1 hour shows 3 bands each covering a 5 to 6 song spotlight on each act)
TRIPLE PLAY THURSDAY at 4pm ET --new theme series focusing on special picks from our affiliate contributors like Emily (writer) Greg (announcer) Sean (station owner of MXTR FM) and more. Different picks each week from different professional sources.
Today the picks are from Hal Jester (Halshack) He has chosen (these will all be music only shows) --no hosting in these versions
Lost Ways 1 (2023)- mixed genre show about being lost in life
Wonder Shack 7 (2024)- mixed genre potential hits
Shackjam 29 (KERB) Don't You Forget (2025)-
song titles with don't you and forget in the titles
Shack Stop 104- 7:00pm ET- New weekly show (re-run)
Triple Threat Thursday continues -9pm- midnight ET
Friday Dec 5 - Rock out day till 12am Midnight!
SHACKSTOP is new show name! New episode count will start at 100 since its our 100th weekly episode combined!
New expansions coming to the format! We have dropped the rap off the rap channel and converted it to a full time CLUB SHACK channel!
New theme day coming! Triple Play Thursday at 4pm ET where staff members pick 3 shows for your enjoyment each week! Catch Emily's picks this week on Thursday afternoon!
All new segments have been added to the 90 min show including a rotating theme or genre segment (new 2 for Tunesday songs and bands will appear in anew segment) along with songs from Triple Play Thursday picks!
See new schedule below!!
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75 plus hours of new content on the station since Oct 7th
Kicking off Rejam and Non Stop Pop series (bonus show editions) of the original full episodes with no hosting...no need to keep rehashing old news!
Find the originals on the podcast feed on Zeno Fm, Iheart, Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Podomatic, Deezer and many more!
WARNING!!!!!!- (Some of these shows will have strange music shifts because the audio host context was removed from the show...so the flow will not match a normal bonus show that's curated into a proper flow by me) episodes 1-45 (Pop Stop) and 50 (Shackjam) for both series are now complete and in rotation!
We have been on Zeno since late 2023. In that time we've had over 6000 markets in 190 countries to discover Halshack! They love the station. Some folks stay on for hours! Who does that in radio??!! We're very honored!!!
Don't let the rock moniker scare you off (if that's not your thing) Its not just rock, we cover most popular genres in a different mix of shows. Could be rock or pop straight through or a mix of rock, pop, alternative and more.
We have hosted shows with music by the owner of the station (Hal Jester aka Halshack) but most shows are music only! How do you find the track names and bands you ask?? SUPER EASY----- Halshack.com/shacklists (Just scroll the page, you will find the playlist in a category or chronological order)
We help new bands and artists get a foot hold in the industry! We make no money at this! We're here to help bands for the passion of the music. Bands that have little to no voice but are quality enough to become a household name if given the chance!
We've also gotten lucky with some BIG scores of names to help bolster our station and help these bands grow! DROWNING POOL, FROM ASHES TO NEW, CAVO and many more big names back our station with credits! We're honored to have them on the team! We do theme shows and much more!
We have weekly shows that air on Halshack here at Zeno along with 99.9 KERB in Houston TX and MXTR-FM and Washington DC that air Mondays at 2pm ET and Wednesdays at 3pm ET!
We have over 400 bands and solo artists also 100 rappers we're helping!
You peeps are awesome! Thanks for the vote of confidence to make your day better! Its my duty to put a smile on at least one person's face everyday! I live for it!
We work with bands and artists in 16 countries! Its all radio ready material built for commercial success! We have many BRIT and CANADIAN bands!! We love you guys and gals! Thanks for being on the team!
Hang out! Let the station play for hours like so many do! You will discover a new music universe you never knew existed!
We aim to give you a different kind of radio experience! Bringing back the 90s baby but in an ALL NEW format with ALL NEW bands and songs!
Weekly theme schedule! Some days rotate or it just doesnt happen depending on life issues..lol
SUNDAYS and MONDAYS
Sunday Funday and Monday Funday
Random shows all day long!
Mondays 2pm EST SHACKSTOP weekly show (KERB and Halshack)
Re-run (Triple Play Thursday)--3:30pm ET
TUESDAYS- 2 for Tunesday
Dynamic Duos and Double Trouble series
READY SET ROCK (helping a friend with his store)
READY SET SORT --Lexington NC
7pm-12am midnight! (Rock out!!) all night to various rock genres from classic to retro to hard rock to numetal and all between!
WEDNESDAYS
Shackstop weekly show 3pm (MXTR FM and Halshack)
Wonder Shack (mixed hits series)
Way Back Wednesday (classic 80s and retro)
Non Stop Pop series (all pop stops retooled with no hosting--music only)
DJ MASTER RENEGADE (MXTR-FM)
weekly show on Halshack 10pm ET
Catch Halshack special show at 12am ET (following Renegade)
THURSDAYS- Triple Threat Thursday
(3 bands each spotlight shows)
TRIPLE PLAY THURSDAY (4pm- 7pm ET)- staff picks 3 shows each week
FRIDAYS- ROCK OUT!
Mix of Wonder Shack, Rockwaves series
and more rock goodness!
SATURDAYS- Super Shackerday..lol
SKATURDAY (we love ska/reggae)
SHACKSTARS series (full 30 min or 1 hour compilations)
Theme shows as well!
The major labels have dropped the ball and are no longer doing their jobs and that's to bring you bands like these like they used too! We come from that background! We don't understand whats happened to their business model but its no longer about providing the music fan with a real service for the world!
I've scoured the globe between a number of personal and music business connections throughout the industry over the last 15 YEARS to the tune of 30,000 bands! Found a few hundred that are either "one hit wonders" or have multiple hits spanning years in their collective libraries! Most of these acts could be TOP 100 or TOP 10 BILLBOARD type unknown "contenders" for any time point back to the 70s/80s up to the current music sphere! Indie bands are the pioneers of so many styles and innovations! They should be leading the way!
We at HALSHACK make a promise to YOU to never let that passion die!
WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! (JESTERMAN9000@GMAIL.COM)
The show is growing strong across the world on the podcast feed from Iheart to Itunes to Amazon Music to Podomatic and many more! The show has reached over 500 cities in 100 countries on the podcast feed! All new episodes are on the podcast feed and will be featured here on the station as well! I fired up this station on Zeno back in late 2020 but multiple complications kept the channel from growing! I've updated the bio as well as all current shows!
The current format will have a multiple genre rotation of shows with theme days and weekends or constant rotation of the last 3 years worth of shows! The shows may rotate forward or backward. We will have marathon events or indie themed days or rock shows only or country or rap/ hip-hop and many other type mixes of all the great more current episodes of the Halshack!
There are thousands of songs on rotation in this assortment of episodes uploaded to showcase the shows growth over the last 3 years! You may hear the episode changing to something you don't like. Give it a song or two and it will roll onto something else. TRUST ME!! Each segment changes every 20 minutes. Each episode is built by ME (Hal) to keep the show continuity and my special signature flow I'm becoming world renown for! Again big THANK YOU to all my fans and bands for making this possible!
I've been building my own personal relationships with "A-list" indie bands across the world for the last 10 years!!! This is a UNIQUE mix of over 500 artists roughly over the last 10 years the show has been "up" and Ive done it all for FREE!! This has been an amazing grassroots effort from alot of professionals in the industry to springboard us forward! Ive earned partners who are ex major label reps who jumped on with me to help grow our own universe! Some of the artists are very mainstream and others lean to the indie side of things! Its up to you to find your happy music place!
Reverbnation owner Lou Plaia contacted me personally to run official radio submission campaigns for his company back in Nov 2020. First campaign started in Jan 2021 and had the first show for the company in Mar 2021! We went from 120 artists I had spent 7 years hand curating to now 450 almost 3 years later representing 15 countries! Every single artist has been curated and chosen by my ears only either because they had a viable hit for one show or they have a library that never ends that sees continual play across multiple years of my history. Songs are chosen based on the theme of the show and their rotation in the schedule. I try not to overplay tunes so some of the really BIG hits on my show don't get annoying or overbearing to the listener!
Ive been lucky enough to earn projects produced by or backed credits or collab songs from major stars lending their efforts to these indie bands or I work directly with the band itself. Stevie Nicks, Frankie Muniz, Belinda Carlisle, Eminem, Cavo, Drowning Pool, From Ashes to New, Thrower, Lil Zane, Nic Collins (son of Phil Collins) and many more!! I'm very honored!!
Hope you jump on the Halshack bandwagon! Were bringing a successful festival to North Carolina with (my personal team and local business owners) that will not be cancelled like the Wampus Cat, the HIGH ROCK MUSIC FEST is coming August 2024 with CAVO as a headliner!!
You can find every tracklist at my website under SHACLKISTS! Each show has its own list and there are displayed in order of release! The quickest way to get there search google "halshack shacklists" or right here
www.halshack.com/shacklists
www.halshack.com
