Halshack Indie Rockcast

DADS ROCK 2 feat. CAVO (new song) Its June, Its FATHER'S DAY month and DADS love rock in all its forms plus DADS just plain rock at life (most of us anyway..lol) 

In this episode you will hear from major rock band CAVO (former WB), BELOW 7 (Sony), MARQUIS of VAUDEVILLE (Dexter and Charmed) JR RICHARDS (former lead hit song Counting Blue Cars--DISHWALLA) plus Baltimore's #1 rock band CRASHING ATLAS (new Evanessence type band) also many other great bands!

HAPPY FATHERS DAY!!!

Time for a story bio......... 
(I usually make these story bios off the cuff..lets see if I can work some magic here...lol)

As Dads and as all people in general we sometimes find ourselves battling our own demons to be set free. Sometimes those battles can be lengthy and hard fought nights of depression and decay to the body spent enduring "100 Weeks in the Dark". In order to find your way to the light you may have to thrown down some "Kerosene" to fire up your path forward to a new life and possibly a new found love and support with feelings of bliss as you tread forward to that lovely emotional state of "Bliss Chemical". 

Be careful to not allow the negativity back in your life. As soon as things get better the "Wolves" come to tear apart everything that you love. Our younger "Millennial" friends, cousins, brothers and sisters,  have had a tougher time at life than we Xers have in some respects but hats off to them for managing to survive this cold yet web connected world. They still remember a time when we didn't type out our hand written "Letters to Penelope". 

We never know what the future may hold. "Where We're Standing Now" may not necessarily be the place you're supposed to be. You may have to get "a Little High and a Little Low" before you find where to plant your roots as have I and many of us have from all walks of life. Many of us have found a "White Light" at the end of the tunnel in love and relationships whether it be lovers, friends, or family but sometimes those lights come in the form of powder burns when their words sting like "Bullets". It may make you feel like you are not being validated and going "Unnoticed" for your contribution. Take a second to think about how you respond or what your next move is. The world can be a huge scary place when facing it alone with your "Lonely Bones".

This world is demanding, life is demanding, jobs are demanding, it can feel like its a bit too much and leaving us looking for some "Sanity in Madness" that is the state of today. In the end, life is what you make it. Go out there and conquer the world as I have so you can say look at "What I've Become" rather than "Falling" on your face so you will "Never Look Back" to your old life of negative mind state and hard times. This is a new world folks! I don't know what it means for us Xers and how we fit in but lets hear some great music and great bands while we bring you some "New Blood" to conquer the music industry!

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 Well folks I had 13 mins to use on Amazon or lose it! So I'm using it to my advantage! 

UNDECIDED FUTURE could well be on their way to a MAJOR career in the music industry!
Halshack is in the process of helping the band achieve their goals on stage and behind the scenes. I have become an integral part of the camp as we look to push forward together!!

There WAS a VERY REAL possibility that the band would have been on the AMERICAN SONG CONTEST on NBC Spring 2022! BUT they were taken off the show to work with DRE and SNOOP! So good they just bypassed the competition all together!! 

Their future is looking mighty FRESH indeed!

So here's a 13 minute mash up for the guys that will surely please avid music lovers of all types. 

1. Summa Time (intro) with voice clips and show tags
2. Intoxicated 
3. Bouncin'
4. HMU aka Hit Me Up
5. Look Up (outro) 

 EXCLUSIVE NEW SONG from "CAVO" (WORLD PREMIERE)! Frankie Muniz from FOX TV in the first song on drums with the band KINGSFOIL!!

Ep 3 in my new eclectic AMAZON/ZENO FM exclusive series! Its all potential hits in their given genres and top quality tunes that you have come to love on my show!

Well well, the band CAVO has come back to swell your ears with good vibes and rock bliss!!

I'm so honored to have these rock heavyweights now on my team!!

2021 is looking bright as we kick off the new year with some great tracks and a world premiere exclusive from famous St. Louis rock act CAVO!!

Thanks so much to the label and their promoter for reaching out to HALSHACK for this momentous event  and more famous credit to add to the quality roster that is HALSHACK!

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WAMPUS CAT has been POSTPONED till Fall due to rain coming all week and the weekend! We are very sorry to announce this unfortunate news. We hope to see you there at a later date. The concert WILL happen! This legendary CAT will be seen one day in Lee County!!

We got a new date!! AUG 5-7th!! Be there!!

Almost time for the WAMPUS CAT MUSIC FESTIVAL (5/13-5/15)  Thought I'd squeeze out the last REVERBNATION CAMPAIGN #3 show before we head to the fest!! Campaign #4 is on the way!! Starting very soon! 

In this show you will hear some diff styles and genres I don't normally touch on but every so often. Lots of cool blues and reggae in this one. Some of the best horn work Ive heard in my life is in ANOTHER NIGHT by Alexandrina. More new tracks from Eddie and Cassy London from the last episode.  This show has Nic Collins (Phil Collins son) as a drummer in a new band BETTER STRANGERS. Lots to hear and LOVE! 

Ill be on stage at the WAMPUS CAT in Sanford, NC!! See you there!

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 BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!! Event has been CANCELLED due to bad weather! I am heartbroken Sanford and Lee County!! 

I have ZERO affiliation with the events company who was sponsoring the festival. I was merely volunteering my services because 4 of my bands were on the ticket. I grew up in Sanford so I wanted to help ensure they had a great event. Its very unfortunate that the events company took a major financial blow and had to shutter their doors. I had ZERO involvement in any of that. Just a radio station like the local Iheart radio sponsors trying to help!

LISTEN UP..... AMAZON MUSIC and IHEART RADIO and ITUNES and all HALSHACK channels!! WE GOT A HUGE FESTIVAL EVENT COMING!! 

Well Its Season 4 Ep 26 being released on April 26th (4-26) Hows that for the BEST unplanned timing!! I also fell into a HUGE festival event! Its the WAMPUS CAT MUSIC FEST coming to North Carolina! Many Halshack acts made the ticket including Seth and Sara, the City limit, Crashing Atlas, and Below 7. Catch them all plus 70 other acts including headliners LIT, EVERCLEAR and SISTER HAZEL! 

In this episode you will hear new acts from the latest Reverbnation Campaign #3 and the Halshack acts from the Wampus Cat that will be playing as well as 3 new acts I found that will be at the upcoming festival to include on my quality team. JR RICHARDS (from DISHWALLA) will be at the fest and hes in my show!! I'm stoked!!

Iheart Radio will be there, Several radio stations will be there, I will be there presenting some of the bands on stage! Gonna be the biggest party NC has seen in years!!

Get you half price tickets now (only 65 bucks parking included to go all weekend) Tix on sale through May 1st then back to full price after! 

2 for the price of 1 tickets (GET THEM NOW)!! 

Tent and RV packages available as well! 

www.wampuscatmusicfestival.com

Starts Fri May 13th, 2022 at 11am and ends Sun May 15th at 9pm! 

Gross Farms
3345 Rosser Pittman Rd
Broadway, NC (just south of Sanford)

SEE You there!! 

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Its Reverb campaign number 3 and these raps are beast that most would agree! Almost 2000 submissions and these select few were chosen. Only the best beats and raps for the Halshack!

All new artists with new tunes to the show. New styles this time around too. We got some jazz and alt pop infused hip hop!! Cutting edge music and genres are what my show has become famous for. 

We got a new Spotify playlist series coming called the FIRE SHACK featuring the best of the RAP SHACK series! 

Brand new ep 26 Shacknation vol 6 and 7 will be coming next!

Be sure to catch me out "live" at the Wampus Cat Music Festival next month May 13-15th in Sanford NC! Over 70 acts!! All weekend festival. Tent and RV packages available!

Ill be there on stage presenting 4 quality Halshack acts including Below 7 and Crashing Atlas!!

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Halshack is Playin' with FIRE!! Double Sam action with the fiery sounds of SAM TINNESZ along with SAM and SOUNDS floating on Cloud 9 in the UK! Both Sams have been part of my quality team for some time now. Sam Tinnesz has been "blowing out" his hot "hits" all over my show for the last 3 years!!

Music is life and life is music for many! Space and the cosmos hold the building blocks for life as we know it here on planet Earth. The elements are varied and mixed from water to fire to earth to the very air we breathe. These musicians work hard to breathe these elements into their craft to bring to you here on the HALSHACK.

The elements bring passion to our music and our lives to create rich stories and vibrant lyrics with soaring melodies in some tunes or just "badass" vibes in others!!...lol

We owe everything to space and the planet Earth and all the chemistry it gives us in life, love, and pure enjoyment of all things elemental!!

Rock on or play with fire or just chill in the sunshine! However you do life, do it with the Halshack!!

EP 26 coming soon!! All new music from the 3rd Reverbnation campaign! We picked up another star!! BELINDA CARLISLE of "the GO GOs" is back in a duo act with Gabe Lopez!! We got new station ID tags coming from my partner Greg Goodell,. We also got a former American Idol from Season 13 returning to the scene on my show AANNNDDDD we got a brand new "exclusive series" coming to SPOTIFY soon. Its being sponsored by my partner MIKE HOFFMAN at MLM ENTERTAINMENT! First up will be the FIRE SHACK (best of Rap Shack series) 

There will be a slew of genre specific shows all with their own name and special series of music!

Also be sure to catch 2 Halshack acts passing through NC on the weekend of May 13-15th
CRASHING ATLAS and The CITY LIMIT will both be on the indie stage at the Wampus Cat Music Festival in Broadway NC just outside of Sanford! (my old stomping grounds where I grew up)

Always more news to come!! The indie grassroots movement that is the Halshack will never stop!!

Find my show all over the web including ITUNES, IHEART, and AMAZON MUSIC (many more...) as well as the show home PODOMATIC!

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Find me on social media...say hi!

If you got music and you want on my show then find me anywhere or email me! Im not hard to locate or to talk too either! I dont make any promises Ill accept your music. It all depends on what you create!

Have fun! Be safe this spring!! The elements can be nasty this time of year!!

If most of you don't already know Im Generation X! We are the smallest Generation in the world in existence but yet we had the largest impact on culture from music to tv and movies to the very smartphone you hold in your hand! 

My generational brothers and sisters are lost in this new world. We imagined a world where we could strive forward and make the necessary changes that our parents and grand parents neglected to see or admit. We were told to sit down and shut up and eat our brussel sprouts...lol Kids have no say!! Therefore we are lost (most of us not all), the forgotten ones, left to fend for ourselves to try to grow a career out of a life of disappointment and most of the time utter chaos. We found solitude in each other and our music for it was all we had! 

We were the kids daring enough to do bike stunts in the backyard and play "war" around the neighborhood till the lights came on! We were partying in the woods and having bonfires before it was even cool and we were the first to play video games at home and all you had to do find where all your friends were was look for the most bikes in the front yard! Those were the days! 

Now our generation is left to pick up the pieces of our aging parents, crushing debt, and Gen Z children who want a better life than what most of us can give or offer. We were branded the first and most "color blind" generation. We want nothing but peace and love for all humanity and coexistence was our forte. 

We were groomed by our parents to get the great job and the white picket fence with 2.7 kids and a pension to fall back on but sadly the world that was created by them has been destroyed by them as well and we as always are overlooked for our opinions and knowledge and experience. 

It seems that the current social climate culture is trying to suppress every thing we knew as kids from our music to movies. The major labels used to "care" about you the listener, now all they care about is the mighty dollar and "streamagers" habits...lol. They are the ones who have time to pass around garbage and call it music because once you've heard GREAT, you cant go back or be subjected to tolerating less than talent. Its like trading down for a crappier car than the one you have. Why would you???...lol

So why tolerate the BS they are handing out and why keep listening to 30 year old music you've heard 5000 times!!...lol (yes its great and you LOVE it) but there's always room to LOVE something else too!

Apparently we Gen Xers who created music what it is today doesn't have time to make sure we influence music in the right direction. A "LIKE" does nothing for a band on social media but hitting the "SHARE" button is the ultimate goal. That's what gets the message out to social media feeds around the globe!!

We have to stop and ask ourselves "Are we part of the problem that music has headed the way it has" That's a resounding YES because no one wants to lift a finger to retweet or share their fave indie band or a new act they found to their buddies (Some of you will, but most wont) and that's very unfortunate that the GEN that calls themselves the most critical thinking most problem solving most active GEN in history cant "hit a button". ...lol

We can all do better!! So next time hit the share button for a band you like or my show. They cant do it on their own and neither can we. This is going to take a grassroots movement from all of us. Its how my show and reputation have gotten to where it is today because of good people like you and great fans all over the world in 100 countries!!

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PS...... CHECK OUT my reboot of MTV on my website (SHACKVIDS) will be coming to network television one day....cant wait to get music videos back on TV!!!!

Reverb Campaign #3 is here and we all agree that you cant go wrong with these rappers of this degree! Skills is the game we play and song writing is how we plan to stay! Sticky...sticky..sticky goodness is what we're all about here at the "shack"! Radio used to mean catchy, radio used to mean solid hooks and tracks you can sing along or rap too because you can understand the lyrics and its written in a way that makes sense to your mind that anyone can relate. Its the reason "hit songs" became hit songs. 

Those songs back in the day spoke to a wide range of people from all walks of life from all backgrounds to all races. That's what good mainstream hits do. They bridge the gap and bring people together under one common love and that's the love of music. If your song has the ability to grab multiple generations attention from multiple cultures across the world then you're on to something BIG!

Halshack dives deep into the indie market to pull out and showcase what could be "hits" in their respective rights to their genres or styles. These rappers and creators are out here working their butts off grinding daily through life and work to try to spark some life back into the rap scene we all used to know and love and cherish! 

Gen X owns all popular music types. We expanded what was a bland market of soft rock disco and pop and turned the world on its head with stars like Dre, Snoop Dog, Madonna, Metallica and Guns and Roses etc..... There is no one better at music and its time to recapture that magic before all hope is lost to the major labels and their agenda to "dumb down" the industry! 

Well we're not having it here on the Halshack! In the words of the great TWISTED SISTER "NO! We're not gonna take it anymoroorrreeee"...lol

Be sure to catch MIGS718 "live" at SXSW 2022 in Texas March 19!  Im sure it will be a great showcase! Over 500 artists on display! We have one more from the Halshack! Portland rockers "40 Feet Tall" will also be out live in Texas! 

The show is growing all over the world folks and especially out in Kansas! MIDWEST SALOON is from KANSAS CITY and KC has quickly become one of my top cities in the world out of 400 locations is up on deck with a couple songs to show you their cool classic styles and vibe that only they can create!

400 Metro Markets
100 Countries
110+ episodes

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Time to kick up heels (or boots)..lol and get to steppin'!! Country steppin' that is....lol The HALSHACK knows country cause I grew up in the country sticks and backwoods of North Carolina. Still live here now and let me tell you not much has changed in the past 50 years. NC has seen alot of growth and advancements in the world of tech and medicine but if you take a ride out of town about 10 to 20 minutes from any metro area, you would think you just stepped through a time machine and you know what?? Thats the way we like it here!!...lol

Little bit of old, little bit of new, little bit of something borrowed or blue!! That is the country way and we are here to show you that way in our music and our traditions. Many of these artists in this show hail from the southeast where the heart and values are as big as the region we call home. 

There's something to be loved and said about country, folk and bluegrass. Its roots are buried deep in passion, folk lore and story telling. Its probably the last (least tarnished) major genre in the industry that still holds true to its history and foundation. 

These 11 bands and artists on display are all new and have recently been discovered in the REVERBNATION submission campaign series. It took thousands of artists to find these gems of farm hands and rustic dreamers...lol. 

The Hackens Boys are sure to please with triple tracks for your pleasure as well as (newcomer Sarah Buss) has stories to tell about those that are UNINVITED. Highway 31 will tell you all about their "UNLIKE HEROES" located on the "NORTH TEXAS SIDE" and Melissa Lee Zenker fell in love a little too quick in "TOO FAR GONE" just to not listen to a word he's sayin' in "BLAH BLAH BLAH". 

Too many more potential hits to love! So have fun dustin' off your tires and your heels (or boots)!!...lol

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