The 2013 release is the latest piece of the band’s catalogue to come back online through “The Something Beautiful Project“, nine months after its vocalist was found living on the streets of Los Angeles.
American Head Charge‘s 2013 EP Shoot has arrived on streaming services.
It is the latest step in a project that has spent most of a year putting the band’s catalogue back into circulation while its singer rebuilds his life.
Cameron Heacock resurfaced on November 15, 2025, in an episode of the documentary series Soft White Underbelly titled “The Wayward Rock Musician-Cam.” He had been off the grid for years. In the interview he described being homeless in Los Angeles for what he estimated at five or six years and living with an addiction that had moved from h****n to f******l.
When asked how long he has been living on the streets of Los Angeles, Heacock admitted at the time: “I’ve lost track, it’s been a long time. At least five or six years.”
“It sucks, because I love music, I love making music, I love the whole process, I love touring, I love everything about it…” Heacock shared. “I still have so much music in my heart. I pour everything into the records when I make them. I have at least two, three records in my head that I wanna release. I mean, I only really wanna make these for myself. It’s like my therapy.”
That interview reached Holiday Kirk, founder of The Nu Metal Agenda, who lives in Los Angeles. Kirk launched “The Something Beautiful Project“, named after a lyric from the band’s 2001 song “Just So You Know“, with a stated intention that left no room for hedging.
“American Head Charge are as legendary for their bad luck as they are their music. A debut album dropped right before 9/11, a band dropped from their label not long after, two of their members have died, many more have left,” Kirk wrote at the launch. “Absolutely not. This is not how their story ends. We are going to find Cameron and offer to help him in any way we possibly can. We are going to put a happy ending on a sad story…”
Kirk found Heacock on December 22, 2025, and opened donations the same day.
“We found him. While we work together to put together an organized treatment plan I am offering you the chance to contribute a small dollar donation while I buy Cam anything he needs for survival purposes,” Kirk wrote. “You can help us out by donating at this link, everything raised will be spent exclusively on Cam. I don’t have any way of guaranteeing you that but dammit you have to trust me. This is not something I would ever lie about — every penny that comes to me through that link will go to Cam.”
The money paid for immediate necessities first, then extensive dental work, Heacock having lost a significant number of teeth over the years on the street. By the summer he was no longer homeless. He has since been approved for city housing.
Kirk shared the moment in an emotional post:
“Cameron Heacock is no longer homeless. His application for city housing was approved and he moved into a unit yesterday. I cannot possibly explain to you all how proud I am of my best friend, Cam. There were so many moments during these last eight months when thinks looked impossible, tougher than you could imagine, but he never gave up. And now I get to say it, in fact I’ll say it again, Cameron Heacock of American Head Charge is no longer homeless. This would not have been possible without the support of everyone who has contributed to The Something Beautiful Project, thank you to everyone who took the time to be apart of this. We’re not done, not even close. But everything just got a lot easier to do.”
Restoring the band’s music to streaming services is the other half of the project. Several American Head Charge releases have gone back up over the past months, with Shoot the most recent, and each one generates royalties for a catalogue that had largely fallen out of circulation.
The band formed in Minneapolis in 1996 and made their name with The War Of Art in 2001, produced by Rick Rubin and released as the American music industry was thrown into disarray by the events of that September. They were dropped by their label not long after. Two former members have since died, and the band stopped operating in 2017.
