What do you do when government sequestration gets you down? For me, the answer was simple. Head to Bonnaroo! Due to government cuts at my day job, my entire agency required all of its employees to take a week of unpaid leave this year. Rather than lay around on my couch and sulk about my reduced paycheck, I decided … Read More

Democratic participation is being revolutionized by an empowering wave of new technologies. In the first of a series of posts exploring these innovations, we’re taking a closer look at TurboVote, an organization that’s working to bring to voting the best of the digital age. Read More

The Supreme Court struck down an Arizona law that requires proof of citizenship when registering to vote. The landmark Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona case has implications for the work of organizations like HeadCount that register voters across the U.S. Read More

Traveling from city to city can get monotonous. But not for Dispatch – a.k.a. Brad Corrigan, Chad Stokes, and Pete Francis Heimbold. The boys recently sat down with HeadCount’s Nashville Team Leader Celia Gregory at the legendary Ryman Auditorium for a wide-ranging interview that touched on playing festivals vs. more intimate venues and and the importance of organizing service projects in the cities and countries they visit. For them, it’s all about connecting to their fans and connecting those fans to their own communities in meaningful ways. Read More

In 2011, Florida Governor Rick Scott stirred controversy – and raised the the ire of voter advocacy groups – with legislation that made sweeping changes to the state’s voting policies. Those changes, which decreased early voting periods, complicated the work of third-party voter registration groups, and increased the number of voters who were required to cast provisional ballots (among other changes), were so unpopular that, last week, Scott signed HB 7013, a bill that rolls some of them back. Read More

This Saturday May 25, musician and friend of HeadCount Amanda Palmer will be performing a special benefit show to raise money for Coney Island’s Mermaid Parade. The parade, considered the Mardi Gras of Brooklyn, is all about community, fun, the sea — and off-the-charts, funky D.I.Y. costumes. The future of the quirky spectacle was up in the air after the near-destruction of parade headquarters by 2012′s Hurricane Sandy. Read More

Established in 1976, The Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival (or MichFest) is the largest and longest-running women-only music festival in the world. The event, which draws around 4,000 attendees, is staffed and attended exclusively by women — many of whom go nude or topless. But, as the definition of womanhood has expanded to include transgender and transsexual individuals, will MichFest remain for (naturally) female concertgoers only, or will it be forced to adapt? Read More

HeadCount has got the best way for you to see music this summer! Check out our upcoming events and auctions! Read More

Takoma Park, Maryland has taken a bold step by expanding voting to a younger group than anywhere else in the United States, allowing voting in civic elections from the age of 16. Read More

Global poverty is a problem with a lot of moving parts, so there’s a lot anyone can do to fight it. What if you could take action, track it online, and get rewarded with amazing music? Now, with GlobalCitizen.org, you can earn points for working to end poverty, and maybe get to see the concerts of your dreams. Read More