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

What’s going on in the world when the name of a building which honors Jerry Garcia is threatened with being renamed? That’s what Grateful Dead fans have been asking themselves this week after a recent turn of events in San Francisco. Read More

History has been made in America:  We have our first openly gay active professional athlete. Or, should the headline be a little different than that? Read More

It’s the anniversary of the iTunes store, so we’re looking back at years of commercials advertising iPods and featuring songs you can buy in the store. Read More

I became a teacher out of a passion for providing quality learning experiences for students. Over the years, I’ve become loaded with certifications required by the state of New York. Some have been useful, but I have begun to feel that the profession of teaching is being degraded by bureaucracy. Rather than letting teachers teach and students learn in the way that best meets their individual needs, there’s hurdle after hurdle. Read More

Republicans in the Ohio House of Representatives included potentially unconstitutional language in a substitute budget bill designed to make it more difficult for students attending Ohio colleges to vote in their college communities. The language would require any public college or university that issues a letter or utility bill to a student for voter ID purposes to charge that student in-state tuition. Current law allows public colleges to provide to any student a letter with the student’s name and current address that the student can then use as voter ID. Private colleges may issue zero-balance utility bills to students living in residence halls. Read More