Merger Talks Lead to Potential Antitrust Suit
In case you haven't yet heard, the two behemoths of the live music community, Live Nation and Ticketmaster, are discussing a merger. After the epic failure of the Live Nation ticketing service a few days ago, it is not a big surprise that their business executives are searching for options. It is, however, surprising that the…
Neil Young Turning Gas Guzzlers into Tree Huggers
Neil Young is converting a gas guzzling Lincoln into an environmentally-friendly electric car. Making a hobby a statement, ole' Neil has been blogging about it at www.lincvolt.com (where there's also a live video feed). You can also find a complete interview with Young by Richard B. Simon (who wrote the feature on HeadCount in Relix…
Dead Nights in DC
Black-tie Bonnaroo. That’s what the inauguration of Barack Obama became as musicians descended on Washington, DC to play fancy private gigs and pay homage to the new president. In two short days, I managed to catch The Dead, Jay-Z, Kanye West and Kid Rock. And that was just a smidgen of the musicians who came…
HeadCount’s Future
The most frequently asked question I get as the executive director of HeadCount is, “what are you going to do after the election?” My canned response is, “take a nap.” It took us five years to build a national organization and register over 160,000 voters. After Election Day, we almost need to start again from…
20/20 Has Slanted Vision
A privilege that comes with running one of the largest grassroots voter registration campaigns in the U.S. is occasionally being invited to speak for the youth voter movement itself. So when producers from ABC’s 20/20 called and said they were putting together a segment (view or read the segment) that would ask whether attracting new…
20/20, John Stossel to Run Hatchet-Piece on HeadCount Fans
Cross-posted from Future Majority. On Friday at 10pm, 20/20 will run a piece on the youth vote called “Maybe It’s Your Civic Duty Not To Vote,” in which they suggest that uninformed voters – primarily young people – not turn out to the polls. In talking to the youth group,HeadCount, featured in the piece, it…
Huge day for Voters from Congress
“Today was a huge victory for us,” Matt Segal the Executive Director of the Student Association of Student Empowerment (SAVE) said Thursday evening in an interview after testifying before the House Administration Committee on voting rights for young people. This was the culmination of 5 months of SAVE members and volunteers working the Hill in…
Student Voter Rights
With schools back in session there are plenty of students looking to vote in the State where their University is come November 4th. This has always been a sensitive and unfortunately difficult issue for students. Many state and county election boards don't want students voting in their precincts, and some have gone as far to…
Another big HeadCount weekend…
HeadCount just had one of our biggest weekends yet – we registered over 1,000 people at the All Points West Festival, hundreds more at the Virgin Festival, and our touring teams on the Jack Johnson, O.A.R. and Dave Matthews Band tours all had record setting shows! It’s really exciting to see the momentum that we’ve…