Ten Immediate Benefits Of Health Care Reform
History was made yesterday. The House reform bill’s not perfect, but it’s a whole lot better than nothing. Here are the highlights. Via Crooks and Liars: 1. Adult children may remain as dependents on their parents’ policy until their 27th birthday 2. Children under age 19 may not be excluded for pre-existing conditions 3. No…
Will Live Streaming Become A Flood?
Trey Anastasio. The Disco Biscuits. Umphrey’s McGee. Phil Lesh. Drive-By Truckers. STS9. The Allman Brothers Band. Heck, you could easily add yourself to this list. I’m talking about artists who’ve recently streamed shows live over the Internet, whether for a fee, free, or through a paid subscription. Is this a trend ready to take off…
Series Of Tubes For Peace
Remember in 2006, when Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) used the “series of tubes” analogy to describe the Internet and YOU were named Time magazine’s person of the year? How prescient they were. Four years later, the Internet’s “series of tubes” has now been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. An organization called Internet for Peace…
Live Blogging the SXSW HeadCount Panel
Scott Goodstein, a self-described “activist,” Daryl Friedman, and Michael Martin 12:20 PM, CST: Here I am, HeadCount’s fearless (false) former “Man on the Lot”/summer intern and current law student, waiting for HeadCount’s panel to begin here at the city Convention Center in surprisingly frigid Austin, Texas. SXSW, or “South By” as the locals call it,…
Saturday HeadCount Panel At SXSW
HeadCount Executive Director Andy Bernstein hosts a panel titled “
Lilith Returns With Official Social Cause i4c
After 11 years, the all-female Lilith Fair tour – now simply known as Lilith – has announced its first eight dates and lineups of the summer. Lilith co-founder Sarah McLachlan is the only performer who will appear at each of the tour’s 36 shows. The other 10 acts on each bill will draw from a…
Alex Chilton 1950-2010
Cult rock icon Alex Chilton died yesterday in New Orleans. Ann Powers does him justice in the Los Angeles Times: “What I found on that journey was Alex Chilton. I’d already come to love Big Star’s catalog, introduced to me via the mix tapes my friends and I made for each other as we built…
Jam Cruise Organizers Aim To Leave Positive Legacy
We here at HeadCount clearly believe music has an inherent ability to motivate and inspire. But why is that? “Music just touches a place deep inside people that makes them feel really good,” said Leaving a Positive Legacy‘s Ann Kenworthy. “And when they’re feeling really good, they want to put that good energy back into…
Pink Floyd Wins ‘Artistic Integrity’ Battle With EMI
Sometimes the whole is greater than the sum of its parts – like listening to Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon from start to finish. So hats off to British Chancellor Sir Andrew Morritt, who agreed with the band this week that individual songs should not be sold online without the band’s permission. In court,…
Interview: Marc Brownstein On Bisco Power
HeadCount co-founder Marc Brownstein, the bubbling bass man with The Disco Biscuits, is on a roll. On March 16, the Biscuits release Planet Anthem, an ambitious left turn of an album full of ambitious pop experiments. The album is already causing a ruckus among fans, who’ve been hearing some of the new material on tour….