Last Day To Vote On Poster Art
Today is the last day to vote for the best Phish-related and political poster art of 2009, as HeadCount hosts elections in conjunction with The Mock Show. The Mock Show is an exhibit and market for poster art to be held in Miami on December 30 featuring the work of Jim Pollock, Jeff Wood…
Thom Yorke Live On ‘The Stupid Show’ Today
We’re big fans of Radiohead’s Tom Yorke and his involvement in the climate-change movement. If you receive the HeadCount Sustainability & Conservation e-newsletter, you already know that Yorke kicked off The Age of Stupid‘s September 21 premiere with a New York City acoustic performance that was broadcast live to theaters screening the film. (Yorke performed…
The Xmas Factor
‘Tis the season to hear awful, horrible, terrible Christmas music everywhere. However, one of the cooler things about Warren Haynes’s annual Christmas Jams, which I’ve never attended, unfortunately, is that nearly everyone who plays appears to eschew seasonal music for hard rocking, old-fashioned picking, and novel collaborations, e.g., Coheed & Cambria singing Dylan with Mr….
Phanatic Phish iPhone App Funds Music Education
Mr. Trey Anastasio could have a lot more free time on his hands. From now on, all he’ll need to do to generate a setlist is give the Phanatic iPhone app a quick shake, as I just did, and – voilà – an imaginary setlist like this will be generated: Set 1 Mike’s Song Weekapaug…
John Mellencamp’s Facebook Smoking Ultimatum
Fourteen-year-old Speck Mellencamp talked his father, roots rocker (and Farm Aid co-founder) John Mellencamp into quitting smoking if he got a million people to join this Facebook page. It’s up to 231,091 and still has a long way to go, in spite of Speck’s chat with Scott Simon on NPR this weekend. Speck’s page also…
‘The People Speak!’ On The History Channel
This Sunday at 8 p.m. (EST), the History Channel will air “The People Speak!,” based on A People’s History of the United States and Voices of a People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn. Through dramatic readings by pop-culture icons, this two-hour special brings to life the words of ordinary people who used…
Senator Hatch’s Hanukkah Gift
I nearly always cringe when I see an old politician wearing headphones in a recording studio – or doing anything involving music and a camera. But Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) doesn’t look that uncomfortable in a recording studio singing “Eight Days of Hannukah, a song he wrote for the holidays; but I still cringed a little….
Here’s Looking At You, Kids
There’s nothing quite like a Phish fall tour. Gone are the chances of showers, lack of a full-on light show, and the soulless sheds of summer. The colder weather has come and, with it, a chance for fans to escape the elements altogether for a more intimate foray into musical escapism. Everyone is here: from…
The Boss Backs Gay Marriage In New Jersey
A Senate vote on gay marriage in New Jersey was delayed today. But that didn’t stop Bruce Springsteen from announcing his support of the bill on his website. Like many of you who live in New Jersey, I’ve been following the progress of the marriage-equality legislation currently being considered in Trenton. I’ve long believed in…
Influenced By US Fundamentalists, Uganda Seeks Death Penalty for Gays
Uganda President Yoweri Museveni is expected to sign into law the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, which will expand punishments for gays, including lengthy prison sentences for homosexuals and sympathizers, and impose the death penalty for HIV-positive gays. Homosexuality is already a crime in Uganda, but the Anti-Homosexuality Act creates the new crime of “aggravated homosexuality” and promises…