Malcolm McLaren 1946-2010
While nobody appeared to hate classic rock as much as Malcolm McLaren, who died of cancer today, you have to credit him with practically reinventing the stuff in 1975 when he created the Sex Pistols. Perhaps the world’s greatest comedy group, the Pistols were a satanic Monkees. They parodied rock as it was with a…
HeadCount Personal Liberty Issue Update: Lawyers, Guns and Money
What happens when you take a landmark Supreme Court case concerning Chicago’s ban on handgun ownership, then throw the 2nd Amendment and its meaning into the mix? This Personal Liberties Issue blast will cover that as well as new gay marriage laws, drug war violence and marijuana taxation and legalization. But first, we’d like to…
Grateful Dead Archivist Chosen
The University of California, Santa Cruz, has announced the winner of the world’s most-reposted help-wanted ad (at least until that Denver pot-tasting gig opened up). Nicholas Meriwether, an oral historian for the South Caroliniana Library, will be the Grateful Dead Archive‘s first archivist. Meriwether has edited several books about the band – including All Graceful…
Community Question: Issues of Personal Liberty
HeadCount polls the live music community on a regular basis to find out how you feel about some important issues. This month, our Community Question focuses on “Personal Liberty.” [poll id=”4″]
Americans Trash Environment In Poll
An early-March Gallup poll asked Americans which was more important: developing energy supplies even at a further detriment to the environment or protecting the environment even at the cost of limiting energy supplies? Fifty percent of those polled favored securing energy supplies from gas, oil, and coal, the highest percentage Gallup has seen in 10…
Umphrey’s Bowl To Be Simulcast
Speaking of simulcasting concerts, Umphrey’s McGee has just announced that the UM Bowl 2010 will be broadcast live on iClips.net. The show will be performed in four “quarters.” The evening will be broken up into four quarters of music, each with a different interactive theme. The First Quarter will kick off with an acoustic set…
Sarah Palin Faux Interviews LL Cool J And Toby Keith
You may have heard that Sarah Palin launched a new special program on the FOX News Channel (FNC) called “Real American Stories”. The documentary-style show is not meant to be political in nature, but the first few video promos became a bit controversial. In advance of the April 1 series premier, FNC aired promos saying…
Interview: Bob Weir Part 3 – How Barack Obama Reunited The Dead
“We weren’t kicking around the notion of playing together until the opportunity to make a difference and get people registered and voting. When that opportunity came our way, we all said, ‘Hell, we gotta do this, guys.’” Bob Weir – of the Grateful Dead, RatDog, and, most recently, Furthur – sits on HeadCount’s board of…
Loophole Lets Insurance Companies Stick It To Kids With Pre-Existing Conditions
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HeadCount Sustainability and Climate Change Update: Signs of Life for Climate Legislation
Some of you have been getting HeadCount’s Sustainability and Climate Change e-newsletter for a while. But for many of you who joined our mailing list when downloading the “Best of Bonnaroo” compilation, this will be the first time. So let me briefly introduce myself: I’m Nicole and every six weeks I’ll hit you with a brief…