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….
OK Go Done Gone From EMI, Going It Alone
Creators of brilliant videos and slightly lesser pop music, OK Go has split from stodgy old EMI and formed its own label, Parachute Records. The issue of contention? EMI decided to block the embed feature of the band’s YouTube videos, meaning viewers could not share the band’s videos on third-party websites like this one. For…
Glenn Beck, Music Critic
Glenn Beck spelled out the secret meaning of Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land” on his Fox News show yesterday: “This song is about a progressive utopia where there are no owners of anything. We all just share it. It’s made for you — it’s your land, it’s my land. We all have it…
John Lennon Education Tour Bus
The John Lennon Education Tour Bus is a nonprofit mobile audio and high-def video recording and production facility. The Bus has enlisted some great musicians and producers to inspire students old and young to partake in musical and video projects. The Bus recently rolled through Palm Springs to visit the TED Conference. Jill Sobule, John…
Students For Sensible Drug Policy Convening In SF
Students For Sensible Drug Policy‘s annual conference kicks off Friday in San Francisco with a field trip to a model medical marijuana dispensary in Oakland – and gets even more sensible from there. There’s still time to register and attend the three-day event striking a smart balance of politics and “DARE generation” culture. Keynote speakers…
Phil Lesh Turning 70, Benefiting Haiti
Look out of any window, any morning, any day, and the likelihood of seeing a 70-year-old rock star still going strong are slim to none. Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh is about to change all that. Phil will celebrate his 70th birthday with Furthur & Friends at the Bill Graham Civic Center in San Francisco…
God Street Wine Redux
As though it were decreed sheerly through the energetic advocacy of our friends at Hidden Track alone, God Street Wine has announced they will reunite on July 9 and 10 at Manhattan’s Gramercy Theater for a pair of shows benefiting the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. God Street Wine was an integral part of the Great…