Interview: STS9’s David Phipps On The Conspiratorial Nature Of Giving
They may be one of the spacier, more experimental, and more mystically inclined bands on the improv-rock circuit, but Santa Cruz instrumental quintet STS9 also have their feet planted firmly in consensual reality. On their tenth album, Ad Explorata, released earlier this month on the group’s own 1320 label, STS9 blends vintage analog electronics with…
Chase Bank Rejects Marijuana And Pro-Life Charities
I was excited that Chase Bank was going to do something positive with some of their post-“crises” windfall profits. The financial giant organized Chase Community Giving, a Facebook contest to give away $5 million to charities. An application allowed nonprofit organizations to compete for votes in two rounds; the top 100 vote getters win $25,000…
Chewing On Copenhagen
What was achieved, or not, in Copenhagen? The Copenhagen Accord‘s goal is laid out in Article 2: 2. We agree that deep cuts in global emissions are required according to science, and as documented by the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report with a view to reduce global emissions so as to hold the increase in global…
HeadCount Is Hiring
HeadCount will add a full-time, salaried position early next year to work in our New York City office. Candidates must be passionate about both music and grassroots organizing, dedicated, self-motivated, creative and ready for a true adventure. Most importantly, he or she must bring a unique set of skills and demonstrate a clear ability to…
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…