Getting Out The Vote With Jack Johnson
I literally had the time of my life last summer while representing HeadCount on Jack Johnson‘s Sleep Through the Static Tour. In June, fellow HeadCount volunteer Johanna Nuding and I followed the tour around the Upper Midwest and Southeast in a compact car. We ran HeadCount booths at five of Jack’s shows and joined up…
Where’s The Money? Kenyan Artists Pester Government In Video
Did you know that only 17% of Kenyans have access to clean drinking water? Me neither, until I watched “Mteja,” a collaborative rap video by Kenya artists Wahu, Juliani, Roba (Kalamashaka), Lyn, Wenyeji, Kanjii Mbugua, and ICJ. Where, asks the Swahili-English track, are the millions of dollars budgeted for rural development as part of Kenya’s…
Interview: Lotus Bassist Jesse Miller
Last month, Lotus rolled through San Francisco as part of their Pay-What-You-Want Tour, which let fans pay anywhere from $1 to $20 per ticket. Those who paid $15 or more were hooked up with Lotus’s two new EPs, Oil on Glass and Feather on Wood. I asked bass player Jesse Miller a few questions about…
Phish Festival 8 Goes Green
“Phish aims to set the standard for ‘green’ concert events” In addition to cutting down on water bottles, most of the food booths are using recyclable napkins, plates, forks and bags. The festival organizers also set up an eco-shuttle with bio-diesel powered vans and hybrids ferrying fans to and from Los Angeles and Palm Springs…
Surprise Phish Festival 8 Soundcheck
In addition to a couple of jams, “Undermind,” the forthcoming Party Time track “Liquid Time,” and a Trey Anastasio Band song (“Gone”), Phish performed songs by MGMT (“Kids”) and Yes (“Star Trooper”) during their surprise Thursday soundcheck prior to Festival 8, suggesting that neither the former Oracular Spectacular nor the latter’s The Yes Album during…
Georgia Theatre Rehabilitation Fund Seeks Donations
The Athens Theatre, host to countless shows by HeadCount-affiliated artists, burned down on June 19. Now the theater’s owners have partnered with the Georgia Trust to establish a fund dedicated to restoring the historic theater. Tax-deductible donations to the Georgia Theatre Rehabilitation Fund may be made to the Georgia Trust. Wilmot Green, the theater’s owner,…
O.A.R. Supports Troops With Open Arms And Minds
“War Song” by O.A.R. from IAVA on Vimeo. O.A.R. has long supported our men and women in the military. It’s a bit of a twist for a band wildly popular with the carefree college party crowd both literally and figuratively distant from the armed forces. The contrast in lifestyles and socioeconomic backgrounds, speaking generally, could…
Get Free Phish Food, Win Pollock Art At Festival 8
If you fancy yourself an “a-Phish-ionado,” or an expert on current events, you’ll have a chance to prove it at Festival 8. Just stop by the HeadCount tent and play “Reality Check,” our music and political trivia game show. The Grand Prize winner gets a one-of-a-kind piece of artwork by Phish poster artist Jim Pollock….
Brooklyn Bowl Takes The LEED In Sustainable Entertainment
Three thousand fifty-eight buildings of all shapes, sizes, designs, and purposes have have met the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards for environmentally sustainable construction since 1994. But the country’s first live music venue – and bowling alley! – got the nod earlier this month when Brooklyn Bowl was LEED certified by the…
Farm Sanctuary Scores Two Victories For Farm Animals
HeadCount is all about kick-ass grassroots democracy, so we’re delighted to report two legislative victories pushed through by Farm Sanctuary, the nonprofit founded in 1986 to combat the abuses of factory farming. This month California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill banning dairy-cow tail docking, thereby terminating this painful and unnecessary practice (Learn why tail…