HeadCount Gets A White House Invite
Last week, while on the way to see Phish in Philadelphia, I got an unexpected email from…the White House. We would like to invite you to join us for a Clean Energy Economy Forum to discuss the important role young leaders have in creating and sharing this opportunity. The event will bring together emerging leaders…
Running The Youth Vote Up The Poll
There’s good news, bad news, and interesting news about young voters. According to Project Vote, 64% of the US population voted in the 2008 general election, an increase of 4% over 2000. While older white people continue to vote earliest and most often, nonwhites comprised 91% of the increase in voters. And while the number…
Interview: Wayne Kramer Opens Jail Guitar Doors
Lead guitarist Wayne Kramer and the MC5, the world’s first political punk band, ruled the Midwest rock scene during the late sixties until they flamed out in 1972. In 1975, Kramer was arrested for selling illegal powders to a government agent, and spent more than two years in the Lexington Federal Prison in Lexington, Kentucky….
HeadCount Podcast
Our partners at Sonicbids helped put us in contact with up-and-coming bands that share our belief that music can be a powerful tool for encouraging people to be more active, involved citizens. We chose these tracks from among more than 50 submissions. Have a listen by clicking here 1. Tripsonix – “Great Pub in the…
Phish Does Not Forget The Motor City
Less than a month after the “Joy” that was Festival 8, Phish returned to the stage for their fall tour opener in Detroit, Michigan. Cobo Arena is located on the Detroit River adjacent to General Motors headquarters, Joe Louis’s monumental fist, and the big bronze “Spirit of Detroit.” The city was alive with energy as…
Italian Prime Minister’s Rockin’ Lifestyle Celebrated On ‘Rolling Stone’ Cover
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is a figure probably more suitable for a magazine such as The Economist, which featured him in a 2001 cover story titled “Why Silvio Berlusconi is unfit to lead Italy,” than on the cover of Rolling Stone. But next month the magazine’s Italian edition will celebrate him “in reward for…
Phish-Loving Flickr Co-Founder Designing Online Game
Stewart Butterworth, who accidentally helped invent Flickr in 2003 when his company’s socially interactive online pursuit Game Neverending didn’t work out, started his career in computing like many a lad, according to this Globe and Mail piece: At the University of Victoria, where he did his undergrad in philosophy with a focus on neuropsychology, cognitive…
The Music Wood Campaign
After reading Debra’s great post on the federal investigation of Gibson Guitars’ Nashville factory for violating the Lacy Act, I remembered watching an episode of “Big Ideas for a Small Planet” on the Sundance Channel that focused on the art of sustainable guitar making. While guitars aren’t the biggest threat to our forests, without sustainable…
HeadCount Parties Hollywood Style
Television personalities Stephanie Pratt (left), Ben Gleib and Aisha Tyler were among the faces at HeadCount’s first ever fundraiser in Los Angeles, the “Rock. Laugh. Dance” party at the House of Blues on Sunset Strip. It was quite the L.A. welcome. Also on hand were Wayne Kramer of the MC5, “American Pie” star Jason Biggs,…
The Pseudoscience of Rock
Last week the number crunchers at Overthinking It produced this chart correlating the production of oil with creativity in rock. According to “The Hubbert Peak Theory of Rock, or, Why We’re All Out of Good Songs,” rock creativity topped out relatively soon after U.S. oil production (at least in the lower 48 states) – at…