Celebrating its 30th Anniversary, Metallica will celebrate with a string of December shows in San Francisco, Calif. for members of their Met Club fan club. "Thirty years of Metallica… can
Back in June, prog-jammers Umphrey’s McGee told fans to save the dates of October 28 and 29 for a Halloween celebration down in Atlanta at a yet-to-be-announced venue. Well now,
On September 27, HT faves Wilco will release their eighth studio album The Whole Love via their brand new label dBpm Records. While we still have a couple more months
This week for Postcards From Page Side, I decided to focus on an issue close to all of us, whether we realize it or not: voter registration and the impact on not only our scene, but our world in general. HeadCount is a non-profit organization focused on registering voters at live concerts, amongst other things. Co-founder Andy Bernstein was gracious enough to take some time to chat with me about HeadCount’s first eight years as a non-profit and what lies ahead for the organization with the impending election year in 2012. “It’s been a very interesting few years for us. In a lot of ways, I’m more excited and honestly more proud of the work we are doing this year than any of the years that came before it,” says Bernstein. “We really wanted to take it to the next level in 2011 and 2012 and take action, by taking the momentum of the election and turning our community into a force.”
My conversation with Bernstein quickly turns to not only the past and present of HeadCount, but also most importantly, its future, namely the election year of 2012. And trust me, HeadCount has big plans. More than just sending teams on the road to register voters, they are all about having “fun” at the shows while educating the masses. “Going into this year we took a kind of different approach. Our goal this year was to really have fun with the community on a socially conscious level. That was everything that we feel the previous years had been calling for. We wanted to just strengthen our tie to the community on a pro-social level and that would take us back into the presidential year with a whole new position and ability to reach people and get the vote out.”
Bernstein continues to elaborate on certain, specific ways that HeadCount is continuing to reinvent themselves. “We have done three major things this year. The first is a survey called the Fan DNA Project that we are doing at shows asking about their musical tastes and political beliefs. We are going to compare different fan bases and different festivals [to find out] what do we all have in common? Where are we different? What do we believe in? It will help the bands understand their fanbase better and HeadCount understand the people we are trying to reach better.”
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You couldn’t make it too far down the FM dial without running into one of Stone Temple Pilots’ hard-edged hits during the ’90s. The California-bred alt-rockers are touring this summer
Soundgarden performing at Red Rocks on July 18th, 2011.
The Allman Brothers Band have a long illustrious history of performances at the Beacon Theatre that includes literally hundreds of sit-ins. That tradition continued tonight when the pioneering southern rockers
Los Angeles’ The Airborne Toxic Event announce dates for their world tour today. The tour finds the band playing shows in both the U.S. and Europe for the remainder of
You can forget about Bob Weir’s solo acoustic run scheduled for early August. Announcing the postponements on his website, Weir didn’t offer any concrete reasons for the change of plans
Austin via Baton Rouge Americana indie rockers Wheeler Brothers released their debut album Portraits on June 21 on Bismeaux RecordsEstablishing a loyal, local fanbase, Wheeler Brothers began 2011 with a sold out performance at Austin's esteemed venue The Parish. Glide recently chatted with the band via email for a get to know the Wheeler Brothers session,
