
HeadCount supporters the Dave Matthews Band topped the Associated Press’s list of the decade’s 50 biggest concert tours, selling 11.6 million tickets for $529.1 million (“based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers”). Other ...

I love hearing but I hate earplugs. It’s a predicament I’m sure is shared by most of the live-music community. I’ve tried to wear those fluorescent pieces of foam that constantly fall out, prevent you from talking to friends, and make it seem like you’re listening underwater. I usua...

As Christmas, New Year’s Eve, and a host of other wintery holidays invade our homes with annoying music, pine needles, Grandma’s perfume, and loving yet judgmental relatives you see only a few times a year, one substance in particular helps most of us get through December relatively unscathed: alc...

Animal Collective’s Joshua Dibb, AKA Deacon, hopes fans will kick in funds – and soon! – for his early-January trip to an amazing African festival. Dibb has been invited to Mali’s annual Festival in the Desert, which takes place smack in the middle of the Sahara, in Essakane. It’s a...

There’s a strange phenomenon any true Phish fan is familiar with: When you hear a Phish song outside the usual context, on television or at a stadium or in a store, it stops you in your tracks and sometimes puts a lump in your throat. ...

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...

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...

What was achieved, or not, in Copenhagen? The Copenhagen Accord’s goal is laid out in Article 2: 2. ...

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...

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....

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