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Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel are about to rock for Barack. It was announced today that the two music superstars will co-headline "Change Rocks," a concert for the campaign of democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama on Thursday October 16 at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City. Obama himself will also take part in the event, as will other "special guests" still to be disclosed ... read more |
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As the Democratic Presidential ticket of Barack Obama and Joseph Biden prepare to be coronated as their party’s standard bearers in the November election, music is already playing a big part at the festivities in Denver. The musicians lining up to help the Democrats include Sheryl Crow, Dave Matthews, and John Legend ... read more |
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American Idol may be off the tube for this year, but that dosesn’t stop the weekly karaoke fest and ratings juggernaut from continuing to make news. As this year’s two David’s (Cook and Archuleta) release their records, and the rest of the Idol gang pack concert arenas, comes news that a former Idol will sing for Obama, and a new judge will grace the show ... read more |
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Finally, she offered me entrance, if I’d sign in, state my intended purpose, and agree to be chaperoned, all of which were unreasonable requests considering I had no real agenda and both the paper trail and escort could expose my plans of drunken carousing ... read more |
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Obama supporter and lyrical lothario Ludacris is being put under the sniper’s scope, yet again for having a hard time controlling his language and his, um, offensive manner of voicing his opinion. In this recent attack on the hip-hop artists’ potty mouth, The Obama campaign has publicly expressed its disappointment with Ludacris’s choice of lyrics ... read more |
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Truly a rock star in his own right, Barack Obama does big like no one else, having the who’s who of music and Hollywood at his side at this year’s Democratic national convention ... read more |
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The artistic community’s circle jerk around Barack Obama is trucking on full steam ahead. Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy has just announced a Chicago concert/ fundraiser. If you’re keeping score at home, that’s the second benefit he’s played for our generation’s Bobby Kennedy ... read more |
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Is Obama the politician we always hoped Dylan would be but knew could never happen? Better yet, could Dylan be Obama’s destined running mate? Consider this: Dylan sang “The Times They Are A-Changing;” Obama leads the movement for change. Dylan gives Obama the old, white vote that McCain has on lock ... read more |
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Dave Matthews popped into my adopted hometown of Bloomington, Indiana last night, causing a frenzied uproar not seen since Bobby Knight was unceremoniously shitcanned. The free concert, taking place one day before voter registration ended, was more of a Barack Obama campaign rally than anything else, but music was played and all in attendance seemed happy with his performance ... read more |
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Junior Illinois Senator Barack Obama scored another victory of the Clinton family on Sunday night, though, this conquest was apolitical in nature. Barack’s book The Audacity Of Hope: Thoughts On Reclaiming The American Dream edged out former President Clinton’s non-fiction title Giving: How Each Of Us Can Change The World in the Best Spoken Word category ... read more |
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It’s Super Tuesday, folks. Voters from twenty-four states are heading to the polls today, and over forty percent of both Republican and Democrat primary delegates are at stake. Most politicians have long secured their endorsements and finalized their platforms, but Senator and all-around badass Barack Obama shored up one more electorate base yesterday: the aging stoners ... read more |
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Politics has influenced music since Yankee Doodle first put a feather in his hat, but I see it fairing much better without it. Music is often an escape mechanism away from the human slaughtering and international thievery that graces us at every other medium we turn to, so why not just leave it be. Politics belongs in a cage while music should roam free ... read more |
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