Presence

Justice Through Music, a D.C.-based organization encouraging youth to vote, gets a link simply because they have O.A.R. and Sleater-Kinney, two of my favorite bands, listed next to each other on their homepage. Anyone who can get these two bands together for a show deserves, well, a link.

And a word of advice, for all you kids out there: rather than blindly following the political opinions espoused by your favorite musicians (many of whom never went to college and spend considerable portions of their time blitzed out of their minds; to be fair, many of them have and don't), read lots of books, study history and talk to people smarter than you about the world. Not voting is bad, but voting for someone "cuz the lead singer of Suburban Nihilism* said to," is even worse. Democracy means thinking for yourself, no matter how dumb you are.

All that being said, I'd follow Carrie Brownstein into a fiery volcano.

* - Suburban Nihilism is the name of my new band (we play 80's synth-rock, naturally); we are currently looking for a violinist, flutist (electric only), a full woodwinds section and a luthier.