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Lupe Fiasco Booted From Stage After Anti-Obama Comments
posted: January 21, 2013
Lupe Fiasco has strongly voiced his political opinions regarding President Barack Obama in the past, but this past Sunday, during a concert set up by StartUp RockOn celebrating the President’s inauguration, he may have gone…
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Bob Dylan Updates His Facebook Status For The First Time Ever!
posted: November 7, 2012
Ladies and gentleman, we’d like to welcome oldtimer Bob Dylan to the internet. The master of folk has finally figured out how to work that confounded computing machine and has even managed to personally update his…
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Kelly Clarkson’s Ron Paul Twitter Endorsement — Should Pop Stars and Politics Mix?
posted: January 20, 2012
Affairs of the heart and affairs of state. The two have been intertwined in music”sometimes harmoniously , sometimes cacophonously”since around the time Bob Dylan declared that the answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind.…
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The Sound & The Fury: Petty and Bachmann Face Off
posted: July 11, 2011
Of all of the crucial components in a presidential election strategy, the campaign song is key. It sets a positive tone for rallies, distills the campaign’s core message and immediately allies the candidate with a…
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Soundcheck: Rap On Politics: A Slippery Slope
posted: June 14, 2011
Last week, fans got a double dose of doozies from Lupe Fiasco who enjoyed soaring record sales after his MTV Movie Awards appearance then followed up the success with some pretty serious statements. He told…
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Pop Goes Political
posted: October 11, 2010
Following her record-breaking rack up of eight MTV VMA’s for her single “Bad Romance” and collaboration with Beyoncé on “Telephone,” Lady Gaga gave fans a taste of what’s to come when she belted out lyrics…
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