- Merle Haggard was on the Bill Maher show and said that he was disappointed that after he wrote "Let's Put a Woman in the White House" that Hillary went to Nashville to get other songwriters to write songs about her. Merle also joked about Hillary going on Willie Nelson's bus.
- Stevie Wonder campaigned for Obama in California
- The remaining members of the Grateful Dead were reuniting to campaign for Obama.
- A video put together by will.i.am of the BlackEyed Peas, and featuring Herbie Hancock, Common, John Legend, and Nicole from the Pussycat Dolls was a huge hit. The video which combined Obama's speech with music and sung vocals got 1.9 million views.
- Kim Gordon from Sonic Youth supports Obama
- The Beatles support Obama. Well, if Elvis supported Duncan Hunter...
- Speaking of the Beatles
- Arlo Guthrie is supporting Ron Paul
- John Mellencamp tells John McCain to quit using his songs. You'd think that making campaign appearences with John Edwards would have given some clue where Mellencamp's allegiances lie.
and lastly, the biggest music-related story of the last two weeks..
- In case, you didn't see it on every major news outlet, Obama Girl didn't vote for Obama. In fact, she didn't even vote at all.
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