Mercy! Dave Matthews Releases Video for Voter Registration campaign

Dave Matthews Band has just released a version of the video to their new single “Mercy” to promote voter registration. Mercy, with it’s lyrics searching for global reprieve and redemption, is the first single from the band’s new album, ‘Away From The World,’ out this September 11. The video for Mercy was crowd sourced from over 14,000 fans and friends, another in a long list of efforts by the group to create awareness and citizen engagement. The album has been topping the Triple A charts, and is the 6th album by DMB to debut at #1 on the Billboard 200. A great article by Air Traffic Control’s Erin Potts in The Huffington Post today talks about musicians lending their voices and work to the effot to geth out the vote. Artists like DMB are proving effective at reaching and registering voters for groups like Headcount, Rock The Vote and other organizations that target youth to utilize their most powerful democratic right.