California pop quartet Voxhaul Broadcast is the latest act joining the Voice Project, a charitable movement to help the women of Northern Uganda. Here, the band covers Smashing Pumpkins’ “With Every Light.”

As MusiCares prepares for its annual person of the year tribute, honoring Barbra Streisand, MusiCares/Grammy foundation senior vp Kristen Madsen provides a glimpse into this amazing organization and how it serves the industry we love and its members.

For their 100th show, LA rockers Vanaprasta performed a benefit concert for Haiti on Jan. 15 with fellow buzz acts John Carpenter, John Isaac Watters and Mariah McManus. Guitarist Cameron Dmytryk recaps the special night, a welcome entrance to 2011.

Tony Bennett, LeAnn Rimes, Seal, BeBe Winans are among those to on tap to pay tribute to Barbra Streisand, who is being honored as the Grammy Foundation’s MusiCares Person of the Year. The event will take place two days before the 53rd annual Grammy awards on Feb. 11 in Los Angeles. Streisand will close the night with a performance.

Michelle Edgar, founder and executive director of Music Unites, shares the organization’s successes of 2010 and big goals for 2011 including a nationwide instrument drive. Pictured here, she’s hanging with D.A. Wallach from Chester French, who performed at a Music Unites event.

Singer/songwriter Ry Cuming, who recently released his self-titled debut album on Bellasonic/Jive Records and made the transition from Australian pro-surfer to LA-based musician takes us on an important potato chip journey in his “Green” column for The Comet. Plus three things you can do for a sustainable future.

Much like The Comet blogger Ry Cuming, Jackson Browne, a longtime eco-conscious activist, looks for ways to go ‘green’ while on tour. The musician spoke out during last night’s New York concert about the concentration of plastic in the Pacific Ocean and encouraged the use of reusable metal water bottles.

On tour with Justin Nozuka, singer/songwriter Ry Cuming muses on the overload of plastic water bottles, plastic knives and paper napkins wasted everyday. Cuming decides to make a change, starting on his tour bus, and offers some simple suggestions to help end the constant cycle of use and discard.

Ry Cuming, who recently released his self-titled debut album on Bellasonic/Jive Records, made the transition from Australian pro-surfer to LA-based musician and imagines the City of Angels as a “sustainable city” run on solar power. The Comet caught his show at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles Sept 9!

Greenpeace says Facebook is polluting the environment with coal thanks to its new large data center in Prineville, Oregon. Facebook says the facility is being built with “energy efficiency” in mind, even though it gets 58% of its power from coal instead of the national average of 50%. Greenpeace launched a campaign on Facebook called “Unfriend coal.” The Comet says, “Go green!”

Ben Sollee has gotten rid of his touring van, literally. The alternative/folk musician has launched a “Ditch the Van Bike Tour” presented by Kentucky Coffeetree Cafe. He’s carrying his own gear on a bicycle and performing “sustainable, community oriented events.” Check out the video:

Ditch the Van Bike Tour - Chapter 1 from marty benson on Vimeo.

3 Doors Down will head to their home state of Mississippi for the seventh annual Better Life Foundation event, benefiting various children’s charities. Theory of a Deadman and Saving Abel are also scheduled to perform during the foundation’s concert taking place Nov. 13.

This has nothing to do with music, but we at The Comet thought it was supper cool, and wanted to share. Our favorite is the Green Genie because it suggests a variety of things you can do everyday to be more Green. Thank god there’s an app for that.

The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) is asking citizens to write their Senators, urging legislation to reform current energy policies and end the country’s dependence on fossil fuels. Since April 20, 2010, an estimated 2.5 million gallons of oil have been leaking into the Gulf each day. Check out this moving video of images from the Gulf Coast oil disaster set against the Glee cast’s “Over the Rainbow.”

John Legend will receive the Humanitarian Award for his Show Me Campaign at the BET Awards on June 27. The non-profit organization was created in 2007 to fight poverty through eduction reform and has mobilized efforts in Africa and the U.S. Show Me also works with Millennium Promise to provide clean water, health care and help build schools.

Drake has teamed with non-profit organizations Green the Block and the Hip-Hop Caucus to promote a cleaner green environment. Between a video game and a new album, where does he find the time?