Brian Nowehre is a former professional musician and owner of Chicago's Nowhere Guitars Etc.[1426] and who upon closing the store in 2003 converted the store's website into a political blog called nowhereweb.com [1427]

nowhereweb.com takes a more cynical and skeptical approach than most other political blogs and has set itself apart from other political blogs such as dailykos.com [1428], boomantribune.com [1429] and redstate.org [1430] by refusing to take part in the blog advertising network; blogads [1431] that these sites utilize to generate revenue. Brian Nowhere has publicly stated that this network, in which membership requires sponsorship from other blogs in the network, creates a hegemony, wherein the blogs generating the most ad revenue can weild undue influence on the the reporting decisions of smaller blogs in the network.

Brian Nowhere has taken a public and principled stance against what he considers to be the unethical policies and practices of other political blogs who are quickly gaining mainstream acceptance on the political playing field.

In 2004, Brian Nowhere contributed a controversial track to a compilation CD by the Bots entitled Bush Raps Bush_Raps the track is titled GBMD [1432] which attempts to make a play on the acronyms "Global Ballistic Missile Defense" and "George Bush Must Die".