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helpful hints

Kindly Reminder To Famous Musicians: Pay Your Taxes

And I say that as someone who flubs filing on time almost every year. But it seems folks like Jay-Z's former partner Damon Dash—"whose estimated $50 million fortune bought him a chauffeur-driven $400,000 Maybach sedan, diamond-encrusted watches and more than 1,000 pairs of sneakers"—still think neglecting to write that $2 million tax check will be totally cool with the really nice dudes at the IRS. And Dame isn't the only musicianmusic-related duder to make this New York Post article on "the state's list of tax deadbeats," including artists more likely to get written up in The Wire than XXL. More »

3:30 PM on Mon Nov 19 2007
By jharv
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Latest by FunkyJ: And yet no doubt these same people support the RIAA and the record companies when they go after file sharers who've shared their records and robbed them out of $1.24... Oh America, when will you learn that irony is more than more »

bonnaroo awakening

What You Missed In Manchester

Ed. note: Over the weekend, thousands of music fans headed to Manchester, Tenn., for the annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival; while there, many of these attendees chose to spend their between-set downtime by either a) placing peyote under their eyelids or b) writing about how it was all, like, hot and stuff. Some highlights below—and if you really want to know what it was like, feel free to Photoshop yourself into the Jack White reaction-shot picture above.. More »

8:50 AM on Mon Jun 18 2007
By Brian Raftery
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Latest by Ned Raggett: A slew of behind the scenes comments from a friend who was performing there. Just keep scrolling. more »

And The Pulitzer Prize For Music Goes To... Ornette Coleman, for Sound Grammar, which finished at No. 45 in our Jackin' Pop poll. What, you were expecting Hell Hath No Fury? Pulitzer Prize Winners [Pulitzer.org]

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