Idolator: ornette coleman

Kindly Reminder To Famous Musicians: Pay Your Taxes

jharv — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:30:25 EST

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 ~~musician~~music-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.

"Free jazz" pioneer Ornette Coleman, awarded the Pulitzer Prize for music this year, was put on the hook for $7,814 in July. And rocker John Cale of the influential '60s band The Velvet Underground owes $157,743 according to six warrants filed between 1998 and 2003.

$157,743! Hell, they only got Capone for $215k or so. Watch your back, Cale. (Also, tax folks who might happen to be Idolator fans: If you could avoiding auditing me for the next six months or so, you'd really be a buncha bros. Thanks.)

From The "A" List To The Owe List [NY Post via XXL]

What You Missed In Manchester

Brian Raftery — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 08:50:55 EDT

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..

- First, the band news: Ornette Coleman collapsed from heat stroke during his set on Sunday, but he appears to be OK. [Billboard]
- The Police: Awesome! [NYTimes]
- The Police: Awful! [LATimes Buzz Bands]
- David Cross, Lily Allen and Gov't Mule's Warren Haynes got into a possibly spirited back-and-forth about hippies. [Spinner.com]
- The guy from the Long Winteres stuck it to that Ben Harper dude! [MSNBC]
- By day two, things got smelly. But at least Wayne Coyne pulled out the Page-style double-necker. [EW]
- ?uestlove will gladly pose for a photo, but he damn sure isn't going to give it more than a half-smile. [Loudersoft]

[Photo: Getty Images]

And The Pulitzer Prize For Music Goes To...

Brian Raftery — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:20:02 EDT

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]