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It’s been a long fucking week here at HT HQ — longer than the last note in A Day in the Life — so let’s head into the weekend on

It turns out Prince is not suing his fans: “…[Prince] is simply looking to provide Prince fans with exclusive music and images entirely free of charge, and bypassing unofficial and unauthorised phoney fan sites that exploit both consumers and artists.” Still, it was fun to see an artist fuck over his fans that royally, even if the whole wispy mustachioed episode now seems to be a big understanding.

The festival’s website says “Tough shit, honkey,” mas o menos. Originally called for today, the initial artist announcement for the expanded Big Cypress shindig will be unveiled some time…well, whenever

But some of our friends attended last night’s tribute concert to Bob Dylan, celebrating Todd Haynes upcoming biopic. Apparently Cat Power no-showed the Beacon bill, but My Morning Jacket, Calexico,

It means no worries, brahhh: “Lion King audiences at the Minskoff have been sniffing the sweet scent of marijuana. It turns out the pot-head fans of former Grateful Dead bassist

If someone would have told me a month ago that the biggest album sales controversy in the music industry during the first week of November 2007 would involve Britney Spears

Explain yourselves, you thieving punters, right nobs and tosspots: “Some 62 percent of the people who downloaded ‘In Rainbows’ in a four-week period last month opted not to pay the British alt-rockers a cent. But the remaining 38 percent voluntarily paid an average of $6, according to the study by comScore Inc.”

The Hidden Track staff last night headed to the Anthology Film Archives to attend the New York premiere of Les Claypool’s directorial debut, a mockumentary send-up of the jamband scene

So the Writers Guild of America walked off the job for the first time in nearly two decades, leaving a gaping hole in this nation’s nightly programming. Gone for now

Warren Haynes’ 19th Annual X-Mas Jam hits Ashevegas, NC in about six weeks, and the hardest workin’ dressed-down man in the music business finally dropped the lineup on us. Bring your AARP discount cards: Outside of Grace Potter, it ain’t a young lineup, boasting Jackson Browne, Peter Frampton, Col. Bruce Hampton, Gen. Bruce Hornsby and more…read on for the initial list of performers.