A random sampling of artists, organizations and programs you hurt if you eliminate the NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS: The NASHVILLE SYMPHONY. The SOUTH DAKOTA SYMPHONY. The MONTEREY JAZZ FESTIVAL. The SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVAL. The KANSAS CITY JAZZ FESTIVAL. The JUNEAU JAZZ & CLASSICS FESTIVAL. The INTERNATIONAL CHORAL FESTIVAL in MISSOULA, MT. The ORCHESTRA OF ST. LUKE'S initiative to bring chamber music to NEW YORK subways. Master classes and coaching for classical music students in ANNANDALE, VA. Music education in BETHLEHEM, PA. Free jazz concerts in CHICAGO. SO PERCUSSION. ALARM WILL SOUND. The VAN CLIBURN INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION. Opera companies in PHOENIX, BOSTON, DENVER, SARATOGA SPRINGS, ST. LOUIS and elsewhere. Dance companies. Theater companies. Writers. Visual artists. The NEA represents 0.003 percent of federal spending. To put that in context, if you have a low six-figure income and you pay, say, $30,000 in federal taxes, the existence of the NEA is costing you 90 cents per year. And for those 90 cents, you are helping make life tangibly richer in Nashville, Savannah, Kansas City, Juneau, Missoula, New York, Annandale, Bethlehem, Chicago, Phoenix, etc etc etc. Because art makes life tangibly richer. But you already knew that, or you wouldn't be reading this... Actual lyrics sung out loud at the LINCOLN MEMORIAL in honor of, and in front of, the man who today will succeed the first African-American president of the UNITED STATES: "Take all the rope in Texas / Find a tall oak tree, round up all of them bad boys / Hang them high in the street for all the people to see." Or, as BILLBOARD calls it, one of TOBY KEITH's "most patriotic hits"... It's FRIDAY and that means new music from CHERRY GLAZERR, FOXYGEN, PRODIGY, JOHN MAYER, AUSTRA, SHINTARO SAKAMOTO, PROBLEM, WILLIAM BASINSKI, KID KOALA & EMILIANA TORRINI, JOAN OF ARC, AFI and BASH & POP... RIP HOWARD KAUFMAN and ROBERTA PETERS.