Today In Music News: Indie Hits The Web, Buffet Kills, and DMX Finds God

Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, January 16, 2009... In an unprecedented move, LA's Indie 103.1 has decided to broadcast online instead continuing as a terrestrial station and playing crap they don't want to play. Makes you yearn for the days, when we in Dallas actually had a "cutting...

By Lance Lester

January 16, 2009

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Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, January 16, 2009...

In an unprecedented move, LA's Indie 103.1 has decided to broadcast online instead continuing as a terrestrial station and playing crap they don't want to play. Makes you yearn for the days, when we in Dallas actually had a "cutting edge" station that played real alternative music and not the same song every hour on the hour...
Apparently liking Jimmy Buffett can get you killed.
DMX has discovered jailhouse religion. It seems Earl Simmons has decided he wants to be a pastor. Oh, and have his own reality show...

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