Today In Music News: McConaughey Joins The Biz, Oklahoma Joins The Lips, Snoop Joins The Nation of Islam

Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, March 3, 2009... All right, all right, all right: Matthew McConaughey has gotten into the music business! Too bad he didn't take into account the fact that record labels are losing a lot of money. I always thought the official state song...

By Lance Lester

March 3, 2009

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Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, March 3, 2009...

All right, all right, all right: Matthew McConaughey has gotten into the music business! Too bad he didn't take into account the fact that record labels are losing a lot of money.
I always thought the official state song of Oklahoma was..."Oklahoma." But, "Do You Realize?" by The Flaming Lips was just voted the official state song by the citizens of the great state.
Snoop Dogg is allegedly a member of The Nation of Islam.

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