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...some rock-solid music in our midst, but its coming has been so quiet that it seems to have arrived almost by stealth. Certainly it is not overwhelming the charts, and it is probably not to be heard on the radio anywhere short of the far ends of the FM dial. But it's worth searching out. If there's a college station in your area, they'll play it; any record store that doesn't feature a life-size color cutout of the Nelson twins will probably stock it. A couple of the musicians' names will be familiar...
...behind an assortment of thriving Texas broadcast and real estate properties that in 1985 was valued at more than $100 million. But now the LBJ Co., owned almost entirely by the Johnson family, is being dismantled for far less, a victim of the state's economic bust. KLBJ AM-FM, the highly profitable Austin radio . station once valued at $27 million, is on the block for $13.5 million. Thirty cable-TV systems may bring $50 million...
There is free time in the desert -- sometimes much too much of it. Desert Shield Radio, a network of four FM stations, plays news and music round the clock, a welcome replacement for Baghdad Betty, who used to taunt soldiers that their wives back home were being unfaithful. (One cuckolder was said to be Bart Simpson.) She has not been heard from since the bombing began. By and large, music tastes are fairly sedate. Since the fighting started, says program director Sergeant Major Bob Nelson, "it's like someone put a pillow on it; we got a lot of requests...
...Dallas, KMGC-FM dubbed over the Fine Young Cannibals' "She Drives Me Crazy," with the lyrics...
KLZX AM & FM in Salt Lake City serenaded its listeners with "Iraq, Iraq," based on "New York, New York," and "Hussein," sung to Eric Clapton's "Cocaine...