There is one specific way to help bring this about by solving 2 semi-specific problems that I know of.
1) I and a bunch of people I know love to post personal videos with music overlaid on top. Anyways I'm not sure when this started, but Facebook now checks the songs that accompany video uploads. (As an interesting aside, these vids weren't public; they were only shared with friends or friends of friends.) When it feels that it finds a match, it either disallows the video upload or it just kills all the sound. If there was a service sold mini-licenses for (indy) songs to normal people for use on Facebook, that would be great.
To get to the point: This would be a great way for people to hear new music, especially if the video had the name of the artist and song.
2) I'm not sure if this exists, but I remember hearing that you need a record label to get your music published iTunes. It would be nice to have a easy and cheap intermediary that acts as a record label to iTunes and feels like an App Store for developers to the actual bands and artists.
1) I and a bunch of people I know love to post personal videos with music overlaid on top. Anyways I'm not sure when this started, but Facebook now checks the songs that accompany video uploads. (As an interesting aside, these vids weren't public; they were only shared with friends or friends of friends.) When it feels that it finds a match, it either disallows the video upload or it just kills all the sound. If there was a service sold mini-licenses for (indy) songs to normal people for use on Facebook, that would be great.
To get to the point: This would be a great way for people to hear new music, especially if the video had the name of the artist and song.
2) I'm not sure if this exists, but I remember hearing that you need a record label to get your music published iTunes. It would be nice to have a easy and cheap intermediary that acts as a record label to iTunes and feels like an App Store for developers to the actual bands and artists.