Slashdot has a post about how the Internet is affecting how music and people meet.

Richard Menta from MP3 Newswire recently posted an article that describes how the Net has shifted his tastes
from main stream radio artists to indie acts he discovered online.
Slashdot has run a number of articles dealing with the struggles of
independent artists and how the net is helping them. Between the recent
payola scandal and the incursion of Big Radio
into podcasting the major labels are pushing hard to monopolize what
they can. The good news is that Big Music is much slower adjusting to
the changes brought about by technology than Little Music and the sky
is looking rosier for the independent artist. In a July article, CNET also discussed how things are looking much better for the independents.

(via Slashdot)