MP3.com, Michael Robertson's watershed indie warehouse, rose, crested, and fell. Then the domain and other assets were bought by CNET. Then darkness and confusion reigned upon all the land, causing gnashing of teeth among musicians and rending of garments among their fans. Now, a glimmer of light. One of the most respected indie-music sites, GarageBand.com (not without its own ups and downs, having risen from the dead once already), has licensed some 85 percent of MP3.com's old music content from its present owners, a consortium of ex-Universal execs called TrueSonic. Confusing? Eh, don't sweat the details. Keep your eye on GarageBand to see what it does with the word's biggest collection of medioc— ...I mean, independantly produced music.
