Harmonix, developers of the first two guitar hero games, Frequency, Amplitude, Karaoke Revolution, and the Rock Band series, recently announced a new branch of their online music store called Rock Band Network. If you're not too familiar with Harmonix, please watch
for an idea of their respect for the music.
Basically, any band can take the master tracks to songs they own, chart the tracks to plastic drum, bass, guitar, and microphone, and then send off the charts to be released on the in-game store. Sub Pop (early Nirvanna, Postal Service, the Shins) has already promised to add as many tracks from their discography as possible, and multiple groups of semi-professional charters have already popped up to do free charting for bands who don't want to learn the ins and outs of proprietary HMX technology in exchange for a percentage of in-game earnings, with Rhythm Authors LLC being the most prominent and experienced so far.
Anyway, I have a number of non-musician friends who would love to pay for the right to scream the opening of Eponine or jam along with the great fretwork in In Search of 1988 and Last Dance.
EDIT: from looking around these forums, it's hard to tell how broken up Ozma is, but I know that no matter what they're up to, Rock and Roll part 3 was an excellent album, and any chance to get either Ozma songs or whatever these talented people are up to now into a music game with almost no work on the part of the artists seems like an opportunity worth looking into.
http://creators.rockband.com/http://www.rhythmauthors.com/
