Yahoo! blew it years ago!

Before there was a MySpace, there was a list of bands on Yahoo!
On occasion (6+ years ago) I would scan this odd list of band names, sometimes by genre, but if they had a good one, something catchy, I'd go ahead and take a look. So what if they played oboes in Minnesota, they have a cool name!
So why didn't Yahoo! make this functional look-up feature an actual place where bands could go to be seen and HEARD? Being on the wrong side of the fence, fearing bandwidth issues with audio downloads, just playing it safe... then when they do act they make Yahoo!Music... yuck! Now AOL is trying to play catch-up with video... give up.