Ordenar arreglo multidimensional

$songs =  array(
        '1' => array('artist'=>'Smashing Pumpkins', 'songname'=>'Soma'),
        '2' => array('artist'=>'The Decemberists', 'songname'=>'The Island'),
        '3' => array('artist'=>'Fleetwood Mac', 'songname' =>'Second-hand News')
);

call array sorting function

$songs = subval_sort($songs,'artist'); 
print_r($songs);

array sorting funcation

function subval_sort($a,$subkey) {
    foreach($a as $k=>$v) {
        $b[$k] = strtolower($v[$subkey]);
    }
    asort($b);
    foreach($b as $key=>$val) {
        $c[] = $a[$key];
    }
    return $c;
}