Before the Web made the cover of Popular Mechanics, a few savvy undergraduates from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and volunteers from the burgeoning Santa Cruz geek community, created the Internet Underground Music Archive. Their mission was superbly simple, to create the net's first free high-fidelity music archive.

These visionaries approached this new level playing field for musicians as a technical adventure. During secret gatherings in these youth's bedrooms, IUMA 1.0 was developed, a site that grew to represent more than 500 unsigned, independent bands on-line. IUMA 1.0 enabled music lovers to connect with artists, buy CDs and tapes directly from artists and to share comments about bands with the public. Like kids on a free hot dog picnic, national and international media began eating up the IUMA darlings, writing rave reviews in the press.

Since then, IUMA has expanded its role while continuing to bring more independent musicians on-line. Now offering unique Internet consulting to the music industry, IUMA continues to bring the finest music content direct to you.

In IUMA 2.0 you will find a number of new and improved features, plus plenty of swank graphics. Come along for the guided tour and see for yourself.

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