The Internet Underground Music Archive (IUMA) has released Artist Uplink, IUMA's free self-publishing Web site creation tool for emerging and unsigned bands. Artists can now log onto IUMA or Yahoo!Digital to access Artist Uplink to create free, fully-customizable, multi-page web sites with their own unique web addresses.

As part of the rollout, Yahoo! users will have free access to Artist Uplink through Yahoo! Digital, Yahoo!'s new multimedia digital site launched recently. Artists can use Artist Uplink to upload and edit unlimited bios, band member photos, tour dates, images, artwork, songs and lyrics. Once their content is uploaded, artists can customize their sites, choosing the look and feel, button types, background colors and text colors from hundreds of choices, resulting in a completely unique web site. All audio is available in streaming RealAudio and MP3 format. Once their sites are up, artists can activate message boards, email fan clubs and can sell music directly to fans.