FREE MUSIC WEBSITES ROCK IIMA Rocks A Little Harder Than Most

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(Free-Press-Release.com) September 10, 2006 -- Hobbs,NM September 10,2006

The newest Open Music Distributor, or OMD, is also poised to be the best. IIMA, the Independent Internet Musician's Association, is set to take the web music world by storm, with high tech features and support for artists that's truly unheard of in most circles.

IIMA provides all the "standard" features of an OMD, like MP3 hosting, community forums, free downloads for listeners based on the artist's preference, and free artist accounts to allow even bands on a budget to participate in the exploding web music scene. But they are taking the concept of community a few major steps further with some unique additions that seem to have flown right past the rest of the OMD pack.

According to Don Newton, Association President and the chief founder of IIMA, most OMD's seem happy to "take the money and run", leaving their artist members only half-satisfied with the experience. While the main features will generally keep pace with each other across the landscape of indie music hosting sites, the support and reinforcement of the main reason that OMD's exist is seriously lacking in some cases.

"It's not enough to give a band a free website, and let them upload their songs, you have to provide them with support and back-up marketing efforts to constantly place new potential fans in front of those bands on a daily basis". Newton said, "We aim to provide a real community experience for our members, and that includes helping them with the problem of finding new listeners for their music".

IIMA has already added live instant messaging to the site, and video support for streaming WMA media is set to be released next week. The play charts and statistics features of the IIMA website are state-of-the-art, and provide the listener, as well as the artist with superb feedback regarding who is listening to their music. Their is also an add-a-fan system, which looks promising for those artists looking to build a list of fans they can market their music to, and each artist website has an integrated PAYPAL storefront.

IIMA is a true "association", allowing members to actually have a say in the daily operations of their website, through an ingenious system of petitions and voting, that should revolutionize the way a music site is run, beginning with this one.