A nonprofit in Sacramento is making shelves of decades-old underground music history available for free.

The Sacramento Music Archive has nearly 20,000 cassettes, VHS tapes, demo recordings, live shows and more online. This includes rare footage of bands like Nirvana, Metallica and Green Day.

Shayne Stacy is the archive's executive director and has been documenting musical performances since 1985.

"I was filming bands when they were small, and then everything got big and money got involved and my videos were being sold without my consent," Stacy said. "It wasn't fun anymore." After giving up for 10 years, a friend convinced Stacy to get back into documenting and collecting music.

Now he's reinvigorated and happy to share the story of Sacramento's music through the online archive.

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