INTRODUCING NEW iPAD-ONLY APP MUZINE PERSONALIZED MUSIC NEWS & ARTIST PROFILES
iTunes App presents music news and artist information with the fan in control.
APP LINK: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/muzine/id461555684
WEBSITE: http://www.muzineapp.com/
Los Angeles, CA (September 20th, 2011) iPad app creator and music industry executive Jim Cannella of CannellaCo, LLC launches the first iPad app dedicated to music news. Muzine is designed to be the comprehensive source for artist stories and in-depth profiles presented in a magazine format. Muzine draws inspiration from the most innovative newsreaders and emerging digital magazine category, but focuses entirely on music and gives the fan control of the editorial experience.
Download the iTunes app, priced at $1.99, and a curated "Features" section loads with engaging multimedia stories from the music landscape. The cross-section includes everything from top-tier publications and dailies to blogs large and small, covering a range of topics about developing music trends, buzz bands, and major live event coverage. Content is culled from thousands of media sources.
Use the "Search" function to explore detailed artist profiles, complete with bios, photos, videos, tour dates, and suggestions of similar bands. The user can import artist selections from their existing song library. The standout feature of Muzine is the "My News" section, where the fan controls the content. "My News" automatically updates 24/7 with a thorough list of news articles and other media about their preferred artists.
Muzine was created with user flexibility and design in mind. Any article can be shared via Facebook and Twitter or saved to a Favorites page. Registering allows users to connect and share their Favorites with each other. In addition, an integrated audio player, allows users to listen to MP3s found in news articles and continue exploring without interruption. This audio player stores a track history, so the user can return and listen in the future. Combined, these features offer the ultimate music reading and listening experience.
Muzine was built from the ground up focused entirely on music. Muzine’s proprietary platform aggregates all the major music news sources, parses articles to identify the subject, band names and multimedia, and then indexes the data so it can be searched. Muzine has tapped The Echo Nest, the world’s leading music intelligence platform with over 5 billion data points on over 30 million songs and 2 million artists, to provide rich contextual data and music discovery within Muzine.
“After many years in the music industry working to connect artists with consumers, it occurred to me as a passionate fan myself, that today’s digital landscape has made it too difficult to stay in touch with bands, discover new sounds, and watch them all evolve over time,” explains Cannella. “Fans who have a strong passion for music, but limited time, tend to get lost in all the clutter out there. Muzine is meant to make it simple and enjoyable again.”
Cannella is already developing additions to the Muzine App. He is not revealing details yet, but has plans to roll out product extensions to serve a variety of market demographics and topics.
About Jim Cannella / CannellaCo, LLC
Jim Cannella launched the digital company, CannellaCo, LLC, following fifteen years of expertise producing and marketing live entertainment in the concert industry. Cannella has dedicated his career to the connection between creative performance and consumer experience. Cannella started out creating and executing large-scale music events, which evolved into packaging national touring properties and promoting hundreds of concerts with Concerts West, AEG Live, and House of Blues Entertainment. During his tenure at HOB, Cannella launched a series of digital initiatives including an emerging artist development program and podcast, interactive web programming and through a multi-year partnership with Motorola led an industry-first effort to integrate mobile and wireless technologies. He has consulted for mobile startups on projects adapting mobile content to fit music, sports, radio and the development of a wireless ticketing platform. Cannella is passionate about the next frontier connecting fans with memorable music experiences through technology.
About The Echo Nest
The Echo Nest is a music intelligence company that connects the greatest application developers to the best data and music to enable the next generation of music experiences. Powered by the world’s only machine learning system that actively reads about and listens to music everywhere on the web, The Echo Nest opens up a massive repository of dynamic music data to application developers ranging from one-person operations to multinational corporations. In addition to the most advanced music application development software and developer toolkits, The Echo Nest’s intelligence platform offers over 5 billion data points on over 30 million songs and over 2 million artists. Over 200 music applications have been built on its platform to date and The Echo Nest’s customers reach over 100 million music fans every month.
The Echo Nest was co-founded by two MIT Media Lab PhDs. Winner of three National Science Foundation SBIR grants, The Echo Nest’s investors include Matrix Partners and Commonwealth Capital Ventures, Argos Management and three co-founders of MIT Media Lab. For more information, visit echonest.com.
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Publicity Contact for MUZINE:
Firefly Media / Penny Guyon penny@firefly-media.net
Tel 323-874-0776
Publicity Contact for THE ECHO NEST:
Elissa Barrett elissa@echonest.com
Tel : 617-548-8993
Twitter: @echonest
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