Everyone, In a few hours the new Epitonic will be online for the 12th Anniversary. Thank you again for your contributions. I should have t-shirts, party invites, mixtapes and all out to everyone in the next week or so!

Here is a radio segment about it from today

http://www.wbez.org/episode-segments/2011-03-07/rebirth-online-music-website-epitonic-83385

All the best,

Justin

Hi Everyone,

I hope everyone is staying warm out there. It's pretty cold here in Chicago but I'm inside most of the time working on the site anyway! My team and I are doing a lot of updating at facebook.com/epitonic and @epitonic on Twitter. Things are really moving rapidly toward launch now, so I encourage you to follow us at the aforementioned social network locations - I will not be posting on Kickstarter too often. Otherwise I will be making some launch plans public soon, and then be in touch with you about your incentives like t-shirts, being an editor, the launch party et al.

Your donations have really made this happen, I would not have been able to get this done without you.

Thanks so much, and go Bears!

Justin

Hello Everyone,

I wanted to break radio silence to say hello and give an update. Epitonic is coming along nicely. As you may know the original team and I have been basically spare time developing the site. So Epitonic has been coming along a little slower than we had originally planned and hoped for (actually pretty typical of a major web development project!). We recently identified that we could use some help, so I have used the Kickstarter money and some money I had in savings to hire a design firm and a freelance developer to help us all finish up the site and support the site after launch.

The ideas we have solidified and are building, the design concepts, and the editorial and functionality directions are all very exciting, and we cannot wait to share them with you. The timeline in place is very realistic now. We plan to be testing the site in January and going public in February. This is subject to an additional delay, but I think it will happen. I personally just finished my semester teaching and will be turning almost my full attention to Epitonic starting next week until late January.

The money raised on Kickstarter along with everyone’s help and encouragement has been absolutely crucial to this relaunch. Thank you so much, and look for more updates soon. Meanwhile be sure to enjoy the daily download at www.epitonic.com/daily and follow @epitonic.

Have a great holiday and thank you again.

Your friend,

Justin Sinkovich

Hello Everyone,

I wanted to check in, say hello, and thank everyone again for your generous contributions, helping us to reach our goal. I will be in touch with you when we start to facilitate our incentives like t-shirts, launch parties, et al. I just returned from San Francisco where Alex, Aaron, and I were able to work on the new site face to face. I also had an opportunity to meet up with several others from the original Epitonic staff, many of which will be contributing editorially. I am super excited about what we are developing, so please stay tuned as we move toward launch. And thank you so much again, this really is a dream come true for us!

All the best,

Justin Sinkovich