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Music Programming

Shannon Cook

Producer, Branded Music

For Shannon, music is the soundtrack for life, love, and everything in between. She hails a diverse background in music and arts where she has been involved in music marketing and promotions, arts education and outreach, and program management. Her experience includes five years at Experience Music Project where she conducted music and pop culture research, and coordinated the annual Pop Music Conference. Shannon sees as many shows as possible, travels across the globe to discover new music, loves a good pop hook or a good love song, and Rockabilly makes her head bop. She appreciates a well-crafted song and listens to all kinds of music, regardless of genre, to try to discover why it resonates with listeners. Shannon applies her eclectic taste and expertise to a variety of retail and restaurant environments including Eileen Fisher, Lucy, Garden Ridge, Rockport, and TGI Friday's.

Julia Cummings

Producer, Branded Music

Julia has spent her whole life obsessed with music, theater, and art. In her spare time you might find her writing and recording music or moonlighting in radio both behind the scenes and in public as she is a broadcast engineer and voice-over actor for both commercial and non-commercial radio. Julia’s musical knowledge and experience extends through many genres from classic jazz to indie rock. Her diverse expertise suits her well when designing custom music for fashion-forward accounts such as MAC Cosmetics, Steve Madden and Anthropologie.

Eric Dahlberg

Senior Producer, Branded Music

Eric has a 20-year background in radio and music promotion, and has been an avid guitar player for much of his life. These influences and first-hand experience translate to expert music mixes that Eric creates for many generations. Custom styles that creatively draw from Acid Jazz and Instrumentals are just some of his specialties. Retail environments like Chico's, dELiA*s, J.Jill, Marshall Fields, The Picture People, Christopher & Banks, and Casual Male thrive with Eric's branded programming.

Sean Horton

Producer, Branded Music/Technology Advisor

Since picking up a guitar at age 13, Sean has been actively involved in music for nearly half his life. He truly loves music, the music business, and the creative process involved in producing and creating music. A club DJ, laptop artist, and electronica show promoter and producer by night, Sean applies his creative experience and expertise to craft custom music programs for leading brand retailers including Versace, Diesel, Puma, Ashley Stewart and Hot Topic.

Tom Killorin

Senior Producer, Branded Music

Tom has a knack for bridging the aspirations and emotions of shoppers and diners with the right music combinations. Tom's former work as a DJ and music programmer for commercial, satellite, and online radio strikes a nice balance with his background in retail and restaurant management and provides him a unique perspective when creating custom music mixes. Some of the world's leading brands - Chili's Grill and Bar, Eddie Bauer, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Boston Market, Jack in the Box, Hooters, and Thomasville Furniture to name a few - are the beneficiaries of Tom's creative compilations.

Spencer Manio

Producer, Branded Music

Spencer has a diverse background in music retail and dance clubs. In his off-hours, Spencer is a club DJ, musician in the Saturday Knights, rock journalist and distributor. Before joining PlayNetwork's music team, Spencer managed a Tower Records retail outlet and kept himself busy in marketing and promotions. He applies his creative experience and expertise to craft custom music programs for leading brand retailers including Van’s, White House-Black Market, MaxRave, Finish Line, Athlete’s Foot, Paiva and Timberland.

Perk Perkins

Producer, Branded Music

Perk has a passion for soul music and a soft spot for a good love song. Away from PlayNetwork, you can also find Perk working with varied artists in the recording studio as a producer and recording engineer. Perk enjoys collaborating with leading brand retailers including D.E.M.O., Escada, Fossil, L'Oreal Paris, Ruby Tuesday, Bally Total Fitness, The Finish Line, Levi's, and Maurice's in helping them turn on their in-store customer experience with music.

Beatrice Redding

Producer, Branded Music

Singing was Beatrice’s first love at the age of 3. Since then she has grown devoted to the music industry. Recently she has been a rep for record labels, is a house music DJ at many clubs in the northwest, worked in radio and TV, and dabbles in electronic music production. Funky, deep, techy, soulful and jazzy house are her DJ-ing specialties. Knowing and understanding the audience is an important skill of DJs that she is able to utilize at PlayNetwork. Most of Beatrice’s music library consists of underground hip-hop, rock, house/electronic, old jazz standards and remixes and '80s tunes.

Tony Zuniga

Media Producer

Tony is a master of many trades at PlayNetwork, serving as audio editor for client programs, video programmer for CompUSA, and producer/engineer for messaging, Podcasting, and Web Radio. He also plays a critical role in PlayNetwork's music programming support and production of Starbucks updates. An avid drummer, Tony has done session work plus recorded and toured with signed bands including a stint at South by Southwest. His background prior to becoming a key member of the music programming team includes an audio production degree and ventures in short film.