ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Nominee (@IAMNominee)

April 27, 2013 JUKEBOXDC Staff Music No Comments  

Recently we’ve caught wind of up and coming artist Nominee, an artist hailing from Ohio (now living and making moves in California). A well-rounded artist (in his words, “Justin Timberlake and Drake meet John Mayer’), he was signed to Starrunner Records and is pretty much hitting the ground running, so to speak.

Above, you can check out his self-directed visual for ‘Take It Off’.

Below, we have a clip where Nominee breaks down more of who he is as an artist, his influences, what you can expect from the rising star and more. In addition, we’ve included a few tracks for you to enjoy.

Long and short, Nominee aims to change the perception of what the masses think Pop music is, and we definitely look forward to hearing more from Nominee in the near future.


‘Watch Me Go’


‘My Girlfriend’


‘Work’

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Spin Media Acquires VIBE Magazine

April 27, 2013 JUKEBOXDC Staff News No Comments  

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Not only is the magazine that Quincy Jones built now a part of Spin Media, but all signs point to VIBE’s imminent end as a print publication….from New York Times:

SpinMedia announced the sale on Thursday, saying that it had bought the rights to Vibe’s print magazine and its related sites, Vibe.com and Vibevixen.com, from Vibe Media. The price was not disclosed.

The sale reunites the two publications, which more than a decade ago were part of the same company, Vibe/Spin Ventures, before each went through a series of sales.

Calling Vibe “an industry leader in the urban and hip-hop category for decades,” Steve Hansen, SpinMedia’s chief executive, added in an interview: “It’s really exciting to add this to SpinMedia’s collection of music properties and bring more digital DNA to the team and see what they can do.”

SpinMedia, until recently known as Buzz Media, owns or represents more than 40 sites, like Celebuzz, Idolator and JustJared, that cater to young pop-culture fans and compete with a range of sites like Gawker, TMZ, Pitchfork and BuzzFeed.

After it bought Spin last summer, Buzz Media promptly shut down the print magazine and laid off a third of its staff. It said it would concentrate on the Web site and consider eventually reviving the print version of Spin in some form.

Since then, Spin’s online traffic has doubled, but Mr. Hansen said that the company was no closer to reviving the magazine and that it planned to shut down Vibe’s print magazine later this year.

“We are still trying to find a print model that makes economic sense in the digital age,” he said.

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