Get your Reload Button Ready for Juke.com

Those of us left here in the office -- our staff was decimated by sickness and vacation days - gathered last Friday in the conference room to hear from long time music journalist/editor Craig Marks. Marks is editor- in-chief of a soon-to-be-launched music news site, juke.com, which he described as 3/4 Blender (which he formerly edited) with some Gawker added in. Aimed at a mainstream but music loving audience, and owned by CBS Interactive, Juke will feature all original writing and news reporting, covering all popular genres. But no inside baseball....very little in the way of music business reporting. They've got their staff in place.... We've got our fingers on the reload button in anticipation of the site's launch later this month.



Here's Marks at the head of the table (squint for a sneak peek at Juke's home page)