Women in Vinyl

Women owned and operated, safe space, record store… check, check, and check. We were thrilled to learn of a new shop checking all those boxes from Erica Rosa who reached out about Bird City Records in LaPlata, Maryland.  Bird City opened this past April and is owned by Shannon Wang and Mona Wise. Erica is…

We’re pleased to introduce you this week to Lena Graaf, who comes recommended by a few readers and is a badass all around, but in particular in the Swedish heavy music scene.  Lena runs a small record label, and distribution company focused on hard rock and metal, called GMR Music Group. GMR has over the…

In our last post we had the opportunity to share Caroline of New West Records’ story, so today we wanted to introduce you to the kind and talented Leigh Rixey, who helps run an imprint of New West Records, the small Athens-based label Strolling Bones Records as Marketing Manager. Leigh handles digital marketing and project…

This week meet the audio queen of New West Records Caroline Barfield, the Catalog and Project Coordinator, who makes up one half of the production team and oversees all things audio in Athens, Georgia. From setting up mastering sessions to approving test pressings, the audio is Caroline’s world!  New West Records is an indie record…

This week we get the pleasure to introduce you to a woman blazing vinyl trails in the Newfoundland region of Canada.  Meet Melisa Penney-Jones who co-owns Flip Side Music & More with her husband Doug, out of Conception Bay South, Newfoundland.  Flip Side just turned four years old in April 2022 and is a primarily…

This week we have the pleasure of introducing you to the fabulous Dina Patel, the General Manager of Sound Performance, a specialist physical media supplier to the music industry with offices in NYC and London. Sound Performance works with leading independent record labels, bands and artists, working to project manage the concept, production and manufacturing…

The week we’re pleased to introduce you to one of a handful of female lathe cutters we’ve met. Cara Potiker out of California, is a singer / songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist who owns and operates a small recording studio, The Comet Theater, that conducts live sessions. She cuts on a Presto 6N under the lathe label,…

We met Shannon through a response she left on one of our anonymous stories Instagram posts, on her experiences during her time in this industry.  We appreciated hearing her point of view and wanted to share more about her and her work as a DJ and all out record maven. Shannon Wiberg, or DJ Action…

This week we’re swaying a little bit away from strictly vinyl to vinyl adjacent in order to shout out a Woman and cause that we feel is important to share.  Phebean Adedamola Oluwagbemi (Febe) is a recording and mixing engineer of both live and digital music based in Nigeria, she is also a co-founder for…