Women in Vinyl

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…

If you read our last interview with Elaine Banks then you knew this one was coming. We’re thankful Cher reached out to nominate Elaine, and after seeing what she was up to wanted her to participate as well. We appreciate her honest, thoughtful and raw experiences shared in her feature. Cher, or DJ Cher is…

This week we’re featuring a colorful and less discussed part of the process, but one close to my heart, as my background is also in textile / surface design.  We love to see someone taking a part of the process that is often taken for granted, those plain white paper 45 sleeves, and making them…