Women in Vinyl

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…

We have been wanting to feature someone from Pallas Group / Pallas GmbH Records, a pressing plant in Diepholz, Lower Saxony Germany, for some time. Pallas is valued worldwide for the high sound quality of its pressings and is an established name in the music industry since it was founded in 1948.  It is also…

These days the online vinyl community is so supportive and intertwined that it can feel like you actually know people you’ve never met.  Part of what we all love about record stores is that sense of community, but in some cases opening a record store online can have the same affect, and a brick and…

There are those people you meet online and their energy just radiates through all your standard social media posts, L’Oréal is one of those people a thousand percent and then some.  Meet L’Oréal Porçeia or DJ Lola Kinks a Philly-based DJ by night, and by day healing practitioner, sexuality and mental health educator, licensed social…