Women in Vinyl

If you’ve listened to The Women in Vinyl Podcast, you know co-host Robyn Raymond, one of our board members and contributors.  She is the only female lathe cutter in Canada and her passion for what she does is infectious.  When she mentioned Tasha Trigger, the only female lathe cutter in the UK, we knew we…

We recently shared a list of women owned record stores, and thankfully another local record store told us about the gem that is Sonidos! Music & More in Beltsville, Maryland.  Meet Claudia Mendiola-Durán founder of Sonidos! which opened in 2019 on her love and passion for music and its ability to bring people together. ​…

Live shows and tours are starting to come back, the need for merch is so important, and with pressing plants continuing to be booked out a company like Diggers Factory provides a great service for bands. Diggers Factory started in 2015 by two friends, Victor and Alexis, who met at the University in France and…

So many of us have gone to various record stores throughout our lives and thought about opening our own; taking pieces of each shop and storing them away for the dream that someday maybe we’d open up just the perfect place. Jada Pfarr the owner of Longshot Vinyl in Downtown Racine, Wisconsin did just that…

Take a moment before you keep reading to think; how many women are in your top ten artists of all time?  How much of your record collection is made up by women artists and musicians?  How many of those women are getting reissues of their record or getting highlighted with Record Store Day releases?  These…

With more vaccines rolling out, and soft re-openings of live music happening in the US, vinyl DJs are also finding themselves getting back into the …spin of things.  This week, we meet Lisa Trevino by day and DJ DevilWoman by night.  Lisa is an all vinyl DJ in Austin, Texas primarily spinning 80s hair metal,…

We have our first double feature!  A blog interview, and podcast release to follow (next week) with Ren Harcar, Quality Assurance (QA) at Gotta Groove Records in Cleveland, Ohio.  From our first exchange I knew Ren was an immediate sister, she also had great insight to share after three years working in QA. She is…

I love getting to know women in this industry so willing to take chances and build their community from the ground up.  That is the case with Zhihe Peng (Shika) the owner of Puppy Fat Records ,an indie record shop and label based in Shenzhen, China. I am also happy to continue to expand the…

Meet Leah, a live vinyl DJ with a focus on music from the 1950’s and 1960’s, as well as a host of two Baton Rouge radio shows that also focus on the 1950’s and 1960’s. Though, she states “…my interests in music vary so much that I expand beyond that era – I go back…