Women in Vinyl

This week a brief chat with Missi Callazzo VP of Megaforce Records (home to early Metallica, Anthrax to name a couple, and one of the longest running indie labels), MRI Entertainment a distribution company, as well as the manager for Third Eye Blind.  She has been in the industry for over 30 years and worked…

Meet Vaunita Goodman, a theater artist, vinyl selector, member of The Baltimore Kissa Society, and founder of The Harmony Pharmacy.  The Baltimore Kissa Society hosts listening parties for jazz enthusiasts.  They gather once a month to listen to records by a different artist or instrument in a relaxed atmosphere.  Kissa in Japanese means cafe, and…

This week meet my colleague and friend Emma Reiter, Production Manager at Furnace Record Pressing.  I know it may seem odd to not have had someone from Furnace featured already, but with Emma on board the time was right.  She manages our customer service team, schedules manufacturing, and handles most of our vendor relationships. My…

Welcome Eugeny Yunis a Bogotá, Colombia resident for the past 16 years. She co-owns and runs a record store with her boyfriend called Three Little Birds (or TLB Records to locals) and is our first introduction to two vinyl collectives, Los Rulos Vinyl Club comprised of all female DJs and incorporating all music genres which…

Meet Lenise Bent, a recording engineer, producer, Foley mixer/editor, foreign dubbing supervisor, archivist, audio repair and  preservationist, consultant, and educator.  Yeah, literally all of those things.  I was introduced to Lenise by Jett, and I’m honored to be able to use Women in Vinyl to share her story with you this week. The little free…

I’m excited to finally introduce Robyn Raymond of Red Spade Records to those of you who may not know her.  I say finally because she was actually one of the first women I’d been in touch to profile when I started the site, but things were sort of in flux for her.  Over time I’d…

Meet Natalie Martinez a musician, and the shop manager at Fort Lauderdale’s community record store staple Radio Active Records where she’s worked for over 10 years this month!  Most people know Natalie as Nat Smallish, her stage and nick name she’s carried with her throughout the years since high school.  She mainly plays bass but…

I’ve only been to Memphis once even though I lived in Nashville, and I loved it there!  So much history and the STAX museum was an experience I’ll never forget.  That said at the time I had no idea about what Memphis Record Pressing (MRP) was up to, and since then they’ve seemed to explode…

I’ve been looking forward to interviewing someone on the equipment side of the vinyl industry and thankfully Callie Stroby of VPI Industries in Cliffwood, NJ was up for it.  I absolutely love VPI.  Their products are beautiful, perform amazingly well, and the family story of the company makes them easy to love and want to…