Women in Vinyl

Shelly Westerhausen is the head of North American physical marketing and sales at Secretly Distribution. Her role is to oversee a small team of marketing and sales reps that handle selling and marketing of all Secretly’s records to indie stores, big box chains, and online retailers in North America. They currently work with over 40…

Meet Magdalena of Hi-Tide Recordings, an international record label based in Asbury Park New Jersey specializing in surf, instrumental, Hawaiian music and more.  Her and her husband Vincent run the label together and produce the annual Hi-Tide Summer Holiday (formerly Asbury Park Surf Music Festival).  They also play records as a duo under the name…

Meet Danielle, co-owner of Neat Neat Neat Records & Music a record store, event venue, bar and record label in Fort Wayne, Indiana.  The store carries new and used vinyl, CDs, cassettes and hifi gear to meet the needs of the new and seasoned audiophile alike, while the label and event venue seek to promote…

Today I get to introduce you to Gail George, formerly of Universal Music Group and Abkco Records.  I met Gail through work and immediately we hit it off, she is one of those people that after we got to talking I knew I not only wanted to interview but was a genuine woman that I…

Meet Ashely co owner of Vertical House Records a shop in Huntsville, AL. While I have spent some time in Alabama, I actually met Ashely through the blog and am happy to be able to give you a glimpse behind the scenes there. Ashley is also a wedding photographer (you can find her work here White…

This week meet Mandy Morgan, owner and operator of Nadine Records, a primarily vinyl based independent record label in Portland, OR. Her label doesn’t have one specific sound, but tends to focus on genre-blending underground music in the Pacific Northwest. She also works at Cascade Record Pressing in the Quality Control department and does shipping…

I’m happy to get to introduce you to Jett Galindo, mastering engineer and vinyl cutter at the Bakery Mastering in LA. I had connected with her for the blog and then we also recently had the pleasure of working together on a project she cut and we are pressing. When she’s not in the studio…

Amanda and I met on Instagram as many people tend to these days, I was intrigued by her bio which states all the vinyl things she’s involved in and then says, “…basically I sell records” and she isn’t kidding.  I love that her story into vinyl starts with her Dad and that she’s carrying on…

An all vinyl radio show, yes please! Today meet Debra Warren co-host of Black Circle Radio. I’m sure a lot of you have heard of Black Circle Radio Debra and Mitch are pretty active in the vinyl community from attending Making Vinyl to their presence on social media. When Debra isn’t spinning records on the…