The Women in Vinyl Podcast

The Women in Vinyl Podcast

The Women in Vinyl Podcast enhances and expands what our mission aims to do: facilitate conversations from the vinyl record industry to educate, demystify, and diversify the vinyl community. Co-hosts: Jenn D’Eugenio - Women in Vinyl founder, avid record collector for over two decades, and sales director at Austin based pressing plant, Gold Rush Vinyl. Robyn Raymond - Red Spade Records owner, currently the sole woman lathe cutter in Canada, and Women in Vinyl executive board member and contributor. The Women in Vinyl Podcast co-hosts, founder Jenn D’Eugenio and contributor Robyn Raymond, share interviews with record labels, pressing plants, cutting engineers, record stores and more to give a look behind the scenes with those working in the vinyl record industry. Including tech talk discussions, to the questions about vinyl you may not know but are too afraid to ask, and everything in-between. The goal being to support overall knowledge base and career development by sharing resources through collaboration and diversity within the vinyl community. Join in and share the love for vinyl with the masses.

Episodes

Episode 60 - Record Store Real Talk with Amanda Schutzman

April 9, 2025 • 79 mins
We’re back with everyone's favorite band tee collector, Amanda Schutzman, to talk all things Record Store Day—including insider tips for this year’s event and how to stop the flippers. Amanda’s been your go-to for all things vinyl her whole life—if she doesn’t know the answer, you’re probably asking something that isn’t record-related. A former Women in Vinyl board member and current volunteer, Amanda has been a guiding light for c...
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Episode 59 - Spinning Culture, Community, and Change with Alexandria Sade

March 19, 2025 • 51 mins
This Women’s History Month, we’re joined by Alexandria Sade—founder of Black Girls Love Vinyl (BGLV), a community platform dedicated to celebrating Black women's connection to vinyl and cultural preservation in music and the arts. From her St. Louis roots to her work in music supervision for major network sitcoms, Alexandria’s journey is as eclectic as her record collection. Tune in as we discuss her path, BGLV’s impact, and how sh...
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Episode 58 - An Animated World with Drew Tetz

February 19, 2025 • 78 mins
In this episode we go from art school to the Super Bowl diving into the Animated World of Drew Tetz. Drew, is an American designer who’s revolutionizing the art of animation. Known for his work with phenakistoscopes—one of the earliest forms of animation—Drew has adapted this pre-cinema technique for modern tools like record players and camera phones, blending psychedelic turntablism with traditional animation to create a unique, a...
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Episode 57 - AMA and a (Re)Introduction

January 22, 2025 • 76 mins
Jenn and Robyn kick off the third year of the podcast, with a reintroduction, and an AMA answering your questions. Vinyl podcasts are everywhere these days, but Women in Vinyl stands apart by amplifying the voices of minority groups often overlooked in the industry. From the hands-on experts pressing records to the innovative minds running indie labels, cutting lacquers, and curating collections, Jenn and Robyn as “the women in vin...
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Episode 56 - Things We Love Part 2

November 20, 2024 • 74 mins
In this episode Jenn and Robyn are flattening warped records, balancing tone arms and cutting tiny records as we bring you Part 2 of our favorite things episode. We get asked all the time what products we love and ahead of the holiday season we thought it was the perfect time to dive in and share our favorite brands, and how we use them.

Part 2 also has a video component! So if you want to watch us continue to navigate these new wat...
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Episode 55 - Things We Love Part 1

October 23, 2024 • 106 mins
We get asked all the time about our favorite products, so in this episode Robyn and Jenn return to their turntables to unwrap, use, discuss and share some their favorite things.  Ahead of the holiday season we thought it was the perfect timing, so join us for part one as we dive into record care with cleaning kits, inner sleeves, polybags and some weird things you can find on the interwebs. Part 2 will be all about some more techy ...
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Episode 54 - Sandy Perez, Revuelta Vinyl Club

September 18, 2024 • 53 mins
In this episode, we continue our journey from a virtual layover and head to South America. We caught up with Sandy Perez in Argentina just before her show. By day, Sandy is a graphic art director; by night, she's a vinyl selector. She’s also the founder of the Revuleta Vinyl Club, a collective dedicated to supporting and empowering women through workshops that keep vinyl culture alive. With a similar mission at heart, we discuss wi...
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Episode 53.5 - Live from RSD Summer Camp

August 14, 2024 • 63 mins
This month we're on a little summer break, but we're not going to leave you high and dry without new content!  With that, we took it live and opened the mic at RSD Summer Camp in New Orleans last month. Hear from record store owners like Tenisha of the World Famous VIP Records in Long Beach, to Joe at Byrdland Records in Washington DC, for a little insight on why they love their jobs and customers so much.

Following a word from some...
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Episode 53 - Dr. Rene Wiedner, University of Warwick

July 17, 2024 • 57 mins
As Henry Rollins says, “knowledge without mileage, is B.S.” and so we’re pausing our world tour to have a more academic conversation with Dr Rene Wiedner. 

Dr Wiedner is an associate professor of organization theory, at the University of Warwick - Coventry, and has been studying developments in vinyl record manufacturing for some time, with a particular interest in what happened between 1990 and 2015, a time when vinyl records were ...
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Episode 52 - Joe K, Owner HoldFast Records

June 12, 2024 • 48 mins
All aboard! This week we head to Jamaica by way of Asbury Park New Jersey, joined by our friend and guide Joe K. Not only is he a great story teller, but the founder and owner of HoldFast Records. 

We learn how Joe and his wife got started in the industry, the production work he cut his teeth on that gave him the tough skin, yet love for community that he takes with him on his trips to Jamaica. Joe has spent years cultivating relati...
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Episode 51 - Kinjal Gosar, Owner Drocer Records

May 15, 2024 • 58 mins
Women in Vinyl Airlines, now arriving in Mumbai! This week we are joined by our new friend, Kinjal Gosar, founder, owner, operator and the vinyl lover behind Drocer Records, India’s up and coming online record store.

We had such an amazing time getting to know Kinjal, her cats, and to find out that even though we’re on another continent record collecting is one thing that connects us all. Drocer Records has new and “pre-loved” vinyl...
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Episode 50 - Kathy Wilson, Co-Owner Suitcase Records

April 17, 2024 • 57 mins
G’Day! Pack your bags and head down under with us! In our 50th episode we're taking a virtual trip to Australia, joined by Kathy Wilson the co-ower of Suitcase Records in Brisbane!  We chat about the differences in the vinyl market in Australia vs North America, and what it was like to leave a stable and fun corporate communications career to open a new pressing plant! What lessons have been learned, and how excited they are for th...
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Episode 49 - The Vinyl Community, with Collectors Carol and Matthew

March 13, 2024 • 76 mins
In this episode we sat down with a couple of collectors and friends, Carol and Matthew, whom you may recognize better as @carolsvinyl and @harma808 on Instagram. We talk about the vinyl community that has emerged over the years on social media, how it has created strong bonds between music and record lovers, but has also come with its own set of diversity and inclusion issues. It's Women's History Month, so what better time to talk...
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Episode 48 - Forever a Music Store, the Coalition with Nina Smith

February 14, 2024 • 44 mins
On this Valentine’s Day edition of the Women in Vinyl Podcast, we’re celebrating Black History Month and the thing we love most records. We are fortunate to be joined by the incredible Nina Smith, liason for the F.A.M.S Coalition (Forever a Music Store). Nina tells us about how FAMS is supporting and nurturing Black entrepreneurs in opening new record stores, sustaining Black owned record stores and giving back to the communities a...
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Episode 47 - The Vinyl Tea with Jenn and Robyn

January 17, 2024 • 48 mins
Happy new year and welcome back to the Women in Vinyl Podcast! New year, new full episode, and in this one you’ll join Jenn and Robyn as we spill the tea about some overarching topics that arose at the end of the year from vinyl prices, to an oversaturated market and the upheaval over Luminate’s reporting. We also talk about some exciting things coming up, where we hope to have an opportunity to see and hear from you more. Don’t mi...
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Episode 46 - Dr. Veronica Skrimsjö, Author and Researcher

December 13, 2023 • 46 mins
It’s our final episode of the year, and we are closing it out on the thoughtful topic of diversification of vinyl. We’re looking at the topic not only from an employment, but collector view. We sat down with Women in Vinyl Advisory Board member, educator, author and researcher Dr Veronica Skrimsjö to discuss what she has uncovered on the topic, why certain generalizations and stereotypes happen and what we can do to break them down...
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    Episode 45 - Pierre van Dongen, Green Vinyl

    October 18, 2023 • 52 mins
    In this episode we are sitting down with Pierre van Dongen from Green Vinyl, a conversation we’ve wanted to have and share with our listeners for quite some time. Green Vinyl is working to innovate the vinyl manufacturing process by developing an environmentally friendly and alternative production process for vinyl records, replacing traditional plastics for eco-friendly materials. Learn more about their innovation in record pressi...
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    Episode 44 - Anouk Rijnders, CCO Record Industry

    September 13, 2023 • 53 mins
    In this episode we get the chance to sit down with the one and only role model and badass Anouk Rijnders, the CCO of one of the largest and most renowned European pressing plants Record Industry as well as Artone Studio. She has helped produce the publication Passion for Vinyl which has a third part coming soon. Most recently she acted as a founding partner of the Haarlem Vinyl Festival; a celebration of all aspects of vinyl cultur...
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    Episode 43 - Sara Pette and Alex Stillman, Outta Wax Pressing

    August 16, 2023 • 45 mins
    On this episode are excited to have conversation with Sara Pette and Alex Stillman co-owners of Outta Wax, a pressing plant and lathe cut studio in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Founded in the spring of 2020 we discuss the ups, downs and reality of starting a record pressing plant. The Outta Wax team are simply put - record nerds - who came together to open a factory whose primary purpose is to uplift and celebrate local and independent ...
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    Episode 42 - Jeri Mills, United Record Pressing

    July 12, 2023 • 41 mins
    After spending 30 years in physical media production from cassette duplication to distribution Jeri is now the VP of Client Services and Front End Operations at United Record Pressing; one of the largest pressing plants in the United States. Jeri is part of the new United, a company that is looking forward to the next 60+ years; after all they did press the first Beatles 7” in North America, and historically housed many African Ame...
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