Riley Manion

Riley Manion is a Bloomington, Indiana native, and has been surrounded by music since birth. Dancing in diapers to P-Funk and the B-52s, then volunteering as a DJ for WFHB’s Youth Radio, eventually going to as many shows as possible, yet never picking up an instrument lead to a drive to get behind the scenes […]
Josh Madell

Josh Madell, Head of Artist and Label Strategy, Secretly Distribution; Founder, Other Music Josh Madell co-founded the Other Music record shop in New York City in 1995, and for the next 20 years managed that busy retail store, record label, and live events company. After closing in 2016, he joined Secretly Distribution, to continue his […]
Mona Dehghan

Mona Dehghan is the Senior Director of Marketing and Project Management at Mute and a DJ on WFMU. She got her start in the music industry volunteering for her college radio station, KALX in Berkeley which led to her getting a masters in Radio Broadcasting at Goldsmiths College in London. From there she became the […]
Terry Cole

Terry Cole opened Plaid Room Records in 2015 with his younger brother, Bob. Cole has been surrounded by vinyl his entire life. He financed his undergraduate and graduate degrees by selling records on eBay from 1999-2006 and started his own soul-centric record label in 2007, Colemine Records.
Jason Jones

Jason Jones is Director of A&R at Rhino Records, where he has developed and produced projects ranging from The Replacements’ recently released Pleased to Meet Me (Deluxe Edition) and 2019’s acclaimed Dead Man’s Pop to Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version (25th Anniversary Edition). Fun House (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) […]
Stacy Karp

Stacy Karp has been working with physical audio formats since 1998 when she began her music industry career at the legendary label Rykodisc. After her tenure there, Stacy began her trajectory at A to Z Media, where she has been working since 2007. She is the Chief Operating Officer and works closely with A to Z Founder Sarah […]
Mike Elliott

Mike Elliott is a New Jersey native and lifelong musician with a knack for problem solving, which has led him to where he is now: lead press operator at Independent Record Pressing.
Harry Weinger

A veteran of the entertainment industry, Harry Weinger is currently Vice President of A&R for Universal Music Enterprises, the catalog reissue arm of Universal Music Group. Weinger has produced and/or managed hundreds of releases, winning two Grammy® Awards and other honors for his work. His definitive overview of the music of Mr. Brown, the box […]
Thorsten Megow

Born near the Baltic Sea coast in East Germany exactly the year The Beatles occupied the top five of the Billboard Charts Thorsten was early socialised musically by listening to radio RTL on AM on his parents’ valve-powered radio, later taping music off the airwaves late at night and helping his dad building higher and […]
Robyn Raymond

Back in 2017, I was having a bit of a professional crisis, and decided that I was going to get back into the music business after taking a brief hiatus to work in another field. I was a dedicated record collector and enthusiast at this point, and having heard about the vinyl pressing plant that […]