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IWD 2018 Roundup: Record Labels Run by Women

Featured image credit: Maria Svarbova

For this International Women Day we decided to resurrect older Twitter thread and compile a list of record labels run by women. Feel free to suggest any labels we missed in comment section!

100% Silk – run by Amanda Brown
Aerocade – run by Meerenai Shim (suggested by And Otherness/Greg Skloff)
Bastard Girls – suggested by Tendencyitis
Dubbed Tapes – run by GinOnDiamonds
Eye Vybe Records – run by Karissa Talanian (suggested by Kris Thompson)
Figureight Records – run by Hildur Maral
Flaming Pines – run by Kate Carr
Injazero Records – run by Sine Büyüka
Kissability – run by Jen Long (suggested by Third Kind Tapes)
Monika Enterprise – run by Gudrun Gut (suggested by Petridisch)
Morpheus Revisited – run by Emily Loren – new label, no releases yet, but some promises
Objects Limited – run by Lara Rix-Martin
Punk in my Vitamins – run by Courtney K
Rocket Girl – run by Vinita Joshi
Saffron Records – run by Laura Lewis-Paul
Sargent House – run by Cathy Pellow
Sofia Records – run by Natalia Beylis
Spinster – run by Sarah Louise, Emily Hilliard and Sally Morgan
Stargazer Records – run by Isabel Parzich
Thrill Jockey – run by Bettina Richards
Tormenta Electrica – run by Deborah Machado (suggested by Ondness)
Track and Field – run by Kate Davis (suggested by Z Tapes / Filip)
Translinguistic Other – run by Emily Pothast
Xylem Records – run by Norah Lorway (suggested by Phantom Circuit)
Co-run by women
Dusk NotesSoramimi
Footfalls RecordsLeah Toth
Not Not FunAmanda Brown (suggested by Caustic Cover Critic)
Crash Symbols / Easy BayLiz Pavlovic (see also – Decoder MagThe Furr)
Merge Records – Laura Ballance

Ilya S.

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