Maggie Vail
CEO at Bikini Kill Records
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMaggie Vail is a music industry executive and founder with over two decades of experience building independent labels, managing artist careers, and developing open-source tools for musician sustainability. Rising from mailorder and publicity at Kill Rock Stars to VP, she worked on hundreds of landmark releases and signed influential bands while later steering CASH Music as co‑executive and then sole executive director to empower artists digitally. As CEO of Bikini Kill Records and partner at Semaphore Mgmt & Consulting, she combines archival label stewardship with contemporary artist management for acts like Orville Peck and Shamir. Based in Knoxville, she also tours and records as a bassist and hosted an eclectic radio show, reflecting a hands‑on creative practice that informs her executive work. Known for marrying DIY indie-rock principles with pragmatic nonprofit and management strategies, she brings rare institutional memory of the 1990s indie scene to modern digital-first artist services.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
French history literature art and language, French history literature art and language at The Evergreen State CollegeChinese, Chinese at Western Washington University
Github Skills (5)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
cashmusic/watt
May 2016 - Apr 2019
The code driving our publishing/tagging system on archive.cashmusic.org
Contributions:214 commits, 158 PRs, 132 pushes in 2 years 10 months
publishingtaggingdrivingarchive
cashmusic/platform
May 2012 - May 2016
A free and open platform giving all musicians access to tools that let them manage, promote, and sell their music online.
Contributions:168 commits, 15 PRs, 85 pushes in 4 years
musiciansopen-platformlmschurchlet
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