Marguerite Ellis
Founding editor
Music historian, former record-shop buyer, and the reason this site exists. Writes the blues and punk desks.
About us
Our stories, our sound, our strength
The Vinyl Mind began as a shelf of records and a question: why does so much of the music we love come from people the world was failing? We answer it story by story — with archives, with clinicians reading over our shoulder, and with a community room where nobody has to perform being fine.
Who makes it
Dr. Owen Farrow
Clinical reader
Psychiatrist and archive obsessive. Reviews every story for how it represents diagnosis, treatment and recovery.
Terrance Boyd
Sound editor
Producer and forum moderator. Builds the listening sessions and keeps the community room steady.
How we handle a difficult subject
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We write about people, not cases
Names, not diagnoses as identities. No speculative diagnosis of anyone who never disclosed one.
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We avoid method detail
Stories about suicide follow safe-messaging guidance and always carry a route to support.
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We show our work
Recordings, ledgers, interviews and scholarship are cited inside each story so readers can go further.
Other ways to reach us
We are a remote editorial team, so email is the fastest route. For anything urgent about your own health, please use the crisis lines on our resources page rather than waiting for a reply from us.
Pitching a story? Include the record or era at the centre of it, the sources you already have, and why it belongs to the mental health side of music history.