With three decades of experience running record labels, distribution companies, and as a touring musician, Eric Astor founded Furnace Record Pressing in 1996 with the mission of providing high quality, customer focused record pressing services to independent artists and labels. Furnace is currently busy building a brand new vinyl pressing plant in Virginia.

Eric is a partner in ORG Music, a record label focused on vinyl reissues for artists including: Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Tom Petty, Johnny Cash, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman and Mike Watt.

In 2013 Astor co-founded VinylStyl, a world leader in vinyl record cleaning and archival products.

For the last year, Eric has been involved in developing turntables, headphones and other high quality audio gear for Shinola Audio.

Born and raised in the rough-and-tumble seaport town of Detroit, Michigan, Ben Blackwell has been a reluctant participant in the overhyped underground rock and roll community (both as a performer in the Dirtbombs and on the label-side in his work through Third Man and his own imprint Cass Records) since 1999. He ate his first salad at the age of 21, has never gone to the bathroom on an airplane and has read every issue of Vanity Fair cover-to-cover since 2006.