Sarah Lewitinn
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Sarah Lewitinn was an assistant editor at SPIN Magazine and is the founder of Stolen Transmission, a music record label in partnership with Island Def Jam. Besides being an author, she has her own personal blog at Ultragrrrl.com and is a deejay.
Biography
Born in New York City on February 3, 1980 to Egyptian-Jewish parents and raised in Tenafly, NJ, Lewitinn began her career as a teenager writing for the AOL-based ABC Kidz site before interning at Spin Magazine. It was at that time she received the moniker of "Ultragrrrl", by which she continues to be known. After briefly working at the defuct Kurt Anderson-run Inside.com in 1999, Lewitinn was hired as an assistant to Michael Hirschorn at VH-1. In 2002, she was the first manager for both rock bands stellastarr* and My Chemical Romance, both prior to their first major record deals. Her blog, Ultragrrrl.com (launched in July 2003), further established her as a taste-maker in the New York indie rock scene, as did her close personal friendship with the rock band The Killers early in their career. She returned to Spin several months later, this time as an assistant editor before starting her own record label, Stolen Transmission in partnership with Rob Stevenson and Island Def Jam. She is also the author of the book The Pocket DJ.