Mocking Up Mock Up
I spent most of the day editing Edd Hurt’s notes for our forthcoming reissue of Caroline Peyton’s Mock Up album. Hurt is a total pro newspaper writer, going way too deep and uncovering all kinds...
View Article“When a pimple turns into a rash” or “Journalistic Juan Tamads…”
This week’s blog post is dedicated to the many reviewers of our releases…. Growing up in a dreary southern suburb of Chicago [which shall remain nameless] and cultivating a record collecting habit...
View ArticleBiding our time
As happens at the end of every year, we find ourselves in a holding pattern between records. The hustle and the bustle of trying to shove project after project out the door has been replaced by...
View ArticleWhy Peyton?
An interesting question was posed to me yesterday by a friend: Why release the Caroline Peyton records when A. they’d been issued in Japan a decade ago, and B. Intuition was recently bootlegged by...
View ArticleOut earlier today
In the midst of closing Smart’s Palace, we nearly forgot that Asterisk gave birth to two more titles: Caroline Peyton’s Mock Up and Intuition. While we were busy shipping them out to your favorite...
View ArticleLive Peyton
When Caroline Peyton strolled into Grimey’s on the day we reissued her two albums, their generally well-informed staff had no idea she lived right there in Nashville. Somewhere between that day...
View ArticleGot Live If You Want It
Just four days since our Eccentric Soul Revue wrapped and we’ve got more Numero Live to inform on. While neither of these shows are presented by us, they’ve both got our stamp of approval. If you’re in...
View ArticleNashvillains Unite!
Following the release of Caroline Peyton’s two brilliant Bar-B-Q albums last year, Ms. Peyton returned to the stage for the first time since the early ’80s for a performance in the Basement of...
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