Happy Holidays and, You’re Welcome!
Snowhawk 2023 is live for streaming and free download! We did it again! 18 seasonal songs of all walks to help you stumble to the finish line of 2023! A Rueful Noise, The Wild Honey Collective, Cavalcade, The Plurals, Jeremy Porter, Harborcoat, The Hunky Newcomers, Tim Hoh Jr. and all the related all stars! Artwork by Craig Horky, as always.
Posted in A Rueful Noise, Bermuda Snohawk, Cavalcade, GTG Activity, GTG Records, Harborcoat, Honah Lee, Jeremy Porter and The Tucos, Lansing, The Hunky Newcomers, The Plurals, The Stick Arounds, The Wild Honey Collective
Tagged Americana, Bermuda Mohawk, Bermuda Snohawk 2023, Bermuda Snowhawk, Craig Horky, DIY Record Label, GTG Records, Holiday Music, Indie Rock, Lansing, Punk
This weekend in Lansing!
7/28 – No Skull + A Rueful Noise at The Avenue Cafe
No Skull/Bloody Butterflies/A Rueful Noise/A Bloody Skull Noise at The Avenue
7/28 – Cavalcade at Displaced Manor NIGHT GOAT (OHIO)/ CAVALCADE/ CAREER FUNERAL
7/30 – The Plurals + A Rueful Noise (Nicholas/Jenny duo) + Narc Out the Reds (Barotono solow) more at MACS BARA Benefit For Mr Wolf
CITY PULSE article on Wolf/ the Benefit
Posted in A Rueful Noise, Cavalcade, GTG Activity, Lansing, No Skull, The Plurals
Tagged A Rueful Noise, Cavalcade, DIY, GTG Records, Lansing, Mac's Bar, No Skull, party, Punk, The Avenue Cafe, The Plurals
Come on out!
3/4 – Jeremy Porter & the Tucos @ Nancy Whiskey (Detroit) – Corktown Music
3/4 – A Rueful Noise @ Lager House (Detroit) – Corktown Music Fest
3/4 – Cavalcade @ The Avenue (Lansing)
3/10 – The Plurals, LoLo @ The Avenue (Lansing) w/ PET ME
3/24 – Jeremy Porter & Tucos @ Ghost Light (Hamtramck, MI) w/ Bottlecap Mountain
3/25 – Jeremy Porter & the Tucos, Wild Honey Collective @ The Avenue (Lansing) w/ Bottlecap Mountain
3/30 – The Stick Arounds @ The Village Idiot (Maumee, OH)
3/31 – The Stick Arounds @ Buzzbin (Canton, OH)
3/31 – The Wild Honey Collective @ Horrocks (Lansing)
Posted in A Rueful Noise, Cavalcade, GTG Activity, Jeremy Porter and The Tucos, The Hunky Newcomers, The Plurals, The Stick Arounds, The Wild Honey Collective
Tagged A Rueful Noise, Bermuda Mohawk Productions, Cavalcade, Corktown Music Festival, Detroit Music, GTG Records, Jeremy Porter and The Tucos, Lansing, PET ME, Punk, Silver Maple Kill Records, The Avenue Cafe, The Plurals, The Wild Honey Collective
Happy New Year! Catch a show:
1/20/2023 – The Wild Honey Collective @ Horrocks (Lansing, MI)
1/20/2023 – A Rueful Noise @ New Dodge (Hamtramck, MI)
1/21/2023 – Mistic Mountian @ The Avenue Cafe (Lansing)
1/26/2023 – Jeremy Porter & the Tucos @ Village Idiot (Maumee, OH)
1/28/2023 – Cavalcade @ Papa Pete’s/Jeffest 2 (Kalamazoo, MI)
1/28/2023 – The Wild Honey Collective @ Founders (Grand Rapids, MI)
2/4/2023 – Cavalcade @ Mulligan’s (Grand Rapids)
2/10/2023 – The Stick Arounds @ The Avenue
2/11/2023 – A Rueful Noise, Cavalcade @ The Ave Anvil Crawler Release
2/11/2023 – The Stick Arounds @ Cadieux Cafe (Detroit)
2/25/2023 – The Plurals @ The Fledge (Lansing)
Posted in A Rueful Noise, Cavalcade, GTG Activity, Jeremy Porter and The Tucos, Lansing, The Plurals, The Stick Arounds, The Wild Honey Collective
Tagged A Rueful Noise, Cavalcade, DIY, GTG Records, Independent Record Label, Jeremy Porter, Lansing, Lansing Music Scene, Live Music, Michigan Music Scene, Phonophore Records, Punk, The Avenue Cafe, The Plurals, The Tucos, Wow
The obvious lead thought here is that The Wild Honey Collective Volume 2 is now available digitally and on CD. I’ve been chipping away at this project since LAST July so it looks like I need to find a new hobby. Or, a new volume. Check it out on all the streaming platforms – vinyl pre-orders are still happening too, fingers crossed our September projection for that release holds up. We’re celebrating the release of the new album with a few things this month, starting with a 6:45 set TONIGHT at Smiling Acres Music Festival in Trufant, MI. Then we’ll be all the wau up (UP) in Copper Harbor, MI later this month, before a certified weird GTG Revue tour will take a few Wild Honey folks and a few Harborcoat folks on the road at the end of the month. But, that’s later. Let’s check out the general show calendar for all the GTG-ers this July:7/1 – The Wild Honey Collective @ Smiling Acres Music Festival (Trufant, MI)
7/4 – Jeremy Porter & The Tucos @ Michigan Rib Fest (Lake Orion, MI)
7/7 – Jeremy Porter & The Tucos @ 11 Mile Sessions Live (Royal Oak, MI) Live audio/video webcast 6-8PM EST
7/8 – A Rueful Noise @ The Old Miami (Detroit, MI)
7/21 – The Wild Honey Collective @ Concert In The Park (Copper Harbor, MI)
7/22 – Jeremy Porter & The Tucos @ Short`s Brewing Company (Bellaire, MI)
7/22 – Narc Out The Reds @ The Avenue (Lansing, MI)
7/23 – Jeremy Porter & The Tucos @ The Workshop Brewing (Traverse City, MI)
7/26 – Cavalcade @ Sanctuary (Detroit, MI) w/ Cave In
7/29 – Erotic Novels @ The Saint (Asbury Park, NJ)
7/29 – A Rueful Noise @ The Avenue (Lansing)
Not bad for a mid-summer run! So, as mentioned above, at the end of the month we’ll be doing The Wild Honey Collective Featuring Harborcoat Tour 2022, following the lead of the run we did last fall with Jeremy Porter. For this tour Tommy (me), Danielle (my wife), and Adam (my Aymor) will be joining up with Matt and Joel from Harborcoat and whoever else gets in the van to do a revue and supergroup through the Midwest and up to New England. Matt will do some songs solo, we’ll back him up, he’ll play some songs with us, we’ll do some string band stuff, some electrified stuff, on and on it goes:
The Wild Honey Collective Featuring Harborcoat Tour 2022
7/25 – Cleveland, OH @ Medieval Pub
7/26 – Syracuse, NY @ House Show
7/27 – Troy, NY @ Troy Speakeasy
7/28 – Portland, ME @ Blue
7/29 – Searsmont, ME @ Threshers Brewing
7/30 – Brattleboro, VT @ River Garden Marketplace
7/31 – New City, NY @ District 96
Summer tourin! We love New York (state)! Looking forward to it very much…
In other news, Narc Out The Reds is on track for a fall release, Bank Of America is set to begin album recording sessions this month, Cavalcade is havin’ at it, A Rueful Noise will have their debut 7-inch out in August, and Jeremy Porter and the Tucos will hopefully have their latest 7-inch out by year’s end. And…
GTG Fest is October 21&22 in Lansing. Mark it down!
Posted in Cavalcade, Drinking Mercury, GTG Activity, GTG Records, Harborcoat, Jeremy Porter and The Tucos, Lansing, Narc Out the Reds, The Wild Honey Collective, Tour
Tagged Bermuda Mohawk Productions, DIY, Fucking Awesome, GTG Records, Harborcoat, Jeremy Porter and The Tucos, July 2022, Phonophore Records, Punk, The Avenue Cafe, The Wild Honey Collective, Wow
Spring Activity! Here’s the live show updates for GTG bands in May 2022:
5/6 – Everybody Loves Ramones @ The Avenue Cafe (Lansing, MI) w/ Otho Roi (The Cure) and Children In Heat (Misfits)
5/6 – Cavalcade @ Turnstiles (Grand Rapids, MI)
5/12 – Jeremy Porter & the Tucos @ The Law Office Pub (Yorkville, IL)
5/13 – Jeremy Porter & the Tucos @ Main Street Music (Brooklyn, WI)
5/14 – A Rueful Noise @ Parts & Labor (Dearborn, MI)
5/14 – Jeremy Porter & the Tucos @ (Mary`s Place) Rockford, IL
5/19 – Jeremy Porter & the Tucos @ The Brass Rail (Fort Wayne, IN)
5/20 – The Stick Arounds, The Wild Honey Collective, Harborcoat @ The Avenue [Matty’s 50th Birthday Bash]
5/20 – Jeremy Porter & the Tucos @John Brown´s on the Square (Marion, IL)
5/21 – The Stick Arounds @ LiveWire Lounge (Chicago, IL)
5/21 – Jeremy Porter & the Tucos @ Slaughterhouse Brewing Co. (Auburn, IL)
And as always, lots of friends at The Avenue Cafe:
Posted in Cavalcade, GTG Activity, Harborcoat, Jeremy Porter and The Tucos, Lansing, The Stick Arounds, The Wild Honey Collective
Tagged A Rueful Noise, Bermuda Mohawk Productions, Cavalcade, GTG Records, Harborcoat, Jeremy Porter and The Tucos, Lansing Music Scene, Michigan Music, Silver Maple Kill Records, The Avenue Cafe, The Stick Arounds, The Wild Honey Collective
Jeremy Porter and The Tucos Shows:
4/14 @ Green Lantern (Lexington, KY)
4/15 @ The Loud (Huntington, WV)
4/16 @ Taffy’s (Eaton, OH)
4/19 @ PJ’s Lager House (Detroit, MI)
The Wild Honey Collective Shows:
4/16 @ LowellArts (Lowell, MI)
4/21 @ Hop River Brewing (Ft Wayne, IN)
4/22 @ Hotel Music Fest (Conneaut Lake, PA)
4/23 @ Stoopfest (Lansing, MI)
The Stick Arounds Shows:
4/16 @ Universal Intentional Organization (Detroit, MI)
4/23 2 PM show @ The Record Lounge/Record Store Day (Lansing, MI)
4/28 Acoustic @ Beards Brewery (Petoskey, MI)
4/29 @ The Workshop Brewing Company (Traverse City, MI)
4/30 @ Short’s Brewing Company (Bellaire, MI)
PLUS…
4/9 – BOA w/ Bonehawk, Mr Denton @ The Avenue Cafe (Lansing, MI)
4/16 – No Skull, Live Music Band @ The Avenue
Those two shows are part of the Capital City Film Festival 2022, which includes a series of six shows at The Avenue featuring artists like Chirp, NWRH, Ozay Moore, James Gardin, Lipstick Jodi, Mark Lavengood, Jen Sygit and more from 4/7-4/16. Read about the fest in general here and check out their whole schedule of movies and music here.
THEN…
4/22 – Harborcoat @ Dogwood Center (Fremont, MI)
4/22 & 4/23 – STOOPFEST (Lansing) feat Screaming Females, Sidney Gish, Frontier Ruckus and many, many more! (Including Cavalcade, Wild Honey and A Rueful Nosie)
4/29 – GTG House Show w/ Mistic Mountian, Two Houses, Foxgrave (Lansing)
4/30 – Narc Out The Reds, A Rueful Noise @ The Avenue
Does that cover it?? Lots of shows! Great stuff. As always, folks are in the studio and GTG Family label Phonophore Records just released a tribute to Guided By Voices featuring brand new recordings from The Stick Arounds, The Plurals, Jeremy Porter and The Tucos, Harborcoat, Isaac Vander Schuur, The Wild Honey Collective, Gumsmack, A Rueful Noise, The Soods, No Skull, Cutlass Supreme and many more… 23 tracks!
Posted in Cavalcade, GTG Activity, GTG House Shows, Harborcoat, Jeremy Porter and The Tucos, Lansing, Narc Out the Reds, No Skull, The Hat Madder, The Plurals, The Soods, The Stick Arounds, The Wild Honey Collective, Tour, Two Houses
Tagged Capital City Film Festival, DIY, Fucking Awesome, Lansing, Michigan Music Scene, Punk, stoopfest, The Avenue Cafe
We’d call it a miracle but no one should be surprised that for the 15th year in a row, BMP and GTG have delivered a whacky holiday compilation. New music from The Hunky Newcomers, A Rueful Noise, The Plurals, Satyrasis, Cutlass Supreme, Jeremy Porter, The Ryne Experience, Cavalcade and more. Happy days!
Local Lansing folk will probably be hip to this now, but GTG is more-or-less booking and promoting the majority of the music at The Avenue Cafe these days. Here’s what we’ve got for the whole month of August:
That’s a good run there, eh? We’ve got the first full-length show by The Wild Honey Collective, the first public Lansing shows from Cavalcade and The Plurals in at least 18 months, a record release by the Cartridge Family(?!?!??), GTG Fest familiars like The Ryne Experience, LVRS, and Marsha, Mike Reed from Small Brown Bike… great stuff all around!
Shows are getting to be a little more commonplace – on top of the above listed we’ve got The Plurals playing Taste of Michigan City (Michigan City, IN) the afternoon of August 7, The Wild Honey Collective play from 5-9 at the Beer Garden at Horrocks Farm Market in Lansing on August 21 as well as an afternoon slot at Sundried Music Fest in Mason on August 28, and then The Stick Arounds take the Horrocks stage themselves on August 28 too. All of these events are free and promise great times. We need ’em! Stay safe out there everyone, masks are still a good thing!
Posted in Cavalcade, GTG Activity, Jeremy Porter and The Tucos, Lansing, Live, The Plurals, The Stick Arounds, The Wild Honey Collective
Tagged Americana, August 2021 Live Music, Cavalcade, Horrocks Farm Market, Indie Rock, Jeremy Porter, Lansing Music Scene, LVRS, Punk, The Avenue Cafe, The Plurals, The Ryne Experience, The Wild Honey Collective
On Friday July 9 Matt Carlson (the ol’ Harborcoat and Stick Around man himself) and Johnny Aimcrier will be playing at Brickhaven in Grand Ledge, MI. Tommy and Danielle from Wild Honey Collective will be joining them for a few songs and to do a couple of ours too.
Saturday July 10 will see Cavalcade play the first show at Pyramid Scheme in Grand Rapids since early 2020. Way to go, boys! Somehow, GTG-affiliated acts are weirdly ushering in the return of live music to the, er, weirdos of the Midwest. Case in point….
Saturday July 10 is also the let’s-not-overstate-it-too-much return of shows to the Avenue Cafe in Lansing, featuring The Hunky Newcomers, Foxgrave, and Jeremy Porter. Geez! That feels good to say. No cover, 21+, 9 PM, just… come and watch! Wow! There’s shows every Saturday in July at the Avenue, and they’ve all got a GTG flavor to them: Saturday July 17 RK Andrews from No Skull opens up for our friends Bloody Butterflies and Bubak, Saturday July 24 Nicholas Weltschmerz opens up for the debut show of the latest Josh David fronted band Frowntown, and on July 31 the Wild Honey Duo will open up for a night of music featuring Michigan mainstay Jen Sygit. Something for everyone, you’re welcome!
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