GTG Fest 2022: October 21&22 in Lansing, MI A celebration of DIY music and community curated by GTG Records.
OCT 21, DOORS AT 8, $5 COVER: 8:15-9:30 Wild Honey and Friends (feat. Harborcoat, Drinking Mercury) 9:30-10:00 Little Things 10:00-10:30 No Skull 10:30-11:00 The Quirk 11:00-11:30 Cutlass Supreme 11:30-12:00 She/Her/Hers 12:00-12:30 The Stick Arounds 12:30-1:00 The Hunky Newcomers
OCT 22, DOORS AT 8, $5 COVER: 8:30-9:00 LoLo / Hattie Plural 9:00-9:30 Cameo Headlands 9:30-10:00 Narc Out The Reds 10:00-10:30 Sweet Pea 10:30-11:00 Lazy Genius 11:00-11:30 Ladyship Warship 11:30-12:00 A Rueful Noise 12:00-12:30 The Plurals 12:30-1:00 The Jackpine Snag
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)
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)
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 labelPhonophore Records just released a tribute to Guided By Voicesfeaturing 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!
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!
We’re very excited to be hosting This Must Be The Place: Quality Hits From Lansing, a new 24 track compilation of Lansing-area artists performing some of their favorite covers, a project that was spearheaded by acclaimed music writer Rich Tupica (of the definitive Big Star book There Was A Light fame). Lots of old friends here! It’s a little glimpse into what us creative types have been up to with a year of no shows. From the GTG family we’ve got The Plurals, Cavalcade, The Wild Honey Collective, RK Andrews (No Skull/Red Teeth), Counterpunchers (members of Narc Out The Reds), The Stick Arounds, Isaac Richmond Vander Schuur (The Hat Madder), Jennifer Toms (Scary Women), and Disappointed Dad, plus lots of old friends throughout like Crystal Drive, Frontier Ruckus, Dylan Rogers, Rodeo Boys, Nonbinary, La La Delivery and plenty more! 24 tracks! Free download!
Here’s what Rich had to say about the project:
“This Must Be the Place: Quality Hits from Lansing is a totally free download of Lansing, Michigan bands performing select songs by artists they love. This is meant to serve as a fun stop-gap between now and the (eventual) return of live shows. So, please: Listen. Download. Repeat. There’s a wide range of covers here because each band/artist chose whichever song they wanted for this collection. The reason? Every band has a good cover in them—perhaps one they’ve always wanted to tackle, but never had a proper reason to. So, the “art of the cover” was fully realized here. With no limitations, it left the tracklist up to them and it made for a bizarre, yet somehow cohesive blend of genres.
Aside from a long roster of area fixtures Like Frontier Ruckus, Cavalcade, Rodeo Boys, The Plurals, Wally Pleasant (and many more!), there’s also new solo tracks and fresh side projects featured here from Lansing vets: RK Andrews (of No Skull, Red Teeth), Jennifer Toms (of Scary Women), Counterpunchers (members of Narc Out the Reds), Dylan Rogers (L.U.V.S), Isaac Richmond Vander Schuur (The Hat Madder), Seth + Modern Sadness (features Seth Rentfrow of Way to Fall, Kyle Daniel), Myron James (Edible Intention), and The Wild Honey Collective (a new GTG super group). Scroll through the selection, and you’ll see plenty of familiar names. Enjoy!”
Holy smokes, has it been a year?!?? Just over a year ago as the stay-at-home order was issued in Michigan we started doing daily videos of GTG family and friends in quarantine. Weird times, but the solidarity experienced was a pretty awesome thing to take in, though we’re not quite ready to start getting pandemic nostalgia. Here’s a playlist of Staying Home With GTG Records from spring 2020, and there are a few more on the GTG facebook that never got uploaded to youtube. Glad we’re all still here!
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