Category Archives: The Stick Arounds

April 2017!! Lansing shows! Mini-Honah Lee Mini-Tour! Stoopfest!! More!!

Posted on April 6, 2017 | Leave a comment

Lots of great shows in Lansing this month!

Here’s a list of every GTG related show happening around the US this month, got some tour dates from a duo lineup of Honah Lee, plus the first road dates from Dim’s new band Alpha Rabbit. One of those dates is the Tommy Plural CD release!

4/6 – Tim & Dim (Honah Lee) w/ Alpha Rabbit @ Mill Hill Basement (Trenton, NJ)

4/7 – Tim & Dim (Honah Lee) w/ Alpha Rabbit @ 123 Pleasant St (Morgantown, WV)

4/7 – Small Parks @ The Avenue Cafe (Lansing, MI)

4/8 – Tim & Dim (Honah Lee) w/ Alpha Rabbit @ GTG House – TOMMY PLURAL CD RELEASE PARTY!

4/8 – The Stick Arounds @ New Dodge Lounge (Hamtramck, MI)

4/9 – Tim & Dim (Honah Lee) w/ Alpha Rabbit @ Northside Yacht Club (Cincinnati, OH)

4/11 – The Hat Madder @ Trumbellplex (Detroit, MI)

4/12 – The Plurals @ The Workshop (Grand Rapids, MI)

4/13 – The Plurals @ The Sanctuary (Detroit, MI)

4/14 – The Plurals @ The Avenue Cafe (Lansing, MI)

4/20 – Narc Out the Reds @ Mulligan’s Pub (Grand Rapids, MI)

4/21 – Narc Out the Reds @ Quality Beet (Michigan City, IN)

4/22 – STOOPFEST 2017 (Lansing)

4/23 – The Hat Madder @ The Green Door (Lansing, MI)

4/25 – GTG House Show w/ Disappointed Dad, Fever Hands, Blaine

4/26 – The Hat Madder @ The Fledge (Grand Ledge, MI)

Stoopfest is gonna be sick too!

Whoo!!

Leave a comment

Posted in Frank and Earnest, GTG House Shows, GTG Records, Honah Lee, Narc Out the Reds, Small Parks, The Plurals, The Stick Arounds, Tommy Plural, Tour

Tagged 2017, April, DIY, Lansing, Punk, Sweet

New Narc Out!!! Whaaa!?!?!??

Posted on November 4, 2016 | Leave a comment

narc-out-2016

Narc Out the Reds have a new release coming! The release party is TOMORROW November 5th at Mac’s Bar in Lansing. Check out this City Pulse article for media validation! The record will be available next week! Its a 10-inch! I don’t even own any 10-inches, much less have had any part in releasing them before so this is super awesome!! The show is going to be a fantastic time, check out the event page here. YEAH!!

Leave a comment

Posted in Album, GTG Records, The Stick Arounds

Tagged Best Album of 2016, Fucking Awesome, Lansing

Hey! Check Out The Stick Arounds!

Posted on October 21, 2016 | Leave a comment

stick-arounds-live

Formed in 2009, The Stick Arounds – consisting of members of old-school Lansing powerhouses Calliope, the Pantones, and Gentleman Callers – take you to a sonic neighborhood where garage rock, Byrds-esque pop, Guided By Voices-inspired abandon, and classic rock all happily live together. A mainstay of mid-Michigan dive bars, when the time came to make an album the band decided to eschew conventions and record where they felt most comfortable: in front of a live audience. The project that followed ended up becoming a labor of love for the GTG family as the venue for the live recording was the now-defunct but much beloved GTG-operated DIY/ warehouse venue The Mystery Garage and the recording and mixing engineer was the Hat Madder’s Isaac Vander Schuur. The album, appropriately titled Mystery Garage, captures the essence of the band and documents a place and time, as all great live albums are meant to. Check out the album for 12 songs of tightly crafted rock and roll songs with a chiming, three guitar attack to complement the impressive group vocal efforts – best enjoyed cranked up with the windows down. Order the LP here or stream it on Spotify!

Official Website
Facebook

Leave a comment

Posted in Album, GTG Records, Mystery Garage, The Stick Arounds

Tagged Best Album of 2016, Lansing, Mystery Garage, The Stick Arounds, Whiskey

YES! (GTG Fest / Small Parks/ The Stick Arounds)

Posted on October 11, 2016 | Leave a comment

GTG Fest 2016: SUCCESS! Soooooo many good times. Thanks so much to The Avenue Cafe, all the raffle donors, the attendees, the bands, the city of Lansing… everyone! GTG Fest 2016 was the biggest year yet for us and we can’t wait to see what the future holds! Even if right now we’re all still nursing our sore bodies and unraveled minds! That’s how you know it’s a fest weekend!

This weekend was also really important to us because we released two new LPs and in the process had two more bands join our family! Small Parks released their debut LP “Honest Light” on vinyl (it came out digitally in the spring but now it’s a for-real real record!) Friday night, with The Stick Arounds following suit with the release of their debut (recorded live at the much beloved and missed Mystery Garage) LP “Mystery Garage” on Saturday night. Two different perspectives of the Michigan DIY community, many styles and sounds, and all good, honest pure-GTG Records goodness. You can order ’em at our store right now!

Expect further updates on these two great bands and more info on their records in the coming days. It was a great weekend and there’s still so much to take in! Good times.

timmy-gtg-fest