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!
The Tucos are closing out their busy fall with a great hometown show at PJ’s Lager House on December 4. This will also be the final show for bassist Bob but the Tucos show ain’t slowin’ down – we’re already talking about 2022 releases and, of course, touring.
Bonus show – The Stick Arounds will be playing 4 sets at Horrocks Beer Garden on December 4 as well. Plenty of chances to get your powerpop in the mitten this weekend!
Lots of great events at our home base of The Avenue this month. Thursday November 4th features GTG family Mistic Mountian (Nich Plural, Blaine “And His Keyboard”), and LoLo (Pudvay, Hunky, Knights, et al), November 5th is a sticky sweet Stick Arounds night, November 12 features the first-ish show by Cutlass Supreme (Frank and Earnestish), November 24 will have a cover band of Baratonos, Plurals, Aymors ‘n such, and every weekend is chock full of a wide variety of music! Whoo!
More good stuff in September from GTG bands and friends! As always we’ve got a wide variety of stuff at The Avenue Cafe in Lansing (9/10 features The Hunky Newcomers):
Jeremy Porter has a solid solo acoustic run in the Midwest:
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!
On top of these Lansing shows, Jeremy Porter and The Tucos are making their re-debut at The Village Idiot in Maumee, OH on August 14. They actually played their last pre-pandemic show at this venue back in March 2020 – Jeremy wrote a great piece about it here – so it’s extra exciting to have the Detroit rockers hitting this stage. The Tucos JUST released their new music video for “Put You On Hold,” check it out:
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!
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!
The extremely excellent new Waiting For The Click EP by The Stick Arounds features four songs, and the band has made videos for each of these songs. Check them all out below and get the EP directly from the band at bandcamp! These guys really know how to make the best out of a crummy year!
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