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
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
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!
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!”
Posted in Album, Cavalcade, Disappointed Dad, GTG Activity, Lansing, Narc Out the Reds, No Skull, Red Teeth, The Hat Madder, The Plurals, The Stick Arounds, The Wild Honey Collective
Tagged Cavalcade, Conspicuous Bystanders, Crystal Drive, Frontier Ruckus, Indie Folk, Indie Rock, Lansing, Lansing Music Scene, Michigan Music, Monte Pride, Punk, Quality Dairy, Rodeo Boys, Scary Women, Silktail, The Plurals, The Wild Honey Collective, Wally Pleasant
Cavalcade’s Sonic Euthanasia LP is now available to order from GTG! A 12 song lesson in experimental and unique sludge. Tasty! Will ship out later this month!
Posted in Cavalcade
Tagged Bermuda Mohawk Productions, Cavalcade, Craig Horky drew an eye, Hot, Lansing, Sonic Euthanasia
GTG’s history with Michigan experimental band Cavalcade stretches back to pretty much the very beginning of the label. The main players of our friend label Bermuda Mohawk Productions are at the core of the band, and they’ve been consistently cranking out honest-to-goodness unique music since the mid-2000s that everyone at GTG has had the pleasure to witness. Along the way they’ve done tribute performances to the Donnie Darko soundtrack, had a bizarre stint as an artist on Phil Anselmo’s Housecore Records that included a stint touring as opener for Down, many US tours, and an appearance on nearly every Bermuda Snohawk compilation, but they’ve yet to actual partner with GTG for a release. That all changes on May 3rd when their 5th album Sonic Euthanasia hits the ear-holes of the world. These guys keep getting better and better – the guitars are sludgier, the sound effects are more head-spinnning than ever, the spacey moments are more far-out… basically this album totally delivers the goods. Check out “Here and Now” below and click on the player to pre-order the album at their bandcamp. They’ve also got an insane release party at Mac’s Bar in Lansing on May 3rd so we’ll see ya there! Welcome to the family, at long last, Cavalcade!
Let the shining rays of brilliance shine! Bermuda Snohawk 2016 has arrived, the GTG/ Bermuda Mohawk annual holiday gift (in its 11th edition!) of wintry-yuletide-seasonal joy and disaffection – a stocking stuffer of love and depravity! Up for free download via BMP, check out new and unreleased tunes from City Mouse, Cavalcade, The Plurals, Frank and Earnest, Scary Women, The Hunky Newcomers, Sleeping Timmy, middleman, Dale J Gordon, Bluffing the Ghosts, and MORE, including the various side projects featuring folks from all over the geographical map and musical (and non-musical) realm. This comp has become something of a Lansing-based DIY institution (for better or worse) and it just sort of comes together by itself at this point, with GTG and BMP just sort of lighting the path a bit. With how 2016 has been as a year, there’s a bit more darkness lurking at the edges of a lot of these tracks, but still plenty to laugh about all the way. Putting this comp together is always a highlight of the year for us, and there can be something very cathartic about just having some fun and making music with abandon. Thanks to everyone who joined in to help make it happen this year, and anyone that didn’t but wants to in the future, come on over! There’s literally no process to curating the lineup than people sending stuff to us so it’s a free-for-all, all-is-welcome party. Enjoy yourselves, and let’s hold ourselves up, together, for the last week of this gut-punching year. Much love from GTG and BMP!
Posted in Bermuda Snohawk, Frank and Earnest, GTG Records, The Hunky Newcomers, The Plurals
Tagged Awesome, Bermuda Mohawk, Cabin Fever, California, Cavalcade, City Mouse, Dale J Gordon, Frank and Earnest, Fucking Awesome, Lansing, middleman, Nashville, party, Punk, Scary Women, Sleeping Timmy, The Hunky Newcomers, The Plurals
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