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GTG Sessions – Smashing Blumkins
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Tagged crust, Election 2016, Friday the 13th, GTG Sessions, Smashing Blumkins
GTG Sessions – Episode 12 – Little American Champ
Let’s get April moving right with the latest GTG Session starring Little American Champ. Little American Champ are a Lansing-based group that we’ve collectively been playing shows with since 2010 or something. They’ve played all of our spaces and multiple GTG Fests, and in fact just held their record release party at GTG House at the end of March. Their debut LP is out now via Save Your Generation Records, and you can hear live versions of 3 of the songs from it at this very session. Hooray!
GTG Sessions – The Hat Madder
GTG Sessions returns with a four song burner from The Hat Madder. Check out this fantastic mini-set in the video and then look below for their tour dates!
The Hat Madder Tour Dates:
* = w/ When Particles Collide
3/8 Canton, OH @ Buzzbin w/ Johnny Niemann *
3/9 Kent, OH @ Stone Tavern w/ Pocket Vinyl, Deep Holler
3/10 Hamilton, OH @ Tapout Sports Bar 3/10 Hamilton, OH @ Tapout Sports Bar w/ Mad Anthony, Rhythm & Booze *
3/11 Lexington, KY @ Green Lantern w/ Mad Anthony *
3/12 Newport, KY @ Southgate House Revival w/ Mad Anthony *
3/13 Milwaukee, WI @ Frank’s Power Plant w/ Monotaur *
3/15 Ypsilanti, MI @ Crossroads *
3/16 Saginaw, MI @ Counter Culture w/ The Mongrels, SixGunn El Dorado *
3/17 Lansing, MI @ The Avenue w/ Red Teeth, Ian Graham *
3/18 Toronto, ON @ Cherry Cola’s w/ The Shanks *
3/19 Buffalo, NY @ Mohawk Place w/ Me N You, Soul Butchers, Slow Mutants
3/20 Mono, ON @ The Tractor Shop w/The Shanks
Posted in GTG Sessions, Live, Music Video, The Hat Madder, Tour
Tagged crazy shirtless guy, GTG Sessions, Live, The Hat Madder
Happy Dickety-Sixteen
In case you’re just blacking in, six days ago we began a 366 day (for real) cycle that shall be labelled as “2016.” In addition to celebrating the birth of Leap Day William, this year also promises plenty of exciting releases from GTG Records. Red Teeth will be making their label debut with the Light Bender 7-inch, which is at the pressing plant with an early spring release targeted. The Narc Out the Reds 10″ is mastered, the next Hat Madder record is approaching the mixing stage (and the band will be touring the east coast and midwest with When Particles Collide in March), the new Sleeping Timmy-fronted project Carm’s debut is in the tracking stage, and the Plurals just booked studio time (and a tour of the southeast) in late March for a fourth album. Honah Lee will also be hitting the studio in the spring, but first they’ll be doing some midwest tour dates. Plenty to look forward to! We also have some really cool split releases to announce and a few more things in the works so get those turntables warming up! Is that a thing? You probably don’t want to burn out the belts on those things now that I think about it. Clean your ears… yeah, that’ll do.
But before we get too future-fixated, let’s take a look back on the previous year. We released three albums in 2015:
Honah Lee – 33 On 45 – 12″ LP of 10 catchy as hell punky rock and roll anthems. Reviews earned them comparisons to Superchunk, Lemonheads, Weezer, and more and they put in some serious road time on the east coast and in the midwest, including festival appearances at Death to False Hope Fest and GTG Fest. The LP gained enough traction that Creep Records in Philadelphia took on pressing up a CD version as well.
The Plurals – An Onion Tied To My Belt – 12″ LP and CD of 12 Plurals-like Plurals songs that we had the pleasure to co-release with Florida’s Infintesmal Records and Arizona’s Diet Pop Records. Tommy Plural is the one writing this update and clearly I’m too close to this record to objectively judge it but we did some coast-to-coast touring with it and people at keyboards (not to assume too much of anyone else’s process) compared it to the Replacements, Husker Du, early 90s DC noise, late 80s SST, and more. And to me it’s a (non) reflection of the style of the time.
Dreadpool Parker – self titled – CD featuring 11 tracks from New Jersey rap crew consisting of MCs Wade Wilson and Raymond Strife with Dready Mercury making the beats. We go way back with Ray (Nich Plural has potentially the best “first impression” story every involving him, and I basically quit drinking to excess after a blacked-out night with him a few years ago) so when he told us that his new group was doing some touring and putting out an album this year we had to get behind it (and book them for GTG Fest). As it stands it’s not only the first rap release on our label but also just a blast of catchy, witty, and fun music that stands tall among our catalog. Can’t wait for them to tour again!
In addition to these full-length releases we also issued an archival live recording of the Hat Madder from a 2008 tour date in France, a free label sampler (and more) nonsensically called Time to Val Kilmer, a compilation of acoustic artists and recordings, and, as always, capped off the year with the strangely-becoming-a-legacy holiday compilation Bermuda Snohawk. And in addition to these additions we also, additionally, released 10 live music video recordings in the GTG Sessions series that featured, alongside plenty of GTG usual suspects, performances by Nato Coles & the Blue Diamond Band, The Devils Cut, Logan & Lucille, and Croatone. What a year, and more to come.
I thought about making it a goal to have every band I’m in put out a physical release in 2016, but this is easier said than done as I don’t think a single band I’ve ever been in has actually “broken up” but… I’m hoping for Drinking Mercury, Calliope, and Frank and Earnest to all put out some solid product this year too. Calling it!
Honah Lee GTG Sessions!!
It’s here! The latest episode of GTG Sessions featuring 6 songs from the original Trenton, NJ party machine Honah Lee!
This was taped in the middle of the GTG Fest weekend and you can see it on their faces! Grab your favorite vice of choice, click play on the video above, and join the party. And check out their new record if you haven’t yet!
Posted in GTG Sessions, Honah Lee, Live
Tagged Best Album of 2015, goot times, GTG House, GTG Sessions, Honah Lee, Live
GTG Sessions – Logan and Lucille
Mildly belated, but GTG Sessions returns on this fine first of October with the music of Logan & Lucille from Tucson, AZ! These two also run our friend label Diet Pop Records, so check ’em out, they’re good people!!
GTG Sessions – Nato Coles & the Blue Diamond Band – Episode 8
This one’s a doozy! The great Minneapolis Rock and Roll outfit (and it definitely is capital “R” Rock!) Nato Coles & the Blue Diamond Band came through Lansing earlier this summer on tour and we were able to snag them for a barn-burner of a GTG Session. Check out three tunes, including a Mynah Birds (the pre-fame band of Rick James and Neil Young!) cover, in the video below, as well as Nato and the boys’ tour dates here!
Posted in GTG Sessions, Live
Tagged Devils Farting, GTG Sessions, Live, Minneapolis, Nato Coles and the Blue Diamond Band, Neil Young, Rick James
The Plurals – On Tour Now!
Midwest, southwest, west coast – The Plurals are coming! Touring behind the new LP An Onion Tied To My Belt, check out the dates below and stay tuned to facebook for more updates! Also check out the latest episode of GTG Sessions featuring The Plurals below the dates!
7/19 – Omaha, NE @ Lucy’s
7/20 – Fort Collins, CO @ GNU/ Downtown Artery
7/21 – Denver, CO @ Orange Grove
7/22 – Albuquerque, NM @ Duke City Sound
7/23 – Tucson, AZ @ La Cocina w/ Logan and Lucille
7/24 – Phoenix, AZ (Mesa) @ The Underground
7/25 – Long Beach, CA @ New Sparrow Nest
7/26 – Los Angeles, CA (afternoon) @ Redwood w/ Gentlemen Prefer Blood
7/26 – Anaheim, CA (evening) @ The Doll Hut w/ Black Sparrow Press, Secondaries
7/28 – San Diego, CA @ Tower Bar w/ Bertos
7/29 – Atascadero, CA @ Comozzi’s w/ Off Center and the Holes
7/31 – Oakland, CA @ The Night Light
8/1 – Eugene, OR @ Wandering Goat
8/2 – Portland, OR @ The Know
8/3 – Portland, OR @ Twilight Cafe
8/4 – Seattle, WA @ Kraken w/ Margate
8/5 – Spokane, WA @ Baby Bar
8/6 – Missoula, MT @ Ole Beck VFW
8/7 – Billings, MT @ Richard Dreyest
8/8 – Minot, ND @ Why Not Fest
8/9 – Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock Social Club
8/10 – Madison, WI @ The Vault
8/11 – Milwaukee, WI @ Quarters
8/12 – Rockford, IL @ Kryptonite
8/13 – Chicago, IL @ Fizz Bar
Posted in GTG Sessions, The Plurals, Tour
Tagged An Onion Tied To My Belt, GTG Sessions, Live, Summer 2015, The Plurals, Tour Dates
GTG Sessions – Episode 6 – Croatone
In the sixth episode of GTG Sessions, heavy Lansing instrumental heavyweights Croatone nearly crush the GTG space to rubble with their ear crushing sounds. Check it out!
Posted in Croatone, GTG Sessions, Live
Tagged Croatone, GTG House, GTG Sessions, Heavy
GTG Sessions Episode 5 – The Hunky Newcomers
The boys are back! Enjoy ramblings + music from the Hunky Newcomers in the latest episode of GTG Sessions!
Posted in GTG Sessions, Live, The Hunky Newcomers
Tagged Beer, GTG House, GTG Records, GTG Sessions, Live, Pop-punk, Stupid, The Hunky Newcomers
GTG RECORDS 