More updates about 2017 plans to come but in the meantime, there’s a free show at The Avenue Cafe in Lansing on Friday 11/25 that The Plurals are playing. GTG Records isn’t really the type of operation to engage in Black Friday so, hey, come out and enjoy a free show and be around good people. Party on!
Posted in The Plurals
Tagged crazy shirtless guy, Fucking Awesome, Lansing, party, Punk, The Avenue Cafe
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!!
Posted in Album, GTG Records, The Stick Arounds
Tagged Best Album of 2016, Fucking Awesome, Lansing
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!
Posted in Album, GTG Records, Mystery Garage, The Stick Arounds
Tagged Best Album of 2016, Lansing, Mystery Garage, The Stick Arounds, Whiskey
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.
Posted in GTG Fest, GTG House Shows, GTG Records, Small Parks, The Stick Arounds
Tagged 2016, Awesome, DIY, Fucking Awesome, GTG Fest, GTG House, Lansing, party, The Avenue Cafe
Hey! It’s almost here!
GTG Fest 2016! Three days of the best independent music in the Michigan area (and beyond!)
OCTOBER 7 + 8 at The Avenue Cafe
OCTOBER 9 at GTG House
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Friday 10/7 @ The Avenue Cafe. Doors @ 7 PM/ $7 Cover
8:00 Tidal
8:30 Rent Strike (set 1)
8:45 Birdhouse
9:15 Rent Strike (set 2)
9:30 Narc Out the Reds
10:00 Charlie Darling (set 1)
10:15 Jeremy Porter & the Tucos
10:45 Charlie Darling (set 2)
11:00 The Hat Madder
11:30 Drinking Mercury
12:00 Bong Mountain
12:45 Small Parks (LP release!)
Saturday 10/8 @ The Avenue Cafe. Doors @ 7 PM / $7 Cover
8:00 Flatfoot
8:30 Bat Yulefly
8:45 Matt Wixson’s Flying Circus
9:15 Elroy Meltzer
9:45 LVRS
10:15 Indonesian Junk
10:45 Jake Simmons & the Little Ghosts
11:15 Tens
11:45 The Stick Arounds (LP release!)
12:15 Two Houses
12:45 The Plurals
Sunday 10/9 @ GTG House. Pre-Party @ 3 PM / $7 Donation
3:00-5:00 Eat Food and Hangout
5:00-6:30 OPEN MIC
6:30 Phillips Talking Apple Tree
7:00 Tall and Blonde
7:45 Carm
8:30 Dasterds
9:15 Frank And Earnest
10:00 Handwringer
10:45 City Mouse
11:30 Everybody Loves Ramones
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Standard 3 Day Pass Now Available here! Cheaper than the door!
Please be respectful and cool to all attendees and to all of the spaces. No hate. We’re all in this together.
Posted in Bong Mountain, Carm, Drinking Mercury, Frank and Earnest, GTG Fest, Narc Out the Reds, The Hat Madder, The Hunky Newcomers, The Plurals
Tagged 2016, Avenue Cafe, Awesome, Beer, DIY, GTG Fest, GTG House, Lansing, party, Punk, rant, Shows, Stupid, Whiskey
GTG Fest 2016 is coming! October 7, 8, and 9 in Lansing. Check out a sampler of the artists playing at that thing up there. There’s a few new and unreleased things from GTG bands Carm, Drinking Mercury, The Plurals, Hat Madder and Hunky Newcomers (AKA Everybody Loves Ramones) on there in addition to a bunch of other solid jams. And follow this link for more info and to get a dank pre-sale package. Good times… coming soon!
GTG Fest may still be four months away, but a summer fest in the same spirt called Fledge Fest is this weekend in Grand Ledge, MI! Music from noon to midnight on Saturday June 18th featuring The Plurals, the Hunky Newcomers, Frank and Earnest, Carm, Cavalcade, Jason Alarm, Blaine and His Keyboard, Devils Cut and many more! Check out the schedule below, as well as a free sampler of some of the bands playing. More info can be found here! Thanks to Andy Fox, Jerry Norris, and everyone at The Fledge for making this happen!
BRIDGE STREET PLAZA STAGE LINEUP (213 S Bridge St, Grand Ledge, MI 48837)
Off The Ledge
12pm-12:30pm
Sumarah
12:40pm-1:10pm
Stop Bobby Hatch!
1:20pm-1:50pm
Scary Women
2.00pm-2:30pm
Carm
2:40pm-3:10pm
Worn Spirit
3:20pm-3:50pm
Jason Alarm
4pm-4:30pm
Jake Simmons & the Little Ghosts
4:40pm-5:10pm
Cavalcade
5:20pm-5:50pm
Frank and Earnest
6:10pm-7pm
THE FLEDGE STAGE LINEUP (325 S Clinton St, Grand Ledge, MI 48837)
Blaine and His Keyboard
5:30pm-6pm
Doctor Magnum
6:10pm-6:40pm
The Meat Flowers
6:50pm:7:20pm
The Hunky Newcomers
7:30pm-8pm
COMEDY @ THE FLEDGE
8:10pm-9:10pm
Brandon Bonebrakee
Taylor De La Ossa!
Cole Tunningley
Nicki Wrightt
Sonny Pandit
AFTER PARTY @ THE FLEDGE
Tidal
9:20pm-9:50pm
Ribcage
10pm-10:30pm
Bike Tuff
10:40pm-11:10pm
The Devil’s Cut
11:20-11:55pm
The Plurals
12:10pm-?
Posted in Frank and Earnest, GTG Fest, Jason Alarm, Live, The Devil's Cut, The Hunky Newcomers, The Plurals
Tagged Fest, Fledge Fest, Grand Ledge, Lansing, summer 2016
Jeremy Porter & The Tucos brought their Detroit-made powerpop n’ roll to GTG House when they were touring with the Plurals earlier this spring and we’re happy to kick off the summer-ish time by releasing the latest episode of GTG Sessions, featuring four tunes by this power trio. Check out more of their music and tour dates here.
Posted in GTG Sessions, Live, Music Video
Tagged Detroit, GTG House, GTG Records, Jeremy Porter, Lansing, Live, The Tucos
You can finally order the new Junior Battles/ Bong Mountain split cassette from us! Only 75 of these suckers were made so hurry up, they won’t last long! Bong Mountain just wrapped up a Canadian and east coast tour but will be playing in Flint this weekend at Vehicle City Fest alongside The Plurals, Frank and Earnest, The Hunky Newcomers, City Mouse and a bunch of other cool artists including Sean Bonnette, Worship This!, Signals Midwest and oh so many more.
Junior Battles are, as always, sweet, kind, perfect gentlemen. Now here’s a picture of Tommy Plural’s dog with Sparty!
Current events for the GTG family in Lansing, MI this May. Thanks as always to Corey Marie for the sweet flyer-age.
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