Six Days On The Road Spring Tour 2025!
4/29 – Maumee, OH @ the village idiot maumee
4/30 – Buffalo, NY @ Nietzsche’s
5/1 – Lowell, MA @ Thirsty First Tavern
5/2 – Ellsworth, ME @ Fogtown Brewing Company
5/3 – Portland, ME @ Blue Portland Maine
5/4 – Brattleboro, VT @ Marigold Brattleboro
Tommy/Adam/Dani/Joel/Loren cosmic country quintet!
Poster: Dan Jaquint
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Tagged Americana, Americana Tour, Blue Portland, Brattleboro, Cosmic American Music, Country Rock, Ellsworth, Fogtown Brewing, GTG Records, Maine Music, Marigold Brattleboro, Michigan Music, Nietzsche's Buffalo, Portland, Six Days On The Road, Thirsty First Pub, Vermont Music, Village Idiot, Wild Honey Collective, Wild Honey Collective Tour
Jeremy Porter has solo acoustic dates (plus a couple Tucos shows) spanning Minnesota to Massachusetts this spring!
Posted in Jeremy Porter and The Tucos, Tour
Tagged Americana, Detroit Music, Dynamite Alley, Jeremy Porter, Michigan Music, Pencil Storm, Punk, Solo Acoustic, Spring 2025, The Tucos, Tour
The 5th full-length from The Plurals, originally issued as 3 EPs:
Mumblebee (May 2019, tracks 1-5)
Grumblebee (December 2019, tracks 6-9)
Stumblebee (June 2020, tracks 10-15)
Mostly recorded by Tommy at GTG House (Lansing, MI) from fall 2018-spring 2020, with final quarantine-era sessions at Chim Cham’s Cry Shack (pre-flooded basement, also the backyard) and incorporating elements recorded by Isaac Vander Schuur at Epiphany Sound (Dimondale, MI) in fall 2012, plus various GTG House archives. Songs 1-5 mixed by George Szegedy, songs 13 and 15 mixed by Eric Merckling, the rest mixed by Tommy. Mastered by Tommy at McGorgers/GTG House South in January 2025.
Tommy says (January 23, 2025):
BEES is back on streaming, remastered and presented as one release for the first time.
Our scattered 5th album is my favorite Plurals release, and in a lot of ways it sums up the whole first 20 years of this band. Its creation started in a convoluted manner (Hattie had temporarily moved across the country to start her family and Nich and I put together new songs – based around my newfound acoustic guitar passion – that they then both played drums on) and ended in a much more convoluted manner (spring 2020 plans to finish writing and recording stray ideas were, uh, permanently derailed by The Pandemic but in my possibly misguided determination I built a new studio, used everything ranging from cell phone videos and rough demo tracks to create the foundations for the last batch of songs, recorded Hattie singing outside, then the day after I mixed it the basement flooded and I took the studio down). After the pro studio Nashville excursion of Swish we went back to home recording and self production and by the end of the process Eric Merckling, Isaac Vander Schuur, and George Szegedy had a hand in the audio end and Danielle and Timmy tightened up the vocals on some songs.
We had a plan to collect the songs together after issuing them as the 3 EPs in 2019 and 2020, but there was no chance of the band touring and we had a notion that we would revise the quarantine produced songs on Stumblebee but now when we do get together we just work on new material, and the initial distro deal for the EPs expired last year, so… here it is, together! There’s a vague Fuck Trump subtext throughout it so maybe it’s fitting? Who knows?? (Nobody.) All I know is it’s a batch of tunes I made with my friends that I’m really proud of so, turn it up. xoxo
Posted in Album, GTG Records, The Plurals
Tagged BEES, Bernie 2020, Best Album of 2025, Fuck Trump, Fun, GTG Records, Lansing, Michigan Music, Music, new-music, party, Post-Fun, Punk, Punk Rock, Rock, The Plurals
GTG Fest 2024 (+ Punks Vs. Pokes!) – 10/18 & 10/19 at The Avenue Cafe
Fri 10/18 – Narc Out the Reds, No Skull, Leisure – Lansing, MI, Hardigrade, Brother Wolf, Willy Fotang, the LoLo Show
Sat 10/19 – PUNKS VS POKES w/ The Wild Honey Collective, Flatfoot, Small Parks, The Plurals, Deer & Elk (Full Band), Nunya
Let the good times roll!
Posted in GTG Activity, GTG Fest, Lansing, Narc Out the Reds, No Skull, Small Parks, The Hunky Newcomers, The Plurals, The Stick Arounds, The Wild Honey Collective
Tagged Country, DIY, Flatfoot, Fucking Awesome, Fun, GTG Fest, GTG Fest 2024, GTG Records, Lansing, Michigan Music, party, Punk, Punks Vs Pokes, The Avenue Cafe, The Plurals, Wild Honey Collective, Wow
Pre-Order the new Jeremy Porter LP and get an exclusive bonus acoustic EP!
From the brand spankin’ new jeremyportermusic.com official site:
GTG Records announces the release of Dynamite Alley, the new solo album from Jeremy Porter – the Detroit-based singer/songwriter and front-man for Jeremy Porter and the Tucos. The album is his first solo release since 2019’s 1987 EP and his first full-length solo album since Party of One (Mag Wheel Records, 2010). The album, named after a 1980 episode of the motorcycle cop-dramedy “CHiPs” (s03e23), with a nod to Rod Stewart’s second solo album Gasoline Alley, includes ten songs ranging from sparse acoustic numbers to cowpunk-rocking classics and country-rock tear-jerkers.
The album took a year and a half from the first sessions to release, after some direction changes and a busy touring schedule with The Tucos. “There were periods of great productivity, and there were periods where it sat for weeks on end. Sometimes life happens and you gotta dodge curveballs, but we got there in the end.” Porter says.
Dynamite Alley features a multitude of contributions from friends David Below (Jennifer Westwood, India Green) on drums, Jake Riley (The Tucos, Big Shoals, Matt Woods Band, The Social Workers) on upright bass, Fritz Van Kosky (The Regulars, Pete Moss & The Fungis) on electric bass and beats, Nick Raeon on banjo, Jay Gonzales (Drive-By Truckers) on piano, Wurlitzer, and organ, Doug McKeon (GC5, Bedroom Legends, Magpies) vocals, acoustic guitar, and mandolin, Chris Yohn (Boys From the County Hell) on violin/fiddle, Noreen Porter on castanets, Harry Brish on accordion, Gabriel Doman (The Tucos, The Hotwalls) on bongos, Rachel Goldsmith on cello, and Liz Fornal (The Orbitsuns on harmony/backup vocals. GTG Records label-mates, touring partners, and collaborators The Wild Honey Collective are featured prominently with Tommy McCord on mandolin, Danielle Gyger on harmonies, and Adam Aymor on pedal steel guitar.
“It’s an all-star cast! Everyone brought their A-game and elevated it way beyond anything I had planned.” Jeremy boasts. “It wasn’t always easy to wrangle everyone, but they were all very generous with their time and talent, and again, we got there in the end.”
The album was recorded primarily by Gabriel Doman (JP & The Tucos drummer/producer) at his Pharmhouse Studio in Dearborn, MI and Porter’s studio The Basement in Plymouth, MI. Tim Patalan (Sponge, The Fags) mixed it at The Loft in Saline, MI, and Dan Coutant (War on Women, Jawbox, The Sword) mastered it at SunRoom Studios in Windsor, NY.
The album will be released on limited-edition 180g vinyl, CD, and digitally on Bandcamp and all streaming platforms. Jeremy will spend the fall touring behind Dynamite Alley in a solo-acoustic setting across the midwestern and western US and Canada.
The first video from Dynamite Alley is “Big Spender,” filmed and directed by Noreen Porter in southeastern Michigan in July, 2024. The video includes several of the key players on the album and a super-cool 1998 Chevy Silverado called “The Bobcat.”
Stream the new A Rueful Noise and check ’em out live:
5/31 – Westside Bowl (Youngstown, OH)
6/1 – Government Center (Pittsburgh, PA)
6/8 – The Avenue Cafe (Lansing, MI) – Official release party!
And don’t sleep on the other Lansing shows the first week of June:
Posted in A Rueful Noise, Album, Lansing
Tagged A Rueful Noise, GTG Records, Lansing, Live Music, Michigan Music, Punk, Silver Maple Kill Records, The Avenue Cafe, Wow
Pre-Order is live for The Wild Honey Collective Volume 3, via GTG Records bandcamp. Vinyl, CD, and digital out 5/31/2024, stream “These Old Shoes” now! The band is on the road plenty this spring and we’ll be hosting release shows on May 31 at Speciation in Grand Rapids and June 2 at The Avenue in Lansing. See you there!
We’re back east soon!
4/26 – New Hope PA @ John And Peter’s
4/27 – Trenton NJ @ Millhill Basement
4/28 – Mt Holly NJ @ Stratosphere Brewing Company
4/29 – Allston MA @ Silhouette Lounge
4/30 – Brattleboro VT @ House Show
5/1 – Seabrook NH @ Red’s Kitchen & Tavern Seabrook, Nh
5/3 – Ellsworth ME @ Fogtown Brewing Company
5/4 – Portland ME @ Blue
5/5 – Syracuse NY @ House Show
We’ve got Tommy/Dani/Adam/Dan/Joel for this run, watch out! First couple dates are with Alpha Rabbit too!
Poster by Peter Richards.
Posted in The Wild Honey Collective, Tour
Tagged Alpha Rabbit, Americana Tour, Brattleboro Music, Cosmic American Music, Country Rock, East Coast Tour, Folk Rock, GTG Records, John and Peter's, Lansing, Maine Music, Michigan Music, Mill Hill Basement, New Hope PA, New Jersey Music, Stargrazer, The Wild Honey Collective, Tour, Vermont Music, Ween
Check out the new Wilderhoney EP via Bandcamp:
6 Tommy Plural arrangements, produced/mixed by Adam Aymor.
Tommy says:
Wilderhoney? Well, it’s within The Wild Honey Collective, but it’s also just Wilderhoney (wil- as in wilderness, wilderpeople, far out) – basically if the show is built around Adam and I shooting each other knowing looks and changing things on the fly then it’s Wilderhoney. We recorded 6 songs while jamming with Joel this fall and here it is! We’ll play most of it tonight at Moriarty’s / A Wild Honey Evening at Moriarty’s (1/26).
6 songs: traditionals, an original, a Jeremy Porter song, an Easy Rider The Byrds classic, and a Sonic Youth song that always deserved a Neil Young treatment. Wilderhoney Tommy/Adam/Joel trio with various vocal assists from Dani and A Rueful Noisers Nicholas and Jennifer. Check it out!
In the meantime, the full Wild Honey lineup of Tommy-Dani-Timmy-Dan-Adam-Joel is inching closer to completing the Volume 3 LP for a summer release. To get us through these slow winter moments the band has shot some videos, live-in-the-studio style, shot and edited by Dan Jaquint. Here’s “Don’t Close Your Eyes” – way more country rockin’ than the string band take found on Volume 2, but that’s what 2+ years of constant gigging will do to ya:
Posted in A Rueful Noise, GTG Activity, Jeremy Porter and The Tucos, Lansing, The Wild Honey Collective, Tommy Plural
Tagged A Rueful Noise, Cosmic American Music, Country Rock, DIY, Don't Close Your Eyes, Don't Let Your Deal Go Down, Folk Music, Folk Rock, GTG Records, Jeremy Porter, John Henry, Lansing, Michigan Music, Sonic Youth, The Byrds, The Diamond Sea, The Plurals, The Wild Honey Collective, Wasn't Born To Follow, Wilderhoney, Wow
New The Wild Honey Collective out now!
Interview about the album with Rich Tupica in City Pulse!
Free download at Bandcamp:
It’s a mystery why the big ol’ streamers are calling an instrumental song “explicit,” but rest assured the whole family can enjoy this collection of songs about UFOs, murder, drinking, boating, cosmic consciousness etc etc 
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