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The Plurals “Swish” Record Release Party Tonight!
Posted in Album, Swish, The Plurals
Tagged clowns, Lansing, party, Swish, The Avenue Cafe, The Plurals
Stoopfest 2017!
Stoopfest 2017 is this Saturday April 22nd! The second annual edition of this Lansing DIY fest takes place at 6 house venues as well as The Avenue Cafe. The Plurals, Narc Out the Reds, and Frank and Earnest are all playing this year as well as many other local and national independent musicians. Great stuff! Check out the schedule below and the event page for updates as things get closer to the fest.
Posted in Frank and Earnest, Live, Narc Out the Reds, The Plurals
Tagged Awesome, DIY, Lansing, party, Punk, Rad, stoopfest, The Avenue Cafe
Tommy Plural Solo Album Out This Week
This week will see the release of the first official solo album from Tommy Plural entitled “Idiot Cousin.” The person that updates this website is said Tommy Plural so I’m going to cut the third person crap and get to the point! I played all the instruments on this album and while I’ve done a couple shorter, more experimental releases as a solo studio project this is the first time I made a focused effort to create a collection of songs that are meant to hang together. And in general I spent more time on this, to the point where I worried briefly that I had fucked up my hand from trying to play beyond my meager drumming abilities. Dangerous! Here’s a song from the album called “Düdes” that tackles earth-shattering topics like hating to go to work and loving the music of Hüsker Dü.
Anyway, the project is still very much supplemental to my band work but I will be using this album as the starting point for a catalog of songs to do with various musician friends, hopefully with a tour down the line. This Saturday I’ll be performing songs from the album with a much-more-talented-than-me-solo lineup of Dave and James from Small Parks and longtime friend but first time collaborator Adam Aymor, so head over to GTG House THIS SATURDAY (April 8th) to check that out. This house show is the release party for the record and also the debut of Ryan Andrews (Red Teeth) new band No Skull, the first Lansing area show by New Jersey indie-punks Alpha Rabbit, and the return of Tim and Dim from Honah Lee! It’s GTG wild card night baby!
Posted in Album, Tommy Plural
Tagged 2017, 2017 Record Subscription, Alpha Rabbit, Banana, Cheap Girls, Fuck Yeah, GTG House, Honah Lee, idiot cousin, No Skull, party, Red Teeth, Small Parks
Let’s Get Some Color In Here!
More info next week! Release party event here!
Posted in Album, GTG House Shows, GTG Records, Tommy Plural
Tagged idiot cousin, party, Tommy Plural
The Hunky Newcomers – Harder Dude Stuff (GTG093) Out TODAY
The first GTG release of 2017 (one of at least 12!) is out today, The Hunky Newcomers live album Harder Dude Stuff. In their first release in three years, the most loveable dirtbags in Lansing burn through 14 songs from all of their releases, louder, faster, and harder than the records we all know by heart. Recorded last year at a rowdy night at Lansing institution Mac’s Bar, Harder Dude Stuff delivers the goods! Out today digitally and on CD, check it out below as well as a new lyric video for “Gimme A Shot.” Let’s make the New Year happy!
Posted in Album, GTG Records, The Hunky Newcomers
Tagged Beer, Best Album of 2017, DIY, Gimme A Shot, Harder Dude Stuff, Lansing, Mac's Bar, party, pointless, Premiere, Punk, rant, Stupid
GTG092: Bermuda Snohawk 2016 Out Now!
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
Punksgiving 11/25/16!
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
YES! (GTG Fest / Small Parks/ The Stick Arounds)
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
GTG Fest 2016 Schedule!
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
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