Spring 2026 – we’ve got StoopFest in Lansing, Jeremy Porter tour and more!
Check out Stoopfest.org for full lineup, schedule, and tickets for the best dang springtime annual indie music festival!
Rounding up – Jeremy Porter & the Tucos is officially reconstituted and hitting the road for the first time since 2024. Midwest and upstate NY dates this month, check out thetucos.com and the Jeremy socials for full info. A Rueful Noise and No Skull continue to bring (yes) noise around Michigan, with both acts approaching new studio material soon. The Wild Honey Collective is in the midst of a creative writing revival, with shows and festivals a’plenty around Michigan, stay tuned to wildhoneycollective.com for all the show info. Dead Honey Collective is also still at Moriarty’s in Lansing every month, as well as Deadhead events in the Midwest and beyond. There’s plenty more GTG in the pipeline (The Plurals, Narc Out, et al), and your humble author is still putting on live music events at The Avenue Cafe (< there’s a monthly calendar thing at that very website to keep yas informed) every Sunday and periodic Fridays and Saturdays, so come say hi! Hey!
Also Wild Honey made a video for The Band’s “Christmas Must Be Tonight” using clips from the beautiful and classic Lotte Reiniger “Star Of Bethlehem” silhouette animation from 1956. Neat!
GTG Records announces The Wild Honey Collective + Jeremy Porter Together + Separate Southeast USA 2025 Tour! Lansing, Michigan’s award winning cosmic-folk-country-rock band The Wild Honey Collective team up with Detroit’s alt-country-powerpop-rock songwriter Jeremy Porter for a run through the Midwest and Southeastern states. The shows will feature the two entities both separately and together in various incarnations, collaborating on each other’s music in a classic-country revue-style setting.
For information about times, local support, and other details, please visit our websites and the venues’ websites or reach out directly.
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
New songs from A Rueful Noise, The Plurals, Cavalcade, Jeremy Porter (alternate mix of “Colorado Christmas“) and the debut recording of The Wild Honey spinoff Dead Honey Collective – all this and more on the 18th annual Bermuda Snohawk compilation. Cheers!
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