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The Wild Honey Collective – LIVE out now!

The Wild Honey Collective issued its debut album on January 1st, 2021, and now 5 years later the band’s Live double album arrives on streaming! Pre-order the 2-LP edition, coming this spring!

Live video edited by Dan Jaquint

Live was recorded (by Isaac Vander Schuur of The Hat Madder et al) primarily at a February 2025 concert at The Robin Theatre in Lansing, Michigan. This was a memorable evening in front of a sold-out, energetic and attentive crowd and the band rose to the occasion, delivering a show featuring highlights from the band’s recorded catalog as well as favorite covers by Buck Owens, Bob Dylan, Hank Williams, and more. The album is supplemented by a four song acoustic performance that was recorded in front of an invited audience at The Avenue Cafe in June 2025. Since Wild Honey started as a loose quarantine-era recording project, many of the band’s songs have taken on a different shape as they’ve entered the live arena and expanded as a full band. Live serves as a sort of “best of” the first 5 years of the band and is also an attempt to document new “definitive” versions of several of the songs. The result is a 20 song double album featuring a range of bouncy country rock, haunting folk ballads, psychedelic excursions, and harmony singing a’ plenty. It’s been a prolific and exciting run for this band so far (3 LPs, 4 EPs, a double live album, a handful of compilation appearances, and over 250 shows), here’s the future!

GTG Fest 2025 – Oct 17/18/19!

The 18th annual GTG Fest is coming to The Avenue Cafe in Lansing, Oct 17-19!

FRIDAY OCTOBER 17 @ 8 PM (21+)

Narc Out the Reds
Ladyship Warship
Small Parks
Braineaters (Lansing all-star Misfits set!)
Mr Denton on Doomsday
No Skull
The Plurals
… and more!

SATURDAY OCTOBER 18 @ 8 PM (21+)

Hardigrade
Brian Lisik
La La Delivery
A Rueful Noise
Jeremy Porter
The Wild Honey Collective
Dead Honey Collective
… and more!

SUNDAY OCTOBER 19 @ 5 PM (all ages)

The Plurals (again!)
Tequila Mockingbird
The Stick Arounds (acoustic)
Livewire … and more (maybe?)!

StoopFest 2025

StoopFest is back in Lansing this weekend! May 9&10!

GTG Fest / Punks Vs Pokes 2024

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!

The Wild Honey Collective Volume 3 LP

The Wild Honey Collective Volume 3 is now streaming everywhere. LP/CD available too!

“This is an album that can provide a smile.” – Rock The Joint UK

“A collection of enjoyable songs and is just solid good music. The band combines a high level of enthusiasm with some dreamy playing.” – Americana Highways

See you at the release shows! Grand Rapids 5/31 and Lansing 6/2!

A Rueful Noise – Ashen Glow LP

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:

Wild Honey Volume 3 Pre-Order

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!

A Rueful Noise Single Out Now

From the band socials:
The first single from our full length album, The Ashen Glow, is live on Bandcamp. The album will be released in the spring on GTG Records and Silver Maple Kill Records. Thank you so much for everyone’s support.

The track was recorded and engineered by the amazing Jason Roedel and mastered by Jim Diamond. The beautiful album art was created by Peter Richards.
Next up for A Rueful Noise is an acoustic set at The Avenue Cafe in Lansing – 7:30 PM on Sunday March 10, w/ Joshua Barton!

As 2023 wraps up…

Get into the wintery mood with last year’s Bermuda Snowhawk!

The 2023 edition will be shoved in some sort of stocking around the 21st!

December has the following happenings, uh, happening:
12/9 – The Wild Honey Collective @ Horrocks Farm Market (Lansing, MI) 2 PM Show!
12/9 – A Rueful Noise @ Displaced Manor (Lansing)
12/10 – Wilderhoney (Trio) @ Stober’s (Lansing)
12/14 – Wilderhoney (Duo) @ Horrocks (Lansing) 5 PM Show
12/15 – No Skull @ Mac’s (Lansing)
12/15 – Erotic Novels @ Crossroads (Garwood, NJ)
12/22 – Narc Out The Reds @ Mulligan’s (Grand Rapids, MI)
12/22 – Wilderhoney (Duo) @ Peanut Barrel (East Lansing)
12/28 – The Wild Honey Collective @ Horrocks Market (Grand Rapids) 6 PM Show
12/29 – The Wild Honey Collective @ Confluxcity Brewing (Portland, MI)
12/31 – GTG NYE Party Band @ The Avenue (Lansing)’

Plenty of Wild Honey+Wilderhoney in there, per usual, which will continue to be a regular occurence in 2024 with a full-length and at least 2 collaborative EPs heading for release (plus tours, festivals etc etc). No Skull vinyl is a thing that exists so a release of their full-length will be announced very soon, and A Rueful Noise, Jeremy Porter, and Narc Out The Reds are all in advanced studio stages themselves. Keep ’em comin!

GTG Fest 2023

GTG Records’ 16th annual celebration of live music, independent art, culture, community and Lansing – October 20-22, 2023! GTG Fest 2023 on Facebook

Friday October 20 @ The Avenue Cafe –
Punks vs Pokes! 9 PM / $5 / 21+

9-9:30 Kindness, Texas
9:30-10 Flatfoot
10-10:30 Mileage
10:30-11 Cold Mountain Child
11-11:30 The Hunky Newcomers
11:30-12 Jeff Gower
12-12:30 No Skull
12:30 Wild Honey Collective

Saturday October 21 @ The Avenue Cafe
9 PM / $5 / 21+

9-9:30 Mad Moon
9:30-10 Nonbinary
10-10:30 Dale J Gordon
10:30-11 Ambrosia Blue
11-11:30 Narc Out The Reds
11:30-12 Lemoncollies
12-12:20 Blaine & His Keyboard
12:20 The Plurals / GTG Party Band

Sunday October 22 – Parachute Party Potluck @ Hunter Park! 2 PM / All Ages

A Rueful Noise Acoustic, Plurals Acoustic, Open Mic, more!