Laziness, A New Music Venue For G.R. and... STUFF.

Wow, have I gotten lazy on this. Anyway, Grand Rapids has gained a superb mid-sized music venue called The Pyramid Scheme. There's a separate front bar lounge with pinball, a jukebox and a good amount of seating. The back venue area can be summed up in one sentence; Not a bad seat in the house. The entire place is aesthetically pleasing and there are fair prices on beverages for those who may wish to partake. All the way around, this place hit the nail on the head and I can only imagine what lies in store for Grand Rapids' music fans.

Bars Of Gold at The Pyramid Scheme

Paucity at The Pyramid Scheme

A view from the stage of the Pyramid Scheme's live room after the first night's show featuring Charles The Osprey and Chance Jones.

Expunk played a show called Trip The Light at the Wealthy Theater along with some fantastic musical acts and superb dancers. The dancers performed choreographed works to local musicians' works and it couldn't have gone any better. There were no cameras allowed as it was dubbed "Trip The Light Ephemeral." You had to be there to see it and I think that made the event that much more special. I did nab a picture or two of Ghost Heart during the previous weekend's rehearsal, but that's about it. What a night! In other expunk related news, we will be going in to Cold War Studios with Rick Johnson sometime this summer to record our next effort in the wonderful world of noise.

Ghost Heart rehearsing for "Trip The Light Ephemeral" at the Wealthy Theater

Heavier Than Air Flying Machines have a new album finished and it sounds great! We're really excited about its release especially since we have officially been picked up by Friction Records! We have a couple of shows coming up before the album release show(which will be at The Pyramid Scheme), and the artwork and everything is coming along great. The album release show will be in the beginning of August.

Another group that I play in by the name of Trophy will begin recording in early June for an EP. We are planning on doing everything live much like in the good ol' days. What you hear is what you get. This will probably be done over at Cold War Studios as well.

Chance Jones has been getting the scratch drum tracks down for our next record which will be titled "Us." I'm really eager to get working on this album as it'll be full of some great tunes.

That should be it for now. I will be doing my best to keep up with this here local journal much better than I have been. Life is good!