Y-Not

Music Designed To Inspire, Uplift, And Empower

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This Friday! @thecloverroomkzoo 3 of us from Y-Not will be performing as an acoustic sessions trio with Kate & K9 ❤️‍🔥 Listening room atmosphere, low capacity Check out the Clover Room to secure your spot!
You are the cosmic wink of countless reflections Look around at all you see Cycles and seasons, they speak with a wisdom That speaks to the moment - connecting you and me
PSA 🗣️
On new years day after our NYE show at the tip top, Chicago based @adamgottliebandonelove & @onlythemiddle came over for brunch, community and jams. Here's some of our improv jamming that manifested through our camaraderie ❤️‍🔥🎶 #improvjam #chicagomusic #grandrapidsmusic #grandrapidsmichigan #ynotplaymusic
Our drummer Adam J. Smallman (@rumblystatueprod) has been crushing it on our new single. He's taken full reign on its production and we are at the final stage of it's completion! Expect an update on a release date soon! Photo by @e.zittel
What an incredible New Year's Eve! An evening of intention for where we stand in our personal lives and as a collective in society. Adam Gottlieb & OneLove and Only the Middle graced us with a wonderful blend of world, funk and jazz with epic harmonies. Adam Gottlieb came up during our set with 15 minutes to midnight to read off intentions for 2026 written on sheets of paper and put into our wonderfully crafted intention box made by Leanna Wende and Katie Smallman. We laughed, danced, and all stepped through the portal of 2026 together after reading *most* of the dozens of intentions. Thank you to all 100 people that showed up to the Tip Top Deluxe Bar & Grill. Thank you to Palestine Solidarity Grand Rapids for tabling and sharing important knowledge and solidarity. Thank you Drew Phillippy and Phoenix Wright for making announcements and leading the energy for the bands to step into. Everyone was amazingly kind and heart centered! Last but not least thank you to Edward Zittel for capturing photos of us! There's exciting things in the works for 2026, and we can't wait to share them with you ❤️ @e.zittel @drew_phoria @sheriffphoenix @leighannabrookesunshine @smallstems @ynotplaymusic @adampgottlieb @adamgottliebandonelove @onlythemiddle @tiptopdeluxebargrill @palestinesolidarity_gr #ynotplaymusic #michiganmusic #chicagomusic #protestmusic #melttheice
New single coming soon! Photo by @raefortn
The love of humanity, the core of where our compassion and resilience rises from - will alchemize all the sickness, psychological warfare, and illusion into a true path forward. That's why we create music and events like NYE @ Tip Top w/ Y-Not, Adam Gottlieb & One Love, Only The Middle It's about standing beside other normal, weirdo humans so that we remember, stand strong, and dance our unique hearts forward - with confidence that we are enough, and that together our love can alter any timeline we face. See you on new years. Tickets are in our bio ❤️ (Pictured is Adam Gottlieb & OneLove)
We grew in 2025 ✓ Our songs reached: 22 countries in 2024 --> 58 in 2025 700 listeners in 2024 --> 1.7k in 2025 4k streams in 2024 --> 6k streams in 2025 Wherever you stream us, there we are ❤️ We look forward to sharing our new single with you soon, and seeing you at our new years show & beyond!
Nothing is certain in life. When I got into my accident about a month ago, it was a shocking twist of fate. As the airbags went off and the hood of the car smashed my windshield, there was a split second where I braced for a terrible outcome, as I couldn't see anything. I never ended up finding the poor deer, and the path ahead was uncertain. Thanks to my parents for being the amazing people they are, we were able to navigate this situation together and I am now riding this humble beauty. I could not be more grateful to be behind the wheel of a car after weeks of searching for the right one that fit my needs and was within the insurance money. I'm lucky and blessed to be where I am. Welcome everyone to my new friend, Gertrude. This is where I will be singing, crying, laughing, and heading to play music - hopefully for years to come ❤️
Our next show is coming up, and for the first time ever, we're throwing a New Year's event! We just finished our 2nd practice for this and we're so excited for where our sound is at right now 😍 designing this setlist with the buildup to midnight has us really geeking out. Our friends from Chicago are joining us and we cannot hype them up enough. Looking forward to announcing our new single and sharing intentions for 2026 with you all this new years ❤️🙏🏻
Today, Tony is playing a solo show at @thestraygr ! He's on first at 7pm and the show is free!
We're excited to announce that we've just added a trio show to our calendar this coming Monday opening up for Detroit's own Mac Saturn! Show starts at 8pm, and as always, our Acoustic Sessions shows allow us to perform some deeper cuts from the Y-Not catalogue 🎵 @mac.saturn @sectionlive #livemusic #liveshow #showannouncement #rock #rocknroll #grandrapids #grandrapidsmi
Y'all! We're hosting a New Year's event! I wanted to create an evening that was more than just a party and a way for people to get down to poetry and music that's speaking to the times we're living in - where we can pour into community and acknowledge our power when we come together to create mutually supportive relationships and intentions for 2026. Only the Middle & Adam Gotlieb + One Love are from the Anti-Ice movement in Chicago and are incredibly wonderful musicians and human beings. We are so excited for Grand Rapids to experience what they have to share and how fun and impactful they are as musicians. We're here for more than just a party, we're here to celebrate the power of the people when we come together with purpose ✊🏻🫂❤️‍🔥
As we get ready for a New Years announcement, I wanted to share one more video highlighting the incredible time we had at Electric Forest this year. This ending to the set really encapsulates the energy that was cultivated and Marissa Denae Palmeri did such a wonderful job capturing it for us. Stay tuned for a big announcement regarding a New Years Eve show!
Adam (@rumblystatueprod) is hard at work recording our new single 🤟🏻 with half of us recorded already, we're well on our way to getting this your way soon. New music in the works! #selfrecording #ynotplaymusic #whynot