Streight-Fucking-Angular

The first time I saw Streight Angular I was sipping a New Castle at The Rosebud during the This Blue Heaven residency a few months back. The first thing I noticed (this is the first thing anyone notices) was -{holyshit Zack Morris and Osama Bin Laden had a love child that slipped past the CIA}. The last song of the set, and the first song I heard was "Everyone Is Synchopated" the blistering title track off their 2011 release. Yes kiddies, you read me right "blistering", say it, while listening to the track here, and you'll know what I mean. This song is on a short list to be included in The Management's Top 10 of '11, for sure. I may or may not have mentioned my inability to dance, in fact if you've ever seen me at a show, I kind of look like a refrigerator on the dance floor. Not so with with this cut, I'm wobblin' with the best of 'em. The normally infuriating "Oh oh oh oh oh's" become anthemic, my fist is pumping, my throat is raw from screaming along with Al and Theresa.

I've been waiting with bated breath for the next release from these cats, thankfully they are never one to disappoint. Their newest release "Supermarché" blows "Everyone is Syncopated" out of the water. What I can only dub as "Punk and Roll", Streight Angular once again goes balls deep with the heart pumping fist pounding rock and fucking awesomeness. I can hear influences of surf rock and punk. This cut leaves studio perfection behind, and embraces the squishy love of the DIY construct. I can hear fingers on strings, off key background vocals, all of the stuff that normally drives me mad in a recording. Yet somehow, they pull it off, without apologies and thumbing their collective noses at the current expectation for what a recording should be. Streight Angular has once again given me something I didn't know I wanted, and now I want more.

"Supermarché" is being released October 1, 2011 and I highly recommend a listen, and if you get a chance, pick up the album. Al and Theresa are stand up folks, and they play a hell of a show. See event listings below to find out where they are playing next.

• Sep 28

  PA's Lounge

  Somerville, MA
• Oct 08

  Killjoy Festival

  Boston / Cambridge, MA
• Oct 21

  Radio

  Somerville, MA

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The 9/11 "Band Wagon"

I get uncomfortable discussing our current political situation, it means I'm a part of it. Lately something's been chipping away at that attitude. Maybe it's the universe, maybe God, maybe the law of averages has been catching up with me. It takes a lot to stir me from my political apathy. As a rule, I make grossly ignorant and inflammatory statements to outrage the pseudo-intellectuals I hang out with on occasion.

Well, something out there said "fuck that". Ten years after 9/11, it's a time when everyone is tired of hearing about it. We still have the spare changers, the conspiracy theorists, the capitalists still banking off of it. And then there's the folks who just want to move on. I'll say it if no one else will. We're all in the ten year anniversary together. A man makes a bold move when he examines how he feels about a situation and expresses what he feels, rather than what he wants others to feel.

The former is true for "World Trade" the August free download by Cancer Killing Gemini you can still listen to it for free here. On September 11, 2011, it wasn't the commercials, and facebook posts that made me think about what I'd been doing on the same day ten years ago. In fact, I wanted to distract myself from the whole thing and clicked on the link that #whatshisface sent me. After seeing that it was "a song about 9/11" I told my laptop to "fuck off" got on my bike and rode around for a bit. I've never wanted to remember. For the past ten years I've been seeing the slogan "Never Forget" and I just wish I could forget.

Tonight I took the time to listen to "World Trade". I expected the usual, "never forget" "god bless" "yadda yadda". What I got was a retrospective on someone elses ten years. Longing to see cousin home for the holidays or just any day to hold his son. Regret at what we as a nation, and as individuals, have done over the last decade. What I heard, but wasn't said was hope that the next ten years will be better. And this is something that I hope you'll take from it. Take a listen, shake the dust off, we can do this.

Catch Cancer Killing Gemini on The Boston Local Music Show tomorrow on UNregular Radio at 12:00PM. They are scheduled to go live at 2:00PM.

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In addendum: I could go on all day about these cats and their great sound, musicianship, style etc. But really, you're not going to listen to me, listen to the music, form you're own opinion from that. Even if the music isn't your style, the writing is human enough for all of us. xoxo The Management 9/15/2011