Straight Goods: “Straight Outta’ Ecoke!”

So what happens when a friend tells you about a band and the show stopping performance they laid out earlier in the week and your boss emails you asking you to write an article on them!? Last week Straight Goods was a band in my music knowledge as someone I had “heard of.” Being away from many local shows for a while, it has taken me away from hearing bands with as much raw energy as these guys. Combining edgy punk with brutal hardcore it leaves room for nothing but a massacre on stage.

With the falling out of Etobicoke Death Squad, 4 of the remaining members got together in the summer of 2006 with nothing but the intention to get “down and dirty.” With such an array of different styles put into their music, Straight Goods found themselves appealing in both the punk and hardcore scenes. Playing in the past with The Plasmarifle, Ion Dissonance, Hello Beautiful, Starring Janet Leigh, and The Petit Project, the band quickly put a name on them map for themselves in the Southern Ontario scene. Being one of the hardest working bands in show business (thanks Dave Chappelle); they quickly established a reputation that got people talking about the intense live sound they possess.

With a few released tracks on college radio stations and playing countless numbers of shows, Straight Goods got the attention of Gorgeous Industries, a D.I.Y. label based out of Toronto, Canada. Gorgeous Industries boasts an outlook of keeping, what is now an over-commercialized hardcore and punk scene, true to its roots of creative and personally crafted music.

Without a doubt, this same mantra is a perfect fit for the so far self-sustaining Straight Goods which can only lead one to assume that the two teamed together will yield some big noise. In hopes of bringing Straight Good’s live act to a recording, the Gorgeous crew is currently recording the band’s first full length. With the release date set for May 12th, 2007, the band is gearing up for a release party at The Duke of Marlborough which will also play as the kick-off to the Punk Love Tour with Akroid.

With talks in the Straight Good’s camp of a Southern Ontario and Quebec tour in the first half of this year and a full length in the recording, the band has laid out a fool proof plan to get their name and sound out to a much wider audience… Something that will work out for the better for Straight Goods in the very near future.