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The Straight A

Raw & rawkin'

About Me



The members of the The Straight A started their joint activities in December 2005 in Frankfurt am Main (Germany). All of them used to play in several other bands and session groups before. Their common musical preferences cover 60's mod and garage, 70's punk and 80's, 90's as well as today's indie rock plus some more or less obscure releases of different genres from the last half century.
The trio whose music is marked by dirty guitar riffs, straight beats and tight bass lines mixes raw energy and an unpolished garage sound into a captivating, completely self-composed rock stew. In other words: The Straight A's do their best to create rough but catchy tunes which you can't easily get out of your head; songs of different moods, but working together harmoniously. Take a listen and tell us your opinion below (or see what fellow users had to say).
Read more about The Straight A on the MySpace site of the 'Frankfurter Krantz' , a regional association of punk'n'roll bands - we are taking part in this venture. Besides, in our blog you'll find the latest band news in brief.
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Member Since: 6/4/2006
Band Website: regioactive.de/thestraighta
Band Members: You are listening to Wolfgang (git, voc), Peter (dr) and Udo (b).

Promo EP

Influences: Most of the following have influenced us, others are added for the fact that they rock!

The (International) Noise Conspiracy, The Hellacopters, New Bomb Turks, Gluecifer, Turbonegro, The Mochines, The Donnas, The Flaming Sideburns, Backyard Babies, The Hives, The Datsuns, The Vines, Jed Whitey, The Strokes, Gem, Mando Diao, Kings Of Leon, Some Action, The Von Bondies, The Mooney Suzuki, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Wolfmother, The Bravery, The Veils, The Alones, Danko Jones, The Detroit Cobras, Jerry Spider Gang, The Music, The Subways, Ash, Arcade Fire, Jane’s Addiction, The BellRays, Sonics Rendezvous Band, Sex Museum, Temporal Sluts, The Bordellos, The Rah Rahs, Monstrous Blues, The Cooper Temple Clause, On Trial, Baby Woodrose, Bikini Kill,

Back Cover Motive

L7, Yo La Tengo, The Dandy Warhols, Union Carbide Productions, The Soundtrack Of Our Lives, Mono Men, Dead Moon, Social Distortion, Jeff Dahl, Hüsker Dü, The Pandoras, The Broken Jug, The Nomads, The Cynics, Sound Explosion, The New Christs, Miracle Workers, PIL, The Patti Smith Group, Dickies, Dead Kennedys, Ramones, The Clash, Sex Pistols, Radio Birdman, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Led Zeppelin, Hawkwind, David Bowie / Mick Ronson, Iggy & The Stooges, MC5, The Sonics, The Beatles, The Who, The Yardbirds, The Rolling Stones and many more.

Sounds Like: flashbacks to the 60's garage rock explosion, kick-ass 70's rock and (proto-)punk, 80's garage punk revival as well as 21st century's "neo garage" and similar kinds of exciting & frenzied music

Band Association (click on pic)

Type of Label: None

My Blog

No. 1 placements for two of our songs

On January 9th, 2008, the song "Girl You Have Stolen My Heart" climbed on position 1 of the classic rock charts in Germany's biggest artist portal MyOwnMusic.de. And on January 16th, 2007, o...
Posted by The Straight A on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:23:00 PST

Featured on Radio Basile

From September 22 to 28, 2007, The Straight A was featured on Radio Basile. Carlo Basile, the operator of this site, has been one of the most prominent top managers in th...
Posted by The Straight A on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 05:48:00 PST

Listen to us via (web)radio!

Tracks of The Straight A are currently being played on the following (web-)radios / music stations: ..Limelight Radio (USA) ..XND Radio Indie Uprising Tuesday Rockshow (USA)..Vibrarock (Span...
Posted by The Straight A on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:52:00 PST

Remastered tracks - free download

In July 2007 our EP White Ass Riot Soul" was remastered by the Masterblaster audio studio in Frankfurt am Main. The new versions can now be found in high bitrates on last.fm and on our Germ...
Posted by The Straight A on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 06:51:00 PST

Selected newcomer

During August 2007 The Straight A was one of ten editorially selected newcomers who were featured on mp3community.de. This portal is powered by a major manufacturer of entertainment ele...
Posted by The Straight A on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:49:00 PST

Check out our gig partners

Check out our friends from Üben! On March 13th, 2007, we had a nice concert evening together with them at the Clubkeller in Frankfurt. The Big Heat, five hot rockin' guys of the Fr...
Posted by The Straight A on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 05:36:00 PST

New cooperation started

The FRANKFURTER KRANTZ, a new association of punk'n'roll bands from Frankfurt am Main, has started its activities and launched a MySpace site. Members are The Big Heat, The Voodoo Godz, Ingrate and Th...
Posted by The Straight A on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:55:00 PST

The Straight A as Featured Artist

From May 19th-28th The Straight A was featured on http://www.myspace.com/lyricuk. It's the "United Kingdom Featured Artists Studio" of music journalists Lyric LaCeile and...
Posted by The Straight A on Wed, 30 May 2007 06:58:00 PST

"Rock'n'Roll Asshole" in Antenne Bayern Download Charts

The Straight A song "Rock'n'Roll Asshole" is now available in a 192k version at ..Antenne Bayern's Soundgarage, the strongly frequented online music platform of the professional Bavarian ra...
Posted by The Straight A on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:13:00 PST

Links

Sometimes partners or special friends and acquaintances in the internet ask us to post temporarily banners of them here on MySpace. Voilà, these are the current items: CLICK   CLICK &...
Posted by The Straight A on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 06:31:00 PST