
Dollar Store
Plying the choppy sonic waves between the best aspects of the roots rock ghetto, mid-80's Minneapolis punk and the vaunted Chicago noise guitar scene.
There's even a startling cover of that long unheralded roots icon Cher ("Believe").
Plying the choppy sonic waves between the best aspects of the roots rock ghetto, mid-80's Minneapolis punk and the vaunted Chicago noise guitar scene is Dollar Store's gritty, self-titled debut CD. Deano and the boys take old school chord progressions and slather them with textures, volume, and loose, angular noise to make them thick and greasy in the finest rock and roll tradition.
Featuring special guests guitarist Dave Alvin (Blasters, Knitters) and pedal steel master Jon Rauhouse (Neko Case, Kelly Hogan), Dollar Store have created a sound rooted in, and worthy of, the exciting fertile traditions from which they are drawing. The songs are full of characters staggering through a world that has let them down -- they are pounded down by work, abandoned by the world of mainstream music, and robbed of dignity by the government -- and they play them like the stage is on fire.
There's even a startling cover of that long unheralded roots icon Cher ("Believe").
CHOICE CUTS:
Around The Bend
Believe (Cher cover)
North Central Plain
Button Up