From the best aspects of the insurgent country ghetto and the vaunted Chicago noise guitar scene comes Dollar Store. On their debut CD, Deano and the boys take bluegrass and country 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. 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 dign   [ read more ]

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It's difficult for listeners to know exactly what kind of music they'll hear when they check out a new alternative country band. Honky tonk? Classic rock? Old-time country? Fronted by Dean Schlabowske of the Waco Brothers and Wreck, Dollar Store draws from a handful of subcategories to create a lively mix of rocking guitars, pedal steel, and socially with-it lyrics. The self-titled album kicks off with an angry rocker titled "New Country," a song that describes the false hope of a   [ read more ]

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A cover photograph of a dog wearing a hat with its big, ugly tongue thrust into the foreground offers an introduction of sorts to Dollar Store's Money Music. It's as if the band is saying "the music that the listener is getting ready to experience is in your face, down to earth, and real, though not necessarily 'pretty.'" The opener makes good on this promise. "Money Music" is a rocking track that rolls out of the speakers, shrinking the distance between the band and the listener. The band -- bassi   [ read more ]

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