Money Music Album

Loaded with trans-fats, soaked in cheap hops, and good for you in that way you know ain't no damn good for you. Money Music
should be labeled "extra-greasy," which is to say, extra good, so keep
the sonic Wet-Naps handy, you’re gonna need them. The album was
recorded in two days and sounds like what the sessions were--four
musicians, thoroughly enjoying themselves, pushing tempos and volume
levels along the way. Thumbing their noses at self-obsessed bands who
spend months in the studio and enough dough to build a pyramid in order
to foist another polished dud upon the world, Dollar Store prove that rock n’ roll imbued with genuine energy and dynamism trumps indecision and overdubs every time.Guitarist
Tex Schmidt's leads (think of the ragged energy of the Replacements
combined with Scotty Moore’s cool) and Waco Brother Alan Doughty's manic
bass are anchored by Joe Camirillo (Hushdrops) hitting the drums with
straight forward authority. The simple, effective set up of a good rock
band. Vocally, "Deano" Schlabowske seems to have hit the sweet
spot between his gruff beginnings in his noise-pop outfit Wreck and the
more anarchic, roadhouse-informed style he adopted in the Waco Brothers.In
theme, Schlabowske's songs are a blurry stagger through a company town-
a ghost utopia where the jobs have gone away, the drinks are too
expensive and most are in debt up to their (blue) collars. Along the
way he touches on music biz woes, the celebrity obsessed, scrap metal
collection as a career and laments signing the "dotted line on the lost
highway". Not exactly chipper stuff but, hey, have you looked out your
window lately? But Deano and the gang paint hard times with a thick
coat of joyous noise-–you can’t get too depressed.In a music
world where computers are used to sweeten every harmony, remove every
noise, tune every note and sand down every rough edge, Money Music
is, above all, real. You can hear, see and taste everything beautiful
and ugly in their world. Enjoy in moderation. Or, better yet, skip the
moderation.(From Bloodshot Records)