Bad Copy

Bay Area band Dollar Store has released the first single off their debut full-length LP. The album, entitled Gentleman Nation, will be arriving in May – just in time for the EAST BAY OLD AND GAY Pacific Northwest tour with fellow East Bay punks Middle-Aged Queers and legends Bobby Joe Ebola & The Children MacNuggits!!

Featuring four weathered battered punks from multiple eras and genres of underground rock, Dollar Store formed in 2023 when post-punk vocalist/musician Leda Gannon began writing songs with famed 924 Gilman Street OG and architect of the Berkeley, CA sound, Jeff Ott. They recruited Michigan-transplant Dave Slaverave on bass and slowly built a repertoire of post-punk, pop, goth, hardcore, heavy rock, soaring melodic metal, and Fugazi-style post-hardcore. Having no idea what to make of this mish mash of inspiration, they just call themselves “non genre” and go by the slug line “Budget music for budget people.”

The first single. entitled “Equivocator (Chicken F**ker),” displays pure punk rage and rejection of the denigration of society the Trump era has normalized. Gannon’s ached defiant venom, Ott’s searing mathematical guitar assault, and Slaverave’s rumbling groove deliver a fitting arrival for this band of old schoolers who remember what America was supposed to be and will not be accepting this pure betrayal of.

Stream the new single below and check out Dollar Store’s string of shows and tour dates too!

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