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Genreless punks Dollar Store are releasing their second single "Tik Tok" on May 9th off their debut full-length LP "Gentleman Nation," dropping May 23rd. They'll then be on 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 May 28th through June 1st. 

Recorded by Bart Thurber and mastered by Jack Endino (as is the entire LP), the second single "Tik Tok" reflects on guitarist/vocalist Jeff Ott's two-decade departure from music and the Bay Area and his decision to return to both. Despite helping found the ethos and legend of 924 Gilman and the very sound of Berkeley, CA punk, he folded his legendary band Fifteen in 2000, left his beloved East Bay, and quit music altogether in 2007. This was the first song written with singer Leda Gannon that eventually blossomed into the full-blown band Dollar Store, ending Ott's musical silence. 

Through Gannon's pen, she spins his story as "time is an island" where everything and everyone moves around us in tides out of motion and reach, sometimes due to bonds and bridges breaking, sometimes because they simply fade away. And in the end, we only hope to return "to that place we belong." It's a heartfelt, soulful reclaiming of a legend, and a fitting return for a man defined by an enormous heart and spirit that's connected with punks all around the world.

Dollar Store have only been a live act for a full year, but have already completed 2 west coast tours, been featured on a live BFF.fm interview & session (https://linktr.ee/hangoversessions), been shouted out in Razorcake, interviewed for Fluke fanzine, and played with such luminaries as Tsunami Bomb, Frightwig, Middle-Aged Queers, Jennie Cotterill of Reckoner/Bad Cop Bad Cop, and Public Serpents.