Chicago-based garage rock band The Blasted Diplomats play a boozy, lo-fi brand of straight-ahead rock and roll that conjures up memories of the late great 90s band, Grifters. Weld that sound to the brains of the four record store workers (and record collectors, no doubt) who comprise this quartet and you have a band that plays songs that are almost instantly familiar and demand to be heard live and buzzed in a dive bar.