New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Girlie Action Media & Marketing) After a successful run with their debut LP release Thrashin' (via UK's Marshall Teller Records), Brooklyn's
Total Slacker bring along their friends Night Manager on this Summer's Touch Yourself USA Tour. The posse ventures through 13 cities playing DIY house shows and venues plus a live Daytrotter Session on June 8 at 2PM CST. (See tour dates below)
Total Slacker cover Grimes' "
Oblivion" premieres on Brooklyn Vegan: http://tinyurl.com/7g6y3ps
Coming this June,
Total Slacker release two new 7"s. The first Brain Slime will be released digitally worldwide on June 15th via Sixteen Tambourine Records (Japan). Only 300 physical copies will be pressed for June 20th release (200 Japan / 100 US).
The second Friend Crush 7" split with Brooklyn scene-mates
Friends will be out in late June on Sixteen Tambourine Records - Stay tuned for details!
Total Slacker + Night Manager / TOUCH YOURSELF USA Live Dates:
6/2 - BROOKLYN, NY @ Cheap Storage
6/3 - PHILADELPHIA, PA @ Pi Lam (3914 Spruce Street)
6/4 - HARRISONBURG, VA @ My Mansion (265 W. Market St.)
6/5 - PITTSBURGH, PA @ Garfield Art Works
6/7 - DETROIT, MI @ Magic Stick
6/8 - DAYTROTTER LIVE SESSION @ 2 PM CST
6/8 - CHICAGO, IL @ Township w/ White Mystery
6/10 - MILWAUKEE, WI @ Turf Club
6/12 - BLOOMINGTON, IN @ The Bishop
6/13 - COLUMBUS, OH @ Ace Of Cups
6/14 - BALTIMORE, MD @ Bell Foundry w/ Weekends
6/15 - BOSTON, MA @ Liz Pelly's (Secret house show/contact for details)
Brain Slime 7" Tracklisting:
SIDE A
1 - Brain Slime
2 - Soft Serve Maybelline
SIDE B
1 - Todd P's Weed
Total Slacker IS an American psych-lo-fi-garage-noise-*gaze band from Brooklyn, New York founded by Tucker Rountree and Emily Jane. In the last year-and-a-half as a band they've played over 100 (mostly sold-out) live shows including performances alongside Beach Fossils, DFA 1979, Friends,MNDR, Thee Oh Sees,
Prince Rama, The Rapture, Real Estate, Rick Ross, YUCK, Vivian Girls, Wavves, Woods plus MANY MORE. Within their first year,
Total Slacker released a 2 Song EP, "Crystal Necklace" onImpose Records as well as a 7" Split EP with Weird Dreams (UK), a digital single of "Secret VHS Collection,"and a full length LP, "Thrashin" all on the UK Label Marshall Teller Records.
Total Slacker are looking forward to the release of more EPs this June, including a 7" split with Brooklyn scene-matesFriends (both on Sixteen Tambourines - Japan)
"Slowed down, fuzzed-out punk band ... their extended, feedback-laden jams take on an infinite number of permutations. During one interlude, Tucker kicked, spun, jumped, and fell on the ground, then climbed up on the bass drum to play his guitar behind his head." - MTVhive.com
"With the Brooklyn acts
Total Slacker and Beach Fossils, its a directory of the Brooklyn contingent of a sub-sub-genre with perhaps the most unfortunate appellation in music history: "shitgaze." - The New Yorker Magazine
"Front man Tucker Rountree manages to echo both Thurston Moore
and
Lou Reed with his half-sung, half-spoken lyrics about being young, broke, and in love with a girl...His guitar solos started out with room to breathe, but often ended with him on the floor by his guitar amp, making as much noise as possible. Oppenheimer's solid bass riffs and sweet backing vocals brought Kim Deal to mind." - Village Voice
"Total Slacker's sense of humor is the album's driving force, and it's both overt and weirdly specific... their alt-rock churn works in their favor. Rountree is an adept guitarist, He uses simple, elegant guitar lines in "Magical Date Night" and "High School Dropout" open with mood-setting one-note sols that act as complete earworms" - Pitchfork
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