Total Slacker is a Brooklyn garage rock band based out of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Composed of Tucker Rountree on guitar and vocals, Emily Oppenheimer on bass and vocals and Ross Condon on drums, the group fuses fuzzy alt-rock melodies with humorous lyrics and psychedelic imagery. As one of the best-known acts from Brooklyn’s DIY landscape, the group will serve as scene ambassadors on their upcoming tour of the east coast and Midwest. I caught up with Tucker and Emily last week, […]
Morning Bites: David Rakoff scores, Marcel the Shell, Fear and Loathing again, and more
Marcel the Shell gets a book deal, and Jezebel talks to Jenny Slate and Dean Fleischer-Camp about it. “Challenged once by a friend to name a single immortal literary character from postwar fiction — someone to rival Sherlock Holmes or Madame Bovary in terms of bleed-through to popular consciousness — I blurted out “Norman Mailer!” ” – Jonathan Lethem hearts Norman Mailer. David Rakoff wins the Thurber Prize for American Humor for his hilarious essay collection Half Empty. Retracing Hunter […]