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| The Slackers | ||||
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| Released | 1993 | |||
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| Genre | Ska | |||
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| Label | Special Potato Production | |||
| Producer | ???? | |||
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The Slackers was a cassette-only 1993 album by The Slackers. Although self-released, Moon Records assisted in distribution of the release.
A slacker is someone who habitually avoids work or lacks work ethic.
Slacker is a 1990 American independent comedy-drama film written, produced, and directed by Richard Linklater, who also appears in the film. Slacker was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize - Dramatic at the Sundance Film Festival in 1991.
The Slackers are an American ska band, formed in Manhattan, New York in 1991. The band's sound is a mix of ska, rocksteady, reggae, dub, soul, garage rock, and jazz. The Slackers' notability is credited to their prolific career, tours of North America, Europe, and elsewhere, and signing to notable punk label Hellcat Records.
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Victor "Vic" Ruggiero, is a musician, songwriter and producer from New York City who has played in reggae, blues, ska and rocksteady bands since the early 1990s, including The Slackers, Stubborn All-Stars, SKAndalous All Stars, Crazy Baldhead and The Silencers. He has also performed with punk rock band Rancid, both live and in the studio. He has released four solo acoustic albums and continues to tour and record worldwide. Ruggiero is known primarily as a singer and organist, although he also plays piano, bass, banjo, cigar box guitar, guitar, harmonica and percussion.
Before There Were Slackers There Were... is a collection of recordings from 1992, 1994, and 1995 by The Slackers under the pseudonym, The Nods. Despite common misconception, the band was already known as The Slackers when this material was recorded and several of the tracks had previously appeared on their demo tapes. The pseudonym was used due to the album being self-released during the time that the Slackers were first signed to Hellcat Records.
AOL Radio powered by Slacker was an online radio service available in the United States only. It had over 200 free internet radio stations.
Do The Ska With The Slackers was a cassette-only release by New York City band The Slackers, released in 1992. Essentially the tape is a set of demo recordings. Track 7, a version of which was later released on Better Late Than Never, features Dunia Best of Agent 99 on vocals.
Jayson Nugent is a guitarist and DJ from New York who plays in the style of several Jamaican music genres.
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Unchained Spirit is the sixth studio album by dancehall/reggae artist Buju Banton, released in 2000. It was his first and only album to be released on the ANTI- record label, an imprint of Epitaph Records which was more commonly known for underground and avant-garde Rock music, but was trying to branch out into the Reggae genre, especially on the strength of their release of music by the Ska band known as The Slackers. Aside from the fact that the album was on such an unexpected label, Unchained Spirit was simply issued with extremely little promotion. There is no known commercial hit or single from this album; nevertheless it is considered groundbreaking by many.
Glen William Pine is an American musician and songwriter from Boston, MA. He is most known for his role in The Slackers where he plays the trombone and sings. Pine joined the Slackers before the release of The Question on which he contributed with the song Mountainside. Glen was an original member of Boston-based reggae outfit The Pressure Cooker. Along with Vic Ruggiero, he has performed under the name the Redlights.
Slacker Uprising is a documentary about Michael Moore's tour of colleges in swing states during the 2004 election, with a goal to encourage 18- to 29-year-olds to vote, and the response it received. The film is a re-edited version of Captain Mike Across America, which played at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2007.
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