@Slacker_Shack

An alt music + pop culture blog published by @dunstancarter. Always looking for new bands, artists, and films to get excited about.

 Manchester
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Joined March 2021
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This blog took a while, but it's well worth exploring if you're fan of psych rock, krautrock, prog, and folk #music - Slacker Shack's "Top 10 – Obscure and overlooked albums from the 1970’s" slackershack.wordpress.com/2…

Top 10 – Obscure and overlooked albums from the 1970’s

Following on from our Top 10 obscure and overlooked albums from the 1960s, we’re now diving into the 1970s — where psych, prog, krautrock, folk, synth-pop and the avant-garde, mutated and evolved i…

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What an amazing @mancpsychfest yesterday. Big shout outs to @annaerhardmusic @ghostcar @nadineshah #woioi and #goat - all awesome
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RIP Ronnie Rondell 🔥
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WTF is this? It's not Shove Halfpenny or Cribbage 🤣
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Midlake's 'Roscoe' is a Fleetwood Mac homage isn't it? Have I joined up the dots? Or am I tipsy? #music
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Sly Stone and Brian Wilson dying in the same week. Two huge losses. RIP.
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Hats off to @thedailymash for that headline
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If you're a Substacker come follow me on there. I'd love to be less lonely 🤣 dunstansoclosetome.substack.…
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New blog on music myths... slackershack.wordpress.com/2…

Top Five – music myths that just won’t die

Music has always been surrounded by myths, conspiracies, and well, straight-up bollocks and nonsense really. Some tales are fuelled by paranoia, some by rock n’ roll egos or tomfoolery, and o…

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Top Five – episodes of Ed Gamble and James Acaster’s ‘Off-Menu’ podcast (Part 2)

In late 2021, I wrote a blog about my favourite episodes of Off Menu, the titillating food podcast hosted by Ed Gamble and James Acaster I binged on during the covid lockdowns. Since then, the show…

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I've been digging deep and hunting down overlooked and obscure albums from the 80s as a follow up to my recent 70s dig. If you're into psych rock, post punk, early electronica #music and genre bending 80s indie, have a read... slackershack.wordpress.com/2…

Top 10 – Obscure and overlooked albums from the 1980s

Following on from Slacker Shack’s recent deep dives into obscure and overlooked albums from the 1960s and 1970s, we’re now slipping into our neon terry towelling socks, picking out our pastel-colou…

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Crap night's sleep? Try this later on this evening and thank me later... #justasuggestion #twinpeaks slackershack.wordpress.com/2…

Twin Peaks Ambient Music – Dream Sequencer

Do you struggle to get to sleep some nights? Do you enjoy peculiar (often disturbing) dreams? Then worry no more, here’s a solid hour of beautiful Twin Peaks ambient music to keep you at (un)…

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Check out 'Peter Hair' a new animated short from @UncleShortbread - it's both funny and deeply moving (if you're a man with a thinning head of hair) slackershack.wordpress.com/2…

Peter Hair – new animation

As a man approaching 50 with a thinning head of hair, this animated short from Adult Swim (created and written by Uncle Shortbread) hits hard, as we follow Peter, a hair living on the head of a bal…

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Huge loss. And a strange ending to a great story. RIP
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Blokeacola@Blokeacolazero21 Feb 2025
Humongous thankingtons to @Slacker_Shack for this generous review: slackershack.wordpress.com/2…

Blokeacola – Shoulda – new EP

Blokeacola’s newly released five track EP, Shoulda, came together over Chinese New Year, recorded in his mother-in-law’s house in Ningbo, China, with little more than the bare essentials. With Chin…

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Check out the brilliant new EP from @Blokeacolazero - a spontaneous, zeitgeisty set of songs that's are a must listen for fans of Elliott Smith, Badly Drawn Boy, Steven Adams, and/or Lou Barlow... #newmusic slackershack.wordpress.com/2…

Blokeacola – Shoulda – new EP

Blokeacola’s newly released five track EP, Shoulda, came together over Chinese New Year, recorded in his mother-in-law’s house in Ningbo, China, with little more than the bare essentials. With Chin…

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The wonderful @Blokeacolazero never disappoints! #NewMusic2025
Blokeacola@Blokeacolazero4 Feb 2025
For fans of #wilco #jefftweedy #elliottsmith #borednothing #crowdedhouse. Recorded during Chinese New Year at my in-laws in Ningbo, all I had available to me was a 14 year old laptop with an old version of Sony Acid, an acoustic guitar and not much else: blokeacola.bandcamp.com/albu…
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A new solo album from TVOTR's Tunde Adebimpe is imminent (and it's brilliant) #newmusic slackershack.wordpress.com/2…

Tunde Adebimpe – Thee Black Boltz – new album

Tunde Adebimpe, best known as the frontman of TV On The Radio, is going it alone with forthcoming album, Thee Black Boltz. Whilst TVOTR thrived on collaboration, this album has a slightly rawer and…

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More @Blokeacolazero excellence... slackershack.wordpress.com/2… #newmusic

Blokeacola – Strawberries in Winter – new video

One of my favourite songs from Blokeacola’s awesome ‘Quasars and Fluff’ double album, Strawberries in Winter, sees our helmeted troubadour on the finest of forms – check out…

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