Total Slacker man Tucker Rountree was interviewed on NBC.com about their debut LP "Thrashin" and the recent occupy wall street protests. On December 7, 2011 VH1 interviewed the band for WTF Wednesday's O Music awards. On October 1, 2012, Total Slacker announced that their second drummer, Terence Connor, was killed in a hit-and-run accident while biking. Soon after this, Zoë Brecher, a recent Skidmore College graduate, joined the band. On August 19,2016 they released their third studio album Parallels. Total Slacker Total Slacker is an American band from Brooklyn, New York. In their first year as a group, they released two singles
Slacker (film) Slacker (film) Slacker is a 1990 American independent comedy-drama film written 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. In 2012, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". "Slacker" follows a single day in the life of an ensemble of mostly under-30 bohemians and misfits in Austin, Texas. The film follows various characters and scenes, never staying with one character or conversation