About us…

Sloucher is a collaborative blog about music, the arts and anything else that takes our fancy (except politics and religion, boo hiss to both!*). Sloucher is edited by Sam with a healthy rota of writers from all around the net. We don’t pay but we can bribe them with false promises of sweets and Jaffa cakes (hmm, jaffa cakes)…

We also specialise on being late with reviews, backhanded compliments and possibly liking stuff more than it deserves. Eh, it beats being another Pitchfork wannabe.

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You can contact us at Soundcloud too (although we lost the password, so if you sent something, sorry!) :

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Or drop us a few lines at:

editors (at) sloucher.org

sloucherandslackersunited (at) googlemail.com

A round of applause to Lety Rodriguez de San Miguel Arevalo for making our logo. She’s a great graphic designer.

Staff

Sam (Editor, reviewer, photographer, office monkey, etc)

An eternal lost soul from México, Sam has worked for telecommunication companies, oil companies, environmental consultancies and frankly, he’s had it with the scum of the world. So the world of reviewing it is, then. While not spamming here and several other places, he’s (supposedly) doing a PhD, “playing” a guitar (connected through a microKorg, natch!) and trying to perfect his Mancunian accent (no, still not getting it). Actually, the microKorg is now broken, so boo to that too. Two sandwiches short of a picnic.

Orestes (Milk, insults)

Our amazing fast-hoofed online expert. We pay him in soy-based milk and kitchen knives. It (we don’t know if it’s a she or a he) likes to drink mead, buckfast and the occasional shot of peanut vodka. When not doing tech stuff for the Zine, Orestes leads its own religion, The Cult of Cowdonia (join him!). A shop that well stocked is the closest we all are to proving that there is a Heaven. And it smells of alcohol, baby. Y cuando se le acaba la inspiración, se ponde a despiporrar cosas nomás pa echar desmadre.

Simimon (a.k.a. Miller) (Webcomic)

Real bio coming soon! Suffice to say, he draws the webcomics, lives in a coffee shop 24/7 and routinely test-crashes his car. His drawing style is mainly manga, but decided to branch out for webcomics. Any feedback is always welcomed (although might not be taken into account for a while).

Alivon (Webcomic)

Our very trusty comic book inker and dialogue-balloon-maker, she enjoys a good movie, and re-shaping the universe from her Wacom Tablet. She’s not an actual chocolate, but she’s quite sweet.

Guests (aka current slaves people that write for us)

Fuzz Caminski (Writer, reviewer, drinker of tea)

Fuzz Caminski was born at an early age to humans. He spent too much of my time at Uni in Leeds and too little time becoming a proper grown up, member of society. Luckily his History degree taught him one thing more than any other, it’s not about proving you’re right, it’s about proving the other person is wrong! He openly admits to being a ‘lovable Bastard’. He does not like radio DJ’s who interject their monologues with the phrase ‘right, listen’, as clearly he already is listening, he has to be, it’s the very nature of the medium they’re broadcasting on! He like good coffee and peeling the plastic screen cover off of gadgets. He is often found swearing at the orange commercials in cinemas before the movie begins. Also, the following statements are accurate about the man-child; a reader of comics, drinker of tea, eater of sandwiches, listener of music, do-er of things and being a maker of lists!

Russ Palmer (Writer, monkey wrangler)

Russ is the singer and guitarist for Sheffield band The Unfortunate Incident. Russ has a gorilla called Pow-Pow in his shed that he has taught to have a sign language vocabulary of over 2000 words. Russ transcribes Pow-Pow‘s ramblings and passes them off as his own work. Russ is a plagiarising no-talent bastard. Now feck off and fetch me a banana.

Mikaela Shafer (Writer, reviewer)

Mama, crafter and food snob. She wears shiny pants and bakes fresh baked bread and listens to 60′s french pop.  She lives in a tiny bungalow in Utah and spends her nights cuddling with her bff and girl child and watching documentaries on sharks. You can get more info from all things cool in Ogden at her blog, Indie Ogden.

Caitlin White (reviewer, snazzy dresser)

Caitlin is a lover of old things. Although she recently wasted several hundred thousand dollars on three degrees, she currently is an intern at Spin Magazine and works at a restaurant to actually pay rent. The main thing she cares about is music but she has also been known to have extreme emotions about vintage clothes, graphic design, poetry, perfume, cowboy boots, cobblestone & old bricks. She recently moved to Brooklyn and originally hails from Portland, Oregon. She enjoys writing about music for several blogs, including GoldFlakePaint, Listen Before You Buy, Musical Math and if she can get her shit together, her own blog Bleecker Street Beat. Also, if you say anything bad about Bob Dylan to her, she’ll probably stop being your friend.

Keefy (reviewer, bass master, lover of post rock, all around top fella)

Things you should know:
How did it get to 2012?
Old, so knows nearly everything.(So don’t argue)
Bloody musical snob.
Loves the ’60’s but not stuck there.
Plays bass guitar.
Paints pictures.
Likes the odd book.
Often found wandering the hills in the Peak District.
Has a love/hate relationship with his facial hair.
Happy.
ps. DO NOT BUY THIS MAN WHISKY.

Abigail Evans (reviewer, Journalistic soldier of fortune)

Abigail Evans – an enigma, wrapped in a Journalism Studies degree, wrapped in a fur coat, dipped in vodka and sprinkled lightly with surrealism.

Joseph McArthur Field (reviewer, stylish banjo)

Lizzie Palmer (reviewer, violin prodigy)

Coral Williamson (reviewer, videogame prodigy)

Jonny Sock (deviant, agony aunt)

Jimmy Jazz (reviewer, Castleton superhero)

Previous collaborators.

Homo Rodans (Writer, reviewer, antipoet)

Homo Rodans. An excentric musician/painter/engineer/video-editor/anti-poet from Mexico City. In his spare time he writes reviews of concerts and CDs. Finds joy in Thai food and well prepared soft tacos (filled with meats from all parts of the cow). Strong believer of life outside of this planet and the eventual clash of the worlds. If he could be an animal he would be a violent salamandra, with a heart made of santoprene.

Alex Rucki (Writer, reviewer)

A quarter Ukrainian and the rest Mancunian, Alex Rucki cannot escape being a fully fledged northern lass and selects Sheffield as her adopted home. A Gemini with a definite split personality, you will either find her jumping along to electro music trying to find the nearest after show party or listening to soft indie pop penning a short story about her childhood.

Tonan (Editor, reviewer)

Weird individual as anybody else who dislikes chasing Public Transportation to make her way to whatever place she goes and getting lost (long story) at a scary but beautiful land in the world called Mexico City. This weird individual spends 90% of her time listening to music, and the other 10% making a living out of Languages in a full-time job, writing, studying Physics, Mathematics, Astronomy and Music, reading strange Philosophy books, and stalking her contacts through Social Networks. Oh!, and attending gigs by bands she considers as talented; she strongly believes that Vintage (vinyl) and Jimi Goodwin rule. P.S.: Ford Prefect for President.

Pippa (PM) – (Editor, reviewer, writer)

Pippa is Sloucher’s official pencil monitor, TV/film addict (quality only), cognitive blackhole and a representative of the ‘Crap grammarz and spellings society’. A music enthusiast and one-time piano, bass and drum player (a multi non-instrumentalist) PM will listen to any type of music if it’s ‘fair to middling’. Her favourite things are travelling the world, sampling ‘free cake’ from supermarkets and listening to David Bowie, preferably all at the same time.

Tommy Blank (Writer)

Anti-social commentator, misled columnist and holier than thou blogger with a tendency to take the piss, Tommy studied Journalism at University and has used the skills he developed to criticise anyone whose creative output dares to slightly offend him. He writes a monthly piece in indie Sheffield culture and art magazine Now Then and Sloucher’s weekly Edible column. Follow his daily musings on Twitter twiter.com/tommyblank (@tommyblank). Actually, no, he disappeared to parts unknown :(

LalaUsagi (reviewer)

Grace Crook (reviewer)

Quinto (reviewer, bellend)

Misky (reviewer, alcoholic)

*The reason we don’t talk about politics and religion (and this includes atheism/agnostics/pastafarians) is because we ain’t giving any of them free publicity (good or bad). Ta.

All audio that is streamed on this website is there for the purposes of listener enjoyment and so that readers can experience new music and bands on the internet without having to illegally download their music. Some artists will give us audio files from time to time and in said cases, it will be explicitly stated. We do not own the copyright to this material and if you wish for us to take something off the website please email us at:

editors (at) sloucher.org

sloucherandslackersunited (at) googlemail.com