{"id":74741,"date":"2025-12-18T20:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T20:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/74741\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T20:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T20:05:07","slug":"the-slackers-staten-island-show-sells-out-for-december-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/74741\/","title":{"rendered":"The Slackers\u2019 Staten Island show sells out for December tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"FBRNYI2NGBD73GMDCDZDORZKCM\">STATEN ISLAND, NY &#8212; The Slackers have sold out their December 18 Staten Island stop on the band\u2019s Home for the Holidays 5 Boro NYC Tour 2025, with tickets vanishing days before the secret show despite limited advance promotion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"UAX5XTVXBZD2DDRQKKGWJIOYFY\">The event, which features local Ska\/grunge \u201cskrunge\u201d group Not From Concentrate, sold out quickly after tickets became available through the band\u2019s website. This rapid sell-out points to growing interest in ska and ska-adjacent music on Staten Island. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"HLKYFPCFSFHYDKDGFNS4BCMEM4\">Ska is a genre of music that originated in Jamaica and offers a combination of Jamaican folk music, R&amp;B and blues. It became well known in certain subcultures in Great Britain and the U.S., especially after its fusions with punk rock music. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"F6VR32SI5RGGTJUURQVRHD7RSY\">While the \u201cforgotten borough\u201d has maintained a small, dedicated pocket of fans, Manhattan and Brooklyn venues have historically dominated New York City\u2019s scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"E4KEHP3ZPBBG5FSMXAGZPLTLZI\">In 2022, James Aurelia, a member of Not From Concentrate, started \u2018Staten Ska,\u2019 a series that features bi-annual shows at Mother Pug\u2019s Saloon. These events have showcased local, regional and touring ska bands, and brought more fans to the genre. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, NY &#8212; The Slackers have sold out their December 18 Staten Island stop on the band\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-74741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}