rolling #metoo thread for sexual harassment in the music industry so no one misses out when artists we don't give a fuck about like Tim Westwood and Bassnectar get caught

He was also 19 years and 9 months old when the Rihanna attack happened. I guess he means he was abusing her even earlier?

nothing says remorse like asking people to shut up

If there's a better way to demonstrate zero personal growth than to throw a temper tantrum and whine about the unfairness of the world each time your teenage "mistake" is brought up, then it's a way Chris Brown will never learn, because Chris Brown will never learn anything.

Chris probably has a very specific misunderstanding of why it's wrong to beat a dead horse.

Ugh, was just googling the Shoegaze/Dreampop/Electronic band Sweet Trip and found this deeply upsetting Reddit post where the top comment is from one member's husband. He talks about how Roby Burgos had a long unhealthy obsession with the other member and sexually assaulted her a year ago. They were promoting the release of their reunion album, which unbeknownst to her at the time of its creation was apparently secretly a love letter to her. What an absolute shithead. I doubt I'll ever be able to listen to their music again.

Dustin Sheehan aka Dusty Grave, from Stellar Corpses

https://i.ibb.co/3kKp4dx/FB-IMG-1680990734410.jpg

xpost -- I'd heard about that horrible Sweet Trip story some months back but wasn't aware how public it was.

Their younger (discord/rym-friendly) fans all seem to be very familiar with it as far as I can tell although it hasn't stopped ST's still-rising popularity in those circles (again afaict). I was interested why that was and a friend, a major fan, said something along the lines of VC continuing to promote or discuss/celebrate the group has extended their longevity like so.

my impression was that it very much did have an impact on their popularity in those circles (this stuff only became known last year, after they broke up again & well after they'd become rym favourites) but those sort of circles are not always the most progressive (to say the least) so there's certainly a contingent of remaining fans who don't care/will actively try to cast doubt on the situation etc.

Paul Oakenfold Faces Sexual Harassment Suit By Ex-Personal Assistant; Grammy-Nominated DJ Allegedly Repeatedly Masturbated In Front Of Plaintiff
https://deadline.com/2023/06/paul-oakenfold-sexual-harassement-allegations-grammy-nominated-dj-major-remixer-1235399650/

A-lister DJ and Swordfish soundtrack composer Paul Oakenfold has been accused of sexual harassment and workplace violations by a former personal assistant.

The lawsuit was filed Friday in LA Superior Court by an individual identified only as Jane Roe, a 24-year-old woman. The plaintiff alleges that two companies run by CEO Paul Stepanek — New Frequency Management and Stepanek Management– Oakenfold, and various John Does violated her employment rights.

Seeking a variety of damages in excess of $25,000, the five-claim complaint declares that shortly after taking a job in October 2022 at the management companies, she was assigned to be Oakenfold’s personal assistant for $20 per hour. Jane Roe worked out of the home of the Grammy-nominated DJ who has remixed such artists as U2, Madonna, Britney Spears and the Rolling Stones.

Starting on Jane Roe’s first day, for a total of four separate dates, Oakenfold allegedly exposed himself and masturbated in front of her. On one date in November 2022, the DJ allegedly did so four times in a single day.. He also allegedly once performed the act in her vehicle according to the filing

I've been calling that guy a jerkoff for years

gross

Swordfish soundtrack composer

was assigned to be Oakenfold’s personal assistant for $20 per hour

the low wage makes this even more slimy.

To be fair this was 2009, but my first job in NYC paid LESS than $20/hour. And I had to have a computer that I paid for. No benefits either. And I was "lucky." (I knew other people who had to make do with unpaid internships.) Job never did anything for me either, I got stabbed in the back and started over in a different sector that was more aligned with what I wanted to do. Regardless labor exploitation is a royally shitty practice in this country, all the more egregious when you consider the enormous income gap.

fair enough, but this was last year and he's literally a multimillionaire.

oh yeah: the dirty fucker is married too.

worried that i'm going to have to stop wearing my oakenfold bomber jacket :(

https://cdn.launchcart.com/u17645/19128/1611909426-9851758e-4fbb-4e83-b1e0-3dede4f7c113.jpg

at least in public

oh ffs

lmao

To be fair I'd have that expression if I was out somewhere wearing that.

Till Lindemann

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-65913988

It’s always the artists you least expect huh

Danny Elfman

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/danny-elfman-nomi-abadi-sexual-harassment-allegation-1234791842/amp/

oh man

"our non-sexual contact was totally consensual" is an extremely odd way to speak about an ostensibly normal working relationship and his defence is such a tried and tested scumbag move I hope it doesn't work

it's usually safe to assume the opposite of whatever the LAPD says

also a wide gulf between "couldn't find a report" and "there was no report"

it's usually safe to assume the opposite of whatever the LAPD says

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otm lol

Anti-Flag have broken up in the middle of a European tour, apparently because the singer is a rapist.

JESUS

I spent way too much time trying to like this terrible band as a teenager, because they seemed to be on the right side of things - which is exactly what they (or at least he) wanted us to think - fuck

I doubt this is an anomaly in the fat wreck world either tbh

Eh, not that I have any desire to defend Fat Wreck since we all know Fat Mike himself is an awful creep at best, but that's a bit of a weird jump since Anti-Flag only released 2 of their 13 albums on that particular label.

But, yeah this is awful, I also spent time trying to get into them, had an ex-girlfriend in the late 1990s/early 2000s who absolutely loved them. I've lost touch with her, but I'm wondering how she's taking this news.

bands are often not who they pretend to be, and it's sometimes easier when you're a lower profile act that isn't going to be as closely scrutinized. I remember an article in Guitar magazine in the 90s (when the term 'feminazi' was omnipresent) by a guitarist who described her recent audition for a band, who had outwardly presented themselves as somewhat progressive and forward thinking, especially when it came to feminism, and yet after her audition they told her that her image didn't fit the band, and she asked "what image?" and they said "female".

she didn't name the band but I figure there's a lot of masquerading like that going on.

I remember how fucking livid I was when Cee-Lo's rape allegations occurred, and then his even worse response to them

OK scratch that if you want but I don't think it's a wild leap and I could say the same about epitaph or whoever these scenes are rife with this kind of shit xps

I'm not arguing with you and you might be right, but I think time has proven that you can literally say that about any male dominated genre of the last fifty years, just saying I'd prefer to focus on the actual accusations in front of us instead of imagined ones.

dr bad religion seems to be doing fine since his webcam activities apparently predated awareness of the concept of consent in the punk scene

Fuck this guy forever though. No singer ever deserves to come back from this, but it's even harder for someone that once wrote a song called, "Feminism Is For Everybody (With A Beating Heart And A Functioning Brain)", for just one example.

xpost is there any documentation of that, as I've tried to find details on that for years and all it's lead to me is ancient message boards and circular references

this is all I find

https://www.reddit.com/r/badreligion/comments/mpfupp/the_webcam_incident_nsfw_i_guess/

I remember it breaking on punknews and largely being received with a bunch of sesquipedelian dick jokes - who knows if those articles still exist now - people calling it out at as creepy the time were drowned out by the hilarious "process of relief" gags

wouldn’t call Anti-Flag part of the “punk scene,” they’ve always been a very commercial band with a commercial sound, but ymmv— not that the actual “punk scene” is that much better, of course

I think time has proven that you can literally say that about any male dominated genre of the last fifty years

pretty much yeah

(3 month xpost) why the fuck do sweet trip even have new fans? that band always sucked. reading through reddit, what a bunch of weirdos.

Sounds like Lizzo is in the crosshairs right now.

Anti Flag is the corniest dork band of all time

American version of Idles?

oh god Anti Flag is a thousand times cornier than Idles

Anti Flag is basically the band version of the annoying freshman guy that read half a chapter of Zinn and Chomsky each and now cannot shut the fuck up about it