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Post by alady on Feb 16, 2018 13:58:48 GMT -6
His response was pretty gross. Disappointing.
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Post by mookie on Feb 23, 2018 13:13:59 GMT -6
Some good news for once:
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2018 14:09:02 GMT -6
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Post by doso on Feb 26, 2018 14:22:55 GMT -6
That's appearing as like 6 pt font on desktop. Is there a link?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2018 14:27:29 GMT -6
m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1934282663283832&id=243827632329352Trigger warnings: graphic details of sexual assault
The following post is from a member of the Trumbullplex booking collective pertaining to the sexual assault carried out by the band Young and in the Way. We aren't using the term “allegations” or “accusations” as the collective member was directly involved in the situation and knows for the account to be 100% accurate and truthful.
We're hoping for this to reach the promoters of Psycho Las Vegas and 71Grind IV rather quickly, as the band's record label has already reached out to us.
“I'm sharing this information both privately and publicly knowing full well that any misinformation could have severe negative effects on my business and personal life, and thus am choosing to do so knowing with full confidence that all of this information is 100% accurate. Myself and the victims involved were all huge fans of the band before this event occurred, and our only motive in sharing this information is to ensure that known sexual abusers are blacklisted from the community that supports them to send a message that these actions are not tolerated.
A little over three and a half years years ago (late summer 2014), the band Young and In The Way stayed at my house after a festival in Detroit. I was a sponsor for the event, and had also assisted in a food pop-up during the event. Several friends came over afterwards, one of them being another band that had performed. (By the time these incidents occurred, the other band was already asleep in my basement, so I am agreeing to keep them confidential, as well as the names of two of the victims and any identifying information for their own safety.)
Late into the evening, several sexual assaults occurred between members of YAITW and three different house guests. One guest was asleep. The other was cornered in a bathroom by multiple members.
Incident #1: victim 1 had the door to the bathroom opened up on her by their front man while she was peeing. He pulled his dick out and told her "You know you want it, come on, suck the dick of a rock star. You already said we're your favorite band." Her and her friend left immediately afterwards.
Incidents #2 and three happened sequentially.
My then partner (Victim 2) was in the bathroom herself about an hour later when three of them walked into the bathroom and immediately shut the door behind them. One of them stood in front of the door so she couldn't open it and shut the lights off and she said she immediately felt several pairs of hands trying to go both down her pants and up her shirt. She had to physically fight them off and came running into my bedroom. I was already asleep and I woke up to her curled up at the foot of my bed and sobbing. I was asleep myself at the time and didn't know what had happened, so I lifted the covers so she could fall asleep next to me and spent a half hour consoling a crying woman who couldn't even form words.
Victim #3's account has been temporarily removed as she wants to add/modify information for accuracy.
While the entire incident was being discussed in the local community afterwards, two feel event attendees privately contacted me as well who had stated that they left the festival early because the frontman had been aggressively hitting on them to the point of pushing one of them against a wall outside the venue and trying to kiss her, and they were no longer comfortable being there.
The manner in which it was dealt with afterwards was rather confusing. Over the course of the next year, both myself, my partner, and the third victim talked to the band members first online then over the phone on several occasions. They started off saying that they had no memory of the night whatsoever but that they weren't denying our statements and that they wanted to resolve things. Their frontman had stated that he left work early when he found out what he had done and spent he next several days in a depressed funk. We conversed several times over the phone for probably close to seven or eight hours altogether, and then things came to a grinding halt.
After a statement from other members of the band to me that they were going to have a band meeting about their future together, the incident as a whole, and how to handle things, phone calls suddenly stopped being returned. At that point in time, our lives were both becoming incredibly hectic as I was dealing with a struggling business and my partner was in the midst of moving back to Michigan from another state, so dealing with it got put on the backburner.
The next time it came up was when the Taake/YAITW tour was announced in fall of 2015. Both my ex and I are huge fans of Taake, and seeing the tour being plastered all over Instagram and Facebook resurfaced the entire incident. I immediately contacted Taake with the accounts of what had happened in hopes that they might reconsider who they were signing on to tour with. Taake's response was "We don't care, keep this drama off the internet." My ex then began openly posting about the incident on every post she could find related to the tour, and the responses from both bands were to immediately delete all posts.
That's when I got a call from YAITW's frontman for the first time in months. He told me that we needed to stop posting lies in the internet because that's not at all what happened, implying that they remembered the entire night (which completely contrasted the statement that they didn't remember the night at all once they got to my house.) People began ridiculing my ex on the internet, telling her that she was "too ugly to be raped", sending her nasty messages, et cetera. At that point it was just getting ridiculous so we dropped it again in order to prevent any further emotional scarring.
It disgusts me that bands get away with this shit because as a touring musician myself I know how rumors can ruin a band's reputation, but these aren't rumors. This is real life shit and I'm appalled at how it was handled and I'm further appalled at how it was swept under the rug and ridiculed. We've all seen this shit happen a million times in our life, and the metal and punk community is supposed to be small and supportive enough on the DIY level to keep people like this out of the community, but unfortunately it does happen. After seeing that the band was set to play multiple festivals this year, after having been loud about it time and time again only to be ridiculed and ignored, finally we've decided that since people's call-outs in this day and age are no longer getting ignored, it was the right time to nip this problem in the bud once and for all.”
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2018 14:28:46 GMT -6
and the band's response.An accusation of sexual assault has been made against members of our band.
As a band and as individuals, we are disgusted that someone was sexually assaulted at an event that we were a part of. We applaud the victim’s courage to talk about it and we support her decision (and right) to name her aggressors. We stand by what we said when we learned about this incident - no member of our band was responsible for this crime. Let us be very clear - our response to this accusation is not an attempt to discredit the victim, we believe her, we’re sorry this happened to her, and we support her. But it was not us.
Victims’ voices can and should be amplified, and we are not sure there’s any decent way to respond to an accusation like this without accepting fault. We can’t accept fault, but we also can’t prove our innocence. That we could even be suspected of such a crime brings us to the end of the road. YAITW is no longer on Deathwish Inc and will not be playing anymore shows. There is nothing left for us to say.
Lastly, do not attack the victim. There is no room for that here.
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Post by ferro_man on Feb 26, 2018 14:38:07 GMT -6
and the band's response.An accusation of sexual assault has been made against members of our band.
As a band and as individuals, we are disgusted that someone was sexually assaulted at an event that we were a part of. We applaud the victim’s courage to talk about it and we support her decision (and right) to name her aggressors. We stand by what we said when we learned about this incident - no member of our band was responsible for this crime. Let us be very clear - our response to this accusation is not an attempt to discredit the victim, we believe her, we’re sorry this happened to her, and we support her. But it was not us.
Victims’ voices can and should be amplified, and we are not sure there’s any decent way to respond to an accusation like this without accepting fault. We can’t accept fault, but we also can’t prove our innocence. That we could even be suspected of such a crime brings us to the end of the road. YAITW is no longer on Deathwish Inc and will not be playing anymore shows. There is nothing left for us to say.
Lastly, do not attack the victim. There is no room for that here. i'm confused by the band's statement they believe the victim, but they're saying it wasn't them... and that they can't prove it wasn't them? |
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Post by Blue42 on Feb 26, 2018 18:51:04 GMT -6
and the band's response.An accusation of sexual assault has been made against members of our band.
As a band and as individuals, we are disgusted that someone was sexually assaulted at an event that we were a part of. We applaud the victim’s courage to talk about it and we support her decision (and right) to name her aggressors. We stand by what we said when we learned about this incident - no member of our band was responsible for this crime. Let us be very clear - our response to this accusation is not an attempt to discredit the victim, we believe her, we’re sorry this happened to her, and we support her. But it was not us.
Victims’ voices can and should be amplified, and we are not sure there’s any decent way to respond to an accusation like this without accepting fault. We can’t accept fault, but we also can’t prove our innocence. That we could even be suspected of such a crime brings us to the end of the road. YAITW is no longer on Deathwish Inc and will not be playing anymore shows. There is nothing left for us to say.
Lastly, do not attack the victim. There is no room for that here. i'm confused by the band's statement they believe the victim, but they're saying it wasn't them... and that they can't prove it wasn't them?
Isn't that the case with most of these things?
Basically, the band denied the accusations but know they can't prove their innocence. I'm guessing it's getting really hard for them to get gigs (and they're getting kicked off fests and such), so they just decided to call it quits. |
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Post by alady on Feb 26, 2018 19:19:18 GMT -6
Not a great look for Taake either, I gotta say.
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Post by Tweet on Feb 26, 2018 20:27:25 GMT -6
Not a great look for Taake either, I gotta say. About that.... |
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Post by alady on Mar 2, 2018 8:59:02 GMT -6
Ryan Seacrest
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2018 9:59:10 GMT -6
Just Googled Ryan Seacrest for the first and hopefully only time in my life.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2018 21:22:58 GMT -6
Jonathan Coachman has been named in a new lawsuit against ESPN in which an ex-employee claims he was “notorious” for sexually harassing women at the company.
Former anchor Adrienne Lawrence filed a sexual harassment/discrimination lawsuit against ESPN on Sunday that accuses the company of ignoring her complaints, specifically against SportsCenter host John Buccigross — but Coachman is mentioned as well.
The document states:
“On or around January 18, 2016, SportsCenter anchor Jonathan Coachman (“Coachman”) emailed Ms. Lawrence offering to provide her with mentorship and providing his cellphone number. When he contacted her via text, he quickly turned a professional conversation into a personal matter, asking her about her musical interests. He was employing the ESPN predators’ playbook. See supra at ¶ 84. Colleagues then cautioned Ms. Lawrence that Coachman was notorious for sexually harassing female employees. After learning that, Ms. Lawrence made an effort to communicate to Coachman that she had a boyfriend, after which she did not hear from him again and he made no offers of mentorship.”
Lawrence also claims:
“Coachman’s reputation for making unwelcome sexual advances toward women and engaging in other sexually harassing behavior was not a secret. Cary Chow had warned Ms. Lawrence about him when he gave the short list of men at ESPN who were notorious for sexual harassment. Coachman had sent Walsh inappropriate photos of himself and text messages, falsely telling her colleagues that they were romantically involved and that she “wanted” him – another common practice of men at ESPN. See supra at ¶ 13. At least one young production assistant who joined ESPN just out of college had complained to Ms. Lawrence about Coachman making her feel uncomfortable by complimenting her physical appearance and making passes at her.
As explained below, when Ms. Lawrence complained to Jack Obringer, Senior Coordinating Producer, Studio Production of ESPN, Inc. that she was being sexually harassed (by another individual), Obringer guessed that the harasser was “Coachman” and indicated that his inappropriate behavior toward women was well-known to management. Nevertheless, Coachman continued to appear in ESPN commercials and on SportsCenter without discipline or accountability until he was quietly dismissed on or around April 26, 2017 via layoff.”
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2018 8:22:36 GMT -6
Coachman actually went to my high school (McPherson High School in McPherson Kansas). I didn't know him b/c he graduated before I attended, but during my graduation in 2002 he showed up on a list of potential speakers for the event and there were some choice words about his decency brought up by a few faculty members and received the fewest amount of votes. In the end we chose a P.E. Coach, who was well known for wildly inappropriate with classmates outside of school hours.
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Post by ultravisitor on Mar 6, 2018 8:31:08 GMT -6
McPherson? We're rivals. I'm from Newton.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2018 8:42:55 GMT -6
I'd side with Newton any day over McPherson. Moved there when I was 12 and hated living there. Could not wait to get out, and after my parents moved in 2004, I have only been back 2-3 times. It breeds dysfunction really well, so the fact that Coachman ended up being a POS, doesn't surprise me considering the company he kept while in Mac.
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Post by ferro_man on Mar 6, 2018 8:56:22 GMT -6
Jonathan Coachman has been named in a new lawsuit against ESPN in which an ex-employee claims he was “notorious” for sexually harassing women at the company. Former anchor Adrienne Lawrence filed a sexual harassment/discrimination lawsuit against ESPN on Sunday that accuses the company of ignoring her complaints, specifically against SportsCenter host John Buccigross — but Coachman is mentioned as well. The document states: “On or around January 18, 2016, SportsCenter anchor Jonathan Coachman (“Coachman”) emailed Ms. Lawrence offering to provide her with mentorship and providing his cellphone number. When he contacted her via text, he quickly turned a professional conversation into a personal matter, asking her about her musical interests. He was employing the ESPN predators’ playbook. See supra at ¶ 84. Colleagues then cautioned Ms. Lawrence that Coachman was notorious for sexually harassing female employees. After learning that, Ms. Lawrence made an effort to communicate to Coachman that she had a boyfriend, after which she did not hear from him again and he made no offers of mentorship.” Lawrence also claims: “Coachman’s reputation for making unwelcome sexual advances toward women and engaging in other sexually harassing behavior was not a secret. Cary Chow had warned Ms. Lawrence about him when he gave the short list of men at ESPN who were notorious for sexual harassment. Coachman had sent Walsh inappropriate photos of himself and text messages, falsely telling her colleagues that they were romantically involved and that she “wanted” him – another common practice of men at ESPN. See supra at ¶ 13. At least one young production assistant who joined ESPN just out of college had complained to Ms. Lawrence about Coachman making her feel uncomfortable by complimenting her physical appearance and making passes at her. As explained below, when Ms. Lawrence complained to Jack Obringer, Senior Coordinating Producer, Studio Production of ESPN, Inc. that she was being sexually harassed (by another individual), Obringer guessed that the harasser was “Coachman” and indicated that his inappropriate behavior toward women was well-known to management. Nevertheless, Coachman continued to appear in ESPN commercials and on SportsCenter without discipline or accountability until he was quietly dismissed on or around April 26, 2017 via layoff.” WWE issued the following statement to Prowrestling.net on Monday night (during Monday Night Raw) regarding Jonathan Coachman being accused of inappropriate behavior by a former ESPN co-worker: “We take these matters very seriously and are investigating.” |
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Post by thebosma on Mar 7, 2018 20:52:58 GMT -6
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Post by Javo on Mar 8, 2018 9:51:00 GMT -6
How bout people not happy with Bryant winning the Oscar?
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Post by nanatod on Mar 8, 2018 11:39:22 GMT -6
edit: nevermind.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2018 11:40:27 GMT -6
no crossposting facebook comments for double karma!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2018 7:52:49 GMT -6
“It is with profound sadness that we announce the end of Seven Sisters of Sleep.
On Thursday March 8th, the day we were last scheduled to have practice, we learned via a text message and Google search that our rhythm guitar player, Eddie Bermudez, turned himself in several days before for over two dozen felony counts pertaining to child pornography.
According to these charges, he was posing as a 16 year old boy on social media to solicit pictures and videos from underage girls. We were absolutely blind sided by this and left in a state of shock, disgust, sadness, and anger that we are very much feeling now and will likely feel for years to come. We are devastated and left feeling about as betrayed as you can.
We, the remaining members, have to distance ourselves from SSOS. This decision doesn’t come lightly but it was also forced upon us by this situation. We also want to express gratitude to all the fans, bands, and labels who supported us throughout our 9 year run. We know in light of this revelation it won’t be easy to disassociate SSOS with this horrible news going forward but that is nothing compared to the other negatives involved here.”
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Post by sleeping on Mar 13, 2018 9:28:17 GMT -6
WHY IS METAL SO GROSS
I mean I know the answer is "white dudes," but still.
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Post by andrewvb on Mar 14, 2018 8:56:16 GMT -6
YIKES
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Post by teekoh on Mar 14, 2018 8:58:09 GMT -6
What the fuck is that an ad for?
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Post by teekoh on Mar 14, 2018 8:58:51 GMT -6
Also, I'm pretty sure I'd chose "Punch Chris Brown" over like 90% of alternative actions.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2018 9:07:48 GMT -6
Really going out on a limb with the "is it just me..."
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Post by Tweet on Mar 14, 2018 9:24:18 GMT -6
Also, I'm pretty sure I'd chose "Punch Chris Brown" over like 90% of alternative actions. But it says “impossible choices” in the header! |
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Post by alady on Mar 14, 2018 9:29:39 GMT -6
What in the actual hell
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Post by unlikelyjapan on Mar 14, 2018 20:11:26 GMT -6
Really going out on a limb with the "is it just me..." You probably need to be pretty confident you're not the subject of some targeted advertising before posting something like that |
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