T he New Pornographers were close to finishing their next album this past April “when all the quote-unquote shit exploded,” A.C. Newman, leader of the revered indie band, tells Rolling Stone .

The band got word that Joseph Seiders, their drummer for the past decade, had been arrested in Palm Desert, California , on child pornography and other related charges. According to a police statement, an 11-year-old boy told authorities that on April 7, an unknown man had recorded him on a cell phone while he was using the bathroom at a fast-food restaurant. Two days later, an employee at that same restaurant called the police about a man “entering and exiting the restroom with juvenile males at the business.”

Police identified Seiders as the suspect and arrested him. He was subsequently c

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