Canadian indie rock band The New Pornographers faced an unpleasant dilemma this year after drummer Joseph Seiders' arrest and subsequent conviction on charges of possessing child pornography. After firing Seiders and thinking about it a while, the band has decided to keep the name.

"The day [we found out], we were all like, 'Obviously we can't call ourselves the New Pornographers anymore.' And then time passed," Newman said. …

"A few weeks later, I ran into my friend Zach Djanikian, who played on this record and Continue as a Guest, and I was talking about the band name possibly changing, and he had the first violent reaction, which was, 'No! You can't change your name. You worked too hard for that name,'" he explained. "And I thought, 'Yeah, you're right.'"

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