The Posies End a 35-Year Run After Sexual Misconduct Accusations Against Co-Founder Ken Stringfellow
Chris Willman Music WriterThe Posies, a Seattle band that found alternative radio and MTV success in the 1990s, has split up after allegations of sexual misconduct were made by multiple women against co-founder Ken Stringfellow, leading his on-and-off musical partner of the last 35 years, Jon Auer, to declare he believed the women and was quitting the band.A history of Stringfellow’s alleged misconduct was laid out in an investigative story published Monday on the website of KUOW, Seattle’s NPR station, which said its two reporters had interviewed 20 people and reviewed dozens of medical records, emails and texts to verify certain details of the disturbing stories recounted by three women.“I left the Posies very quickly,” Auer told KUOW in