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PWR BTTM'S Ben Hopkins Prepares to Release Solo Album & Put Sexual Misconduct Allegations Behind Him

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Pageant, Vice’s music site Noisey declared them “America’s Next Great Rock Band,” and in the days that followed, NPR shined a spotlight on the duo by featuring an advance stream of the record on its website, The New York Times readied a profile, and Rufus Wainwright interviewed them for Billboard.By mid-May, as Hopkins put it, PWR BTTM were canceled.

A series of mostly anonymous social media posts accused Hopkins of rape, assault, “inappropriate sexual contact,” being a “known sexual predator” and “an abuse apologist.”The allegations, which materialized on May 11, the eve of Pageant’s release date, were especially shocking given the safe community that PWR BTTM had built — and which Hopkins had often extolled onstage — as the band rose.

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