{"id":2167112,"date":"2025-11-19T19:29:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T19:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2167112"},"modified":"2025-11-19T19:29:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T19:29:22","slug":"the-new-pornographers-to-keep-their-name-after-drummers-arrest-for-possession-of-child-pornography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-new-pornographers-to-keep-their-name-after-drummers-arrest-for-possession-of-child-pornography\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Pornographers to keep their name after drummer&#8217;s arrest for possession of child pornography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"ttsIcon-cIBsl\"><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 3 minutes<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"toggletip-tKLKF ttsToggleTip-DSCNQ\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"toggletipInfoButton-yoX4E\" aria-label=\"More information\" aria-controls=\":R89qnl:\" aria-describedby=\":R89qnl:\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" focusable=\"false\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"M11 7H13V9H11V7ZM11 11H13V17H11V11ZM12 2C6.48 2 2 6.48 2 12C2 17.52 6.48 22 12 22C17.52 22 22 17.52 22 12C22 6.48 17.52 2 12 2ZM12 20C7.59 20 4 16.41 4 12C4 7.59 7.59 4 12 4C16.41 4 20 7.59 20 12C20 16.41 16.41 20 12 20Z\" fill=\"black\"\/><\/svg><\/button><\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Vancouver indie-rock band the New Pornographers revealed they won&#8217;t be changing their name, despite drummer Joseph Seiders&#8217;s arrest for child pornography and related charges in April.<\/p>\n<p>Seiders, who has been sentenced to three years in prison, was dropped from the group after his arrest. However, band leader A.C. Newman recently explained to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/new-pornographers-interview-drummer-arrested-1235466109\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rolling Stone<\/a> that after some back and forth, the group&#8217;s name would remain unchanged.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<!-- -->The day [we found out], we were all like, &#8216;Obviously we can\u2019t call ourselves the New Pornographers anymore.&#8217; And then time passed,&#8221; Newman said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A few weeks later, I ran into my friend Zach Djanikian, who played on this record and<!-- -->\u00a0<em>Continue as a Guest<\/em>, and I was talking about the band name possibly changing, and he had the first violent reaction, which was, &#8216;No! You can\u2019t change your name. You worked too hard for that name,'&#8221; he explained. &#8220;And I thought, &#8216;Yeah, you\u2019re right.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The band is named after <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8ZSd6p3dk3k\" target=\"_blank\">The Pornographers, a Japanese film<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>WATCH | The New Pornographers perform Challengers:<\/strong><\/em><span><span class=\"youtube\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The New Pornographers - &quot;Challengers&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bHWWWa8EvzI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The more I thought about it, it just seemed like a bad-faith argument [for changing the name]. I named it after a Japanese movie by Sh\u014dhei Imamura [1966\u2019s<!-- -->\u00a0<em>The Pornographers<\/em>], so, should we go to the estate of Sh\u014dhei Imamura and say, &#8216;You should change the name of that movie because there was a band that named themselves after your movie, and this happened?'&#8221; Newman said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And from a purely pragmatic point of view, if we changed our name, people would go, &#8216;Who is this new band? Oh, it\u2019s the New Pornographers, they changed their name. Why did they change their name? Because of this.&#8217; Or, we were gonna change the spelling of the name,&#8221; he said. &#8220;&#8216;Well, why did they change the spelling of the name? Because of this.&#8217; It seemed to me, if you don\u2019t want to talk about it, the best thing you could do was just continue with our name. I\u2019m sure I\u2019m going to be saying this 50 times in the next year.&#8221;<!-- --> <\/p>\n<p><em><strong>WATCH | The New Pornographers perform High Ticket Attractions:<\/strong><\/em><span><span class=\"youtube\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The New Pornographers | High Ticket Attractions | First Play Live\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9pLe0YfpLA8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>When asked if the band would speak to Seiders again, Newman said he doesn&#8217;t think there&#8217;s anything he has to say to him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It f&#8211;king sucks that he dragged us down with him as much as he could,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The New Pornographers are gearing up to release a new album next year, and drummer Charley Drayton, who has performed with artists including Neil Young and the Rolling Stones, stepped in to record with the group.<\/p>\n<p>However, Drayton will not join the group on its upcoming U.S. tour. Okkervil River<!-- -->\u2019s<!-- -->\u00a0Will Sheff will drum with the band as they perform across the states in April and May 2026.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.cbc.ca \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. Vancouver indie-rock band the New Pornographers revealed they won&#8217;t be changing their name, despite drummer Joseph Seiders&#8217;s arrest for child pornography and related charges in April. 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