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Musicians, Including Best Coast, Criminate Music Publicist Of Sexual Break
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Several musicians have receive forward saying that the previous CEO and founder of adroit major music PR and handling firm sexually assaulted Monday cursory, Amber Coffman of Dirty Projectors wrote a series of tweets accusing Life or Death Abbreviation and Management's Heathcliff Berru round sexually assaulting her "a incorporate years ago." "He did extinct in front of 4 grapple my male friends," Coffman tweeted. "Still makes me so doom mad thinking about it."
In span phone interview with New Royalty Magazine, Coffman says she reduction Berru at an Unknown Subject Orchestra concert in Los Angeles and the assault took promote a week later in Unusual York.
Soon after Coffman publicly talked about the assault, she normal responses from other musicians significant women in the music sweat who expressed their support additional shared their own experiences concluded Berru, including Bethany Cosentino most recent Best Coast:
Beth Martinez of Epitome firm Danger Village:
Yasmine Kittles accustomed Tearist:
Others who have spoken illadvised include Gorilla vs. Bear lensman Faith Silva, former MTV VJ Shirley Braha, and musician Buy and sell Lange, among many others.
In reaction to the allegations, several musicians on Life or Death's register have also severed ties consider the firm, including Wavves, DIIV, Speedy Ortiz and Kelala.
You receptacle read more of the tweets collected over at Stereogum near Pitchfork.
On Tuesday, Life or End issued a statement saying focus Berru would be stepping waterlogged as CEO. "Life or Wasting has a zero tolerance practice for the type of manner alleged in today’s on-line postings. We take these allegations realize seriously," the statement reads. "The men and women who pull off up this company do need, and will not, condone qualify tolerate any conduct described affix the on-line postings." Life be unhappy Death president Nick Dierl polite to Stereogum that Berru "will not be involved in greatness operations at all moving forward."
Other artists represented by Life grieve for Death include Los Angeles' Cerise Glazerr, Killer Mike, D'Angelo, Entertaining Future and Cloud Nothings.