In the wake of assault allegations first shared secondhand via social media, and then reported on in an anonymous interview with Jezebel, queer punk duo PWR BTTM have been dropped by their management ...

UPDATE: PWR BTTM’s label Polyvinyl released a statement of their own. Ben and Liv here. We want to respond to some very serious allegations that have been made against Ben. The allegations come as a ...

Liv Bruce may have to decide that "there is only room for one in the lifeboat," says an industry veteran. By Gil Kaufman It’s hard to think of a band that has soared and then plummeted as quickly as ...

The never-ending conversation about whether rock music is “dead” tends to hinge on the absence of a certain kind of rock star in contemporary pop music. This mythic person resembles a hybrid of Kurt ...

It took only a few power chords, a sprinkle of glitter and the occasional jokey line — "We can do our makeup in the parking lot / We can get so famous that I might get shot / But right now I'm in the ...

No, seriously. In the space of thirty minutes, singer and multi-instrumentalist Ben Hopkins manages to touch upon a vast array of topics, running every available gamut in the process. Hopkins, who ...

A week ago, the celebrated New York punk band PWR BTTM — a.k.a Liv Bruce and Ben Hopkins, a duo of gender-nonconforming artists in their 20s — was preparing for the triumphant release of a highly ...

Yesterday, the New York-based queer punk band PWR BTTM posted a letter on Facebook, reacting to allegations of improper behavior by its lead singer Ben Hopkins. Though PWR BTTM did not address any ...