Indie-rocker Joe Seiders has been arrested on baby pornography fees. The New Pornographers drummer was taken into custody on April 9 after reviews have been made towards him.
The Riverside County Sheriff’s Workplace launched a press launch that detailed what led to his arrest.
“On Monday, April 7, 2025, at 3:55 p.m., deputies assigned to the Palm Desert Sheriff’s Station were dispatched to a suspicious circumstance in the 73000 block of Dinah Shore Drive, Palm Desert,” the report learn. “Upon arrival, deputies spoke with an 11-year-old male who stated an unknown male adult recorded him on a cell phone while he was using the restroom at the location.”
Two days later, authorities acquired one other name from the identical location.
“An employee stated a male was entering and exiting the restroom with juvenile males at the business. Believing the male was the suspect from the previous incident, law enforcement was contacted,” the report learn. “Upon arrival, deputies located the suspect, identified as 44-year-old Joseph Seiders of Palm Desert, and took him into custody.”
After serving search warrants for Seiders’ “residence, vehicle and cell phone,” proof was discovered implicating the musician “in the two reported incidents, along with additional crimes, including possessing child pornography.”
Seiders is now booked in an Indio jail on fees of possession of kid pornography, annoying/molesting a toddler, invasion of privateness and tried invasion of privateness.
The investigation is ongoing with officers believing “there may be additional victims.”
In response to the Guardian, he’s being held on a $1 million bail and is due in courtroom on April 22.
The New Pornographers was based in 1997 in Vancouver. Seiders’ bandmates issued a press release through Instagram after the information broke.
“Everyone in the band is absolutely shocked, horrified and devastated by the news of the charges against Joe Seiders — and we have immediately severed all ties with him,” they wrote. “Our hearts go out to everyone who has been impacted by his actions.”
Seiders joined the indie group in 2014 alongside vocalists Neko Case and Carl Newman, John Collins, Todd Fancey and Kathryn Calder.
Their newest single, “Ballad of the Last Payphone,” dropped on April 2.
“This song was inspired by a Raymond Carver story called ‘Fat’, and tells the story of a person visiting the last payphone in NYC where it currently sits, in the Museum of the City of New York,” the band defined on Instagram on the time.
“The narrator doesn’t know why they are so fascinated by it, but to us it should be obvious. Obvious to me, at least.”
For those who or somebody is affected by any of the problems raised on this story, name the Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-330-0226.
