JENN PELLY's longread for PITCHFORK on the imminent return of the indie-rock band PINEGROVE, which spent 10 months in seclusion after an accusation of "sexual coercion" against frontman EVAN STEPHENS HALL, is a great piece of journalism and an important, nuanced, complicated read about accountability and justice in the #MeToo era. Emphasis on "complicated." I have mixed feelings about it and I can make no guarantee as to how anyone else will, or should, receive it. It was met with a mixture of praise, contempt and nuanced contemplation on indie-rock Twitter. Pelly is an avowed fan of the band, and her piece began as a planned profile before Hall was publicly accused. She has written insightfully and unflinchingly about abusive behavior and misogyny in a music scene she grew up idolizing. She believed, before the allegations, that Pinegrove "pointed in a better direction" than many of its peers in that scene. She starts with a story about guitarist NICK LEVINE giving her a tattoo, just over a year ago. She gives Hall plenty of space to talk through his experiences as a manipulative/abusive boyfriend, as a #MeToo target and as a feminist trying to reconcile his beliefs with his actions while also trying to continue his career. She's skeptical of the motivations of SHERIDAN ALLEN, the founder of the musician therapy organization PUNK ROCK TALKS, who served as a mediator between Allen and his accuser (Pelly isn't alone in this), but she doesn't minimize the accusation itself. At least I don't think she does; I assume some readers will disagree. She writes movingly, in a very personal way, about the band's music, which I'm quite sure not everyone is prepared to read a mere 10 months after Hall acknowledged the allegations and removed himself from public view. That's the same length of time it took LOUIS CK to go from allegations to controversial comeback performance. Hall originally promised to take a year off, at the request of his victim. The victim, who declined to speak to Pelly, reportedly approved the band's album release and touring plans. Whether the world will approve it is an entirely different, and valid, question, one that is largely unexplored here. Pelly writes that she initially didn't want to finish the piece, "But to ignore the story ultimately felt like a denial—of nuance, of truth, of the complications of the world we live in now." There are a number of ways one might respond to that, whether in approval or not, and normally I would search for one. But I'm not interested in trying to have the last word here. I'm not sure there's a last word to be had... Our friend ANDY WEISSMAN is curious why there are 90 tickets available on STUBHUB, as of this writing, to PHISH's New Year's Eve show at MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, which doesn't go on sale until mid-October. And by curious, he means, "Ticketing is so so so sleazy." Does anyone on any side of the ticketing biz, from promoters to venues to sellers and resellers, want to take a crack at a response?... BILL MURRAY makes his GRAND OLE OPRY debut... KANYE WEST may not be the most observant film viewer... RIP KATHERINE HOOVER and DALE BARCLAY.