The end of ERIC SUNDERMANN's run atop two of music journalism's biggest brands began with this tweet last Saturday: "It’s so wild that {redacted} is able to run an entire digital magazine when hes also running people out of the place because he can’t keep his dick in his pants." Quite a few people, it turned out, knew exactly who "redacted" was. People who had worked for him. People he had worked for. Eighteen women who sent direct messages that day to the tweet's author, writer LAUREN NOSTRO, with stories of their own. Nostro un-redacted Sundermann in another tweet minutes later, and on Monday he was fired by the FADER, where he had been head of content for the past year. Fired on Monday following what was said to be an internal investigation triggered by a tweet on Saturday. That didn't leave much time for investigating. Is there any other way to interpret that timeline but to conclude that Sundermann's alleged behavior was as much an open secret within the company as it was within music Twitter? JEZEBEL's devastatingly detailed account of Sundermann's fall, reported and written by EMILY ALFORD, argues exactly that, and says the same was true at VICE, where Sundermann spent the previous five years as editor of NOISEY. There was a whisper network, she reports, through which young women warned each other about an editorial gatekeeper at two major music sites. There were complaints to the human resources department at Vice. The details and arc of Alford's story are distressingly similar to awful ones that have come out of the film and TV industries and elsewhere in recent years. The milieus are different, the patterns the same. There have been other stories in the music business of course, involving artists, executives, publicists and more. This one hits way too close to home for me. I've never to my knowledge met Sundermann (who's yet to comment publicly on any of the accusations), but he's an editor/writer and our circles have plenty of overlap. I've been sharing his writing for years through this newsletter. His accusers aren't rank strangers to me. And they're currently chatting, no longer in whispers, about Sundermann's former boss, Fader co-founder and publisher ANDY COHN, who is also called out in the Jezebel story and reportedly is the subject of an internal review (a Fader rep denied that earlier this week). The end of Eric Sundermann's run shouldn't have started with a tweet last Saturday. And companies like NBC shouldn't be waiting for other media companies to publish stories to start their own investigations. By the time the first story is published or the first tweet is tweeted, it's way too late. To time to call out bad behavior is now, before someone else does your dirty work for you... Farewell, BEAN... It's FRIDAY and that means new music from LUKE COMBS, FKA TWIGS (belated correction: I told you her album MAGDALENE was coming out two weeks ago but nope, it's today, apologies), DOJA CAT, JACQUEES, LIL MOSEY, MOUNT EERIE, MOOR MOTHER, EMOTIONAL ORANGES, DAVE EAST, CLAMS CASINO, ESOTERIC, TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON, DAVE DOUGLAS, the late DAVID S. WARE, JAMAEL DEAN, SOUNDWALK COLLECTIVE WITH PATTI SMITH, LAIMA LEYTON, ALLEN STONE, GIANT SWAN, ANDY STOTT, SEBASTIAN, RROSE, RANDY RAINBOW, BISHOP NEHRU, REESE LAFLARE, WIKI, YUNGEEN ACE, TAYLOR HAWKINS & THE COATTAIL RIDERS and LESLIE ODOM JR.