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Zex's Jo Capitalcide opens defamation lawsuit against Magic Bullet Records

Canadian punk band Zex recently made headlines when vinyl pressings of Beyonce’s album Lemonade were mistakenly pressed with songs from Zex’s album Uphill Battle, released this year on Magic Bullet Records. They quickly made headlines again, when Magic Bullet dropped the band after claiming they received several emails accusing guitarist Jo Capitalcide of sexual assault in a now-deleted post on their website.

Billboard now reports that Capitalcide has opened a defamation lawsuit against Magic Bullet Records. He told Billboard over email: “Concerning the allegations of sexual assault on women made by our ex record label, Magic Bullet Records, I denounce them as false and have undertaken a defamation lawsuit this week for spreading false information about me and Zex. There are no charges laid on me.” Further information on the lawsuit has yet to be revealed.

Magic Bullet’s initial statement also stated that they received “information shared first-hand by singer Gretchen Steel to the label about Jo’s behavior in their open relationship (which corroborates one of the accounts sent to the label by a survivor within the past 24 hours),” but Steel denied the claims.