The Daily Beast
Law Rocks Global/YouTube The top lawyer at President Donald Trump’s MAGA-fied Kennedy Center has been accused of trying to get his own amateur cover band a gig there. Elliot Berke, who serves as general counsel at the Kennedy Center, pushed to book his own cover band, The DePlorables, for a slot at the center’s Speakeasy jazz-style lounge last fall, according to three people familiar with the matter who spoke to Politico . The band— self-described as “the worst band you’ve ever heard”—is an aging dad rock group that leans hard into 1970s glam and punk covers. Formed in 2019 after a one-off charity show, the group has mostly stuck to safe territory: legal conferences, fundraisers, and events like Law Rocks charity. Their sets reportedly feature deep cuts so obscure that, by their own admission, “audiences rarely recognize what they are playing.” Read more at The Daily Beast.
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