Burger Records co-founder and president Lee Rickard has stepped down and divested from the garage rock imprint, which announced "major structural changes" after multiple allegations of sexual misconduct against the Fullerton, California, label's artists and employees emerged on social media over the weekend. "We understand that we will never be able to comprehend the trauma that women have experienced while trying to find a place in the music scene," read a "zero tolerance" statement from Burger posted on Monday night (July 20). "We are profoundly saddened and sickened by the pain suffered at the hands of a toxic male music culture that does not value women as equals.
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