Burger Records, the LA based garage rock label & record store, announced on July 18th that they will be going through “major structural changes” as many performers and others involved in the Burger community have come forward with numerous stories of sexual misconduct as well as details of the grooming of underage girls as a well-known and protected practice of both employees and signed artists.
These changes come in light of a recently created Instagram account, @LURED_BY_BURGER_RECORDS, which has been posting allegations of sexual misconduct and predatory behavior against Burger Records employees, as well as members of acts on the label’s roster.
You can read the first substantive post below:
As these allegation have come to light, the label has quickly announced that its founder and co-founder will be stepping down and moving into transitional roles respectively with Jessa Zapor-Gray, who has previously represented Lisa Loeb, POTUS, and The Aquabats, on board to assume the role of interim label president. The label announced that it would no longer be affiliated with The Burger Records Store and that a name change BRGR RECS as well as an all-woman faction, BRGRRRL, would be implemented immediately in an effort to distance itself from its previous name and promote growth and support for the musicians and fans affected. Read the labels full statement here.
This is a developing story. Information may change rapidly as more details come to light.
