Over the weekend, multiple anonymous sources brought sexual misconduct allegations against various artists and staff affiliated with the California garage rock label Burger Records. Within days, co-founder and president Lee Rickard resigned, and the label issued a statement announcing “major structural changes” within the company. Now Oakland’s Total Trash Productions, …
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Lydia Night of the Regrettes released a statement Monday accusing SWMRS drummer Joey Armstrong, son of Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong, of emotional abuse and sexual misconduct. Night wrote about the nature of her relationship with Joey Armstrong when she was 16 and 17 years old. Armstrong responded with a …
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More good news on progress toward an escape route from this pandemic: On Monday, vaccine researchers at the University of Oxford and the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca announced the results of a “Phase 1/2 trial”, suggesting that their product could lead to immunity without causing serious harm. Similar results, but on …
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Burger Records, Fullerton, California’s garage record label, record store and festival organizer, released a statement tonight announcing “major structural changes,” including the resignation of co-founder and President Lee Rickard. The label said in the statement that the restructuring occurs in response to “a good deal of accusations [that] it came …
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John Beigel’s problem was that not enough Covid-19 people died. Not that he wanted them to, of course. It’s just that, as dire as the pandemic has been, it hasn’t killed as many people as it seemed. And Beigel, a researcher at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, …
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