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Thursday, Sep 2nd / 9pm Village Green Productions Presents:
Heypenny Heypenny is a indie rock band based in Nashville, Tennessee. They cite influences such as Wilco, Beatles, Coldplay, Radiohead and Elliott Smith. Kyle Andrews "Years ago, Kyle Andrews traded Chicago's bone-chilling winters for Nashville's constantly flowing spring of music. Ever since, Kyle has been polishing gems unearthed in the cluttered corners of his bedroom studio. His first official album, Amos In Ohio (2006), set the bar for the thinking-person's indie-pop. Kyle proved that DIY-style production didn't have to lack depth, and his intimate songwriting style (sometimes emotional, sometimes enigmatic, always engaging) delivered tracks that were so fun to sing along with, you didn't mind that they were stuck in your head for weeks. WXPN dubbed Amos as "instantly memorable... packed with infectious hooks" and praised Kyle's "ear for melody that's as strong as his songwriting ability." Shannon Pelcher 15 W. Girard Ave. Philadelphia PA $8 / 21+ Friday, Sep 3rd / 7pm
Rangda Many centuries ago on the island of Java lived the witch queen Mahendradatta. When she was exiled from her kingdom for practicing her dark arts, she took revenge by using her witchcraft to spread chaos among the people. In defeat, she was transformed into Rangda, the demon queen of the leyaks. Rangda leads an army of witches in endless battle against Barong, the force of good. When witch-gods collide, it might sound something like this.
Six Organs of Admittance…Richard Bishop…Chris Corsano. Riders of the apocalypse, it’s them vs. us. After absorbing their uber-holy dynamo, you’ll be prepared to join up with these wraiths, making it all of us against…well, whomever’s fool enough to stand in our way. To evil!
Rangda’s been building up behind the scenes for some time now. As label mates and members of an exclusive mutual admiration society, Sir Rick and Kid Chasny thirsted for a conflagration involving two electric guitars plus a drummer. In such an environment requiring excellent survival skills as well as composition and improvisation rhythms, who better than Chris Corsano to work the skins? On paper, this was colossal, but actually getting everyone together proved awesomely impossible, with each man in a different city sprawled across the vastness of the United States — not to mention each man’s diverse state of mind sprawled across the vastness of inner space.
And so, time passed. Chuckling, the guitar men dreamed of visiting Rangda on our world, working figures on their necks in anticipation. Finally, with the desperate recklessness of the ancient witchsoul herself, they booked a live show, followed by a studio session with Seattle sound guru Scott Colburn. Beforehand, a mere ninety minutes was allotted for the three to further discuss ideas and play together for the very first time. What would happen?
What do you think happened, stupid? Of course they planted a garden of lyricism seeded with several compositions and several improvisations! Placed end-to-end, the six pieces of the Rangda saga (part the first) rock from splintering onslaught to soulful meditation and back again with manifest precision — this was a planned attack. Unceasing battery slides suddenly into ritual form with elemental ease. The fretworks of Richard Bishop and Ben Chasny split time while Corsano shapes the air around them. Each players moves as part of the whole of Rangda, and whether surging, cycling, or in pastoral, they are never less than explosive. This initial foray flies under the banner of FALSE FLAG.
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The Major Stars Nobody shreds like Major Stars -— they probably couldn’t if they wanted to. The Boston-based sextet (led by outsider/psych record label owners Wayne Rogers and Kate Biggar of Twisted Village) packs three full-time guitarists, all of whom, it’s fair to say, play lead. While on past Major Stars records, songwriting was treated as a necessary evil, on the group’s latest, Return to Form, precision and concision prove just as important as the guitar squall. Kohoutek "People interested in music that defies the pop song convention, music that challenges that part of your brain that lies dormant during most aural experiences, need a band like Kohoutek. This [collective] began their wildly meandering journey across the more peripheral realms of free-form psych rock a few years back and from the very beginning they seemed determined to try to cross swathes of interstellar drone, guitar squall and loose, slowly evolving improvisations of drum and bass grooves and squelchy electronics with tapestries of gravitationally flowing darkness. What we get is a sonic bag that is raw, gorgeous, loud, dreamy, dissonant and mystical at the same time, somehow managing to transcend all sorts of seemingly limited genre barriers. Dedicated followers of bands such as the Spacious Mind, SubArachnoid Space and Ash Ra Tempel will for sure want to check these cats out, with a musical style that at its best rarely goes wrong in the live setting." (Mats Gustafsson) Chris Forsyth Chris Forsyth is known for hypnotic compositions and solo performances on 6- and 12-string guitars that assimilate minimalism and psychedelia with art rock, folk, and blues influences. He has performed widely in Europe and the US, having toured with such like-minded artists as Träd Gräs och Stenar, Steve Gunn, Ignatz, and Es. He is a founding member (with Jaime Fennelly and Fritz Welch) of gothic junk folk expressionists Peeesseye, and a member of the elusive experimental group Phantom Limb & Bison. Other notable collaborators have included guitarist Tetuzi Akiyama, trumpeter Nate Wooley, Koen Holtkamp, singer and songwriter Meg Baird, and choreographers Miguel Gutierrez and RoseAnne Spradlin. He released his most recent solo LP, Dreams, in September 2009 on Evolving Ear and it quickly went out of print. Other recent releases include the Dirty Pool LP (Ultramarine) with Farfisa organist Shawn Edward Hansen, and a long list of Peeesseye projects, including the Peeesseye + Talibam! collab on CD (Invada) and 2XLP (Smeraldina-Rima), and their newest studio LP Pestilence & Joy, released in July on Evolving Ear. Forsyth's next solo LP, titled Paranoid Cat, features contributions from members of Peeesseye, Mountains, D. Charles Speer, and others. It will be out in fall 2010. He is the caretaker of Evolving Ear and lives in the City of Philadelpha, USA. M Room 15 W. Girard Ave. Philadelphia PA $10 / 21+ Saturday, Sep 4th / 9pm
Donovan Rice "There was no Revolver without Help nor Help without a Hard Day’s Night. Influenced by talented musician parents, understanding and listening to each Beatles album in order was a life lesson that undeniably shaped the song writing of this respectable musician based out of Philadelphia. One could argue that Rice’s unique melodies are not your run of the mill. In fact, the unpredictability of his sculpted melodies coupled with inspirational and heartfelt lyrics revivify with each listen. Each song walks the line of persona straddling ambition and every part labored until the striking result is presented so naturally you’d believe it was crafted effortlessly." Donovan Rice - Sink This Ship - Available on iTunes Seann Branchfield and the Unnamed Band "Symphonic rock artist, Seann Branchfield, grew up in Newport, OR and learned piano at a young age. After majoring in music composition in college, he moved to New York for for grad school in music. In the process of songwriting and performing as a solo artist starting in 2007, a "Seann Branchfield and the Unnamed Band" was formed in 2009. All of the music is orchestrated and Seann has performed with numerous classical musicians both with the band and without, including a performance with full orchestra in May 2010. The first album is almost complete and ready for distribution." Sunday's Best 15 W. Girard Ave. Philadelphia PA $5 / 21+ Thursday, Sep 9th / 8pm Alabaster Tongue Booking Presents:
Gorevette Currently on tour with Blondie and playing the M-Room on one of their nights off!
Nikki Corvette, the original Rock'N'Roll Girl from Detroit, meets Amy Gore, Gore Gore Girls' leading lady.......
When Robert Matheu of Creem Magazine introduced the two at Spaceland in Los Angeles in 2004, stars aligned. Corvette and Gore quickly became kindred spirits and started writing songs together once Corvette moved from LA to Detroit in 2005. Gorevette now becomes part of Detroit's new R'n'R era. Lianna Castillo (Gore Gore Girls) and Al King (Powertrane) round out the lineup. Listen and watch carefully... history is being made.
"Bubble-gum and hip-shakeable hooks meet ruthless, pure-firestorm guitar ecstasy" - Real Detroit Weekly
The Midnight Beat Philadelphias' own female fronted garage punk, rock n roll band.
Drawing influence from every great era rock n roll, from the Rolling Stones to The Runaways. This band has been playing some great shows in its two year existence. Recently they have shared the stage with The Black Hollies, The Yum Yums, Magic Christian, Paul Collins Beat, Holly Golightly, The Biters, The Shalitas and more.
Debut 7" out on Creep Records this November. two more tba 15 W. Girard Ave. Philadelphia PA $10 / 21+ Friday, Sep 10th / 8pm Village Green Productions Presents:
Blayer PointDuJour Sample-heavy punk and dub, with spacey soul elements. Add in his angelic voice and poignant lyrical sensibility and the results are akin to Gnarls Barkley meeting Big Audio Dynamite. Adam and Dave's Bloodline Adam & Dave's Bloodline, a band who has cruised the Philly scene in recent years, are shape-shifters. The band has never shied away from genre-bashing techniques in the past - one of their older songs called "The Traveler", Petersen once said, was essentially fused together from the Crystals' "Then He Kissed Me" and Bob Dylan and the Band's "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" . These guys deliver rock and pop with guitar hooks aplenty. At times sounding radio-ready while unabashedly indie-rock, A&D's Bloodline are a solid troupe of noisemakers. Faux Slang Faux Slang layers vocal harmonies reminiscent of 60's pop over heavy synth, kinetic drumming, and dynamic guitars that border on ambient. While drawing influence from bands like The Velvet Underground and Yo La Tengo, Faux Slang incorporates post-rock and post-punk with rhythms that are infectious enough for the tastes of today 15 W. Girard Ave. Philadelphia PA $10 / 21+ Saturday, Sep 11th / 7pm Village Green Productions Presents:
Elsinore "Elsinore play honest, mid-00s OC pop with a dose of soaring, arena-rock tendencies. Think of an indie Death Cab (ha!), pre-TV deals and celeb-marriages, making sonically perfect, big anthems. Think what it must’ve been like to see Coldplay before they were huge, maybe playing clubs around the UK on one of their first tours. They rely on keyboard and guitar driven arrangements, meticulously put together. Kind of like Headlights but with less twee and more swagger. Or Envy Corps; their melodies are huge..." El Fuego El Fuego is a 5 piece Philly rock and roll band. Songwriter Joe Reno blends 60's pop/garage rock, old school power-pop and '77 style punk with energy, passion, and a warm blanket of love and kindness. This fire is proving to be a glimmer of hope in a world filled with darkness and shit. Mini Mammoth Three Philly-area musicians got together after a hiatus from playing live music, with a goal of delivering catchy, danceable indiepop to the ears of the masses. They practiced. They wrote songs. They decided it was a band. M Room 15 W. Girard Ave. Philadelphia PA $8 / 21+ Wednesday, Sep 15th / 8pm Village Green Productions Presents:
The Parlotones From Johannesburg, South Africa--The Parlotones are known for their electric, polished stage performances delivered against the backdrop of their deftly crafted and darkly romantic lyrics. Their sound, described as alternative in their formative years and influenced by the likes of Muse, Radiohead and the Smiths, has evolved substantially becoming more refined and focused with each album. The band experiment sonically with their sound and various structures are utilised in their songs, including the typical Doo-Wop cycle or traditional Folk structure. t took the band’s debut album ‘Radiocontrolledrobot’ two years to reach Gold status and their follow up ‘A World Next Door To Yours’ achieved this in a couple of months. Three months later the album was certified Platinum. Testimony to just how much the band has grown over the past few years.’ A World Next Door To Yours’ remained on the South African top 20 sales chart for more than twelve months and, with sales in excess of 80 000, is currently South Africa’s biggest selling rock album of this decade – having achieved Double Platinum Status. The album spurned seven radio singles, a very unique situation. 15 W. Girard Ave. Philadelphia PA $12 / 21+ Purchase Advance Tickets! Friday, Sep 17th / 9pm
Karmakani Mastermind behind the legendary PSI parties and a DJ of unmatched skill, Pat has rocked dancefloors across the country with his own signature blend of auditory stimulation. His style spans the trance spectrum ranging from the harder edged South African twilight sound to smooth melodic daytime progressive, with elements of electro, minimal, and tech house. After six years spent collecting music and honing his skills in NYC, Pat returned to his hometown of Philadelphia in 2006 to help take Philly trance to the next level. A true veteran of the trance scene with an ear for tunes that clean one’s head and compel the body to dance, Pat’s versatility, effortless mixing technique, and energetic track selection have combined to make him a crowd favorite. Smooth yet crunchy, raw yet refined, psychedelicious and immensely satisfying. The Sound of the Philly Underground!
He has had the honor of playing alongside some of the biggest names in the international psytrance scene including Absolum, Hux Flux, Etnica, Shift, Artifakt, Phatmatix, Protoculture, Atomic Pulse, Deviant Species, Aphid Moon, Dick Trevor, Rastaliens, Braincell, Human Blue, Reefer Decree, Gus Till, Chromatone, Random, Naked Tourist, Penta, Horror Place, Polyphonia, Mubali, Electrypnose, Lemurians, Yab-Yum, Dejan, Jellyheadz, Phase Phour, Astrometrix, Onnomon, Loud, Psymmetrix, Kenji Williams, Earworm, Shapestatic, Loopus in Fabula, Ajja, Zuloop, Fragletrollet, Aes Dana, and Solar Fields. Kilowatts James Watts boasts an impressive and expansive discography of styles and collaborations that dates back to the early 90s demoscene and has steadily progressed forward towards making some of the most influential electronic albums to date. Having worked with some of the greatest minds in the industry, including Bluetech, Bil Bless, Tanner Ross, Peter Van Ewijk, and labels Native State Records, Mothership, Dependent, and Thoughtless Music, he has greeted the challenges in the music business with inspired optimism, smiles, and an infectious easy going attitude. In 2009, he played an extensive tour schedule in cities all over the US and Canada. In the same year we saw his 6th solo album ‘Undercurrent’, the debut Voodeux album ‘The Paranormal’, and the 2nd KiloWatts & Vanek album ‘Focus & Flow’. It’s fair to say the man lives and breathes electronic music.
His work embraces the bulk of electronic genres, including breaks, IDM, techno, and downtempo. His albums on Artificial Music Machine that are full of visionary dimensions, fusing together a dexterous knowledge of sound synthesis, deep emotional articulation, and solid melodic intuition. Peppered throughout these monumental statements are releases with class labels such as Somnia, Thoughtless Music, and his own outlet, KiloWatts Music, that celebrate his adept technical expertise, often bringing a whirlwind of digital wizardry in the form of glitches and edits. The list of projects and collaborations continues to grow, but some of the highlights are: Skeetaz, with breakbeat cohort Bil Bless brings hard-hitting digital glitched-out psychedelic funk. His collaboration with singer Peter Van Ewijk is a mystical ride with vocals and guitar, nested atop edgy electronica. With Tanner Ross, an eerie style of dark techno is born under the name Voodeux for Dirtybird’s techno sublabel Mothership. Fellow Philadelphian MC Amagine delivers consciousness-driven motifs in their digital glitch-hop project called Super Galactic Expansive. Billy Boogie Djing for over a decade now, boogie has changed styles a few times as his music tastes were altered. Starting out way back DJing techno on vinyl, he’s made his way through “hard trance” and techy house to finally reside with a type of driving, full power psy trance. boogie has been lucky enough to have shared the stage with the likes of Ajja, Infected Mushroom, Yab Yum, Cosmosis, Mexican Trance Mafia, Transdriver, Grapes of Wrath, Jelly Headz, Parus, Earworm, Primordial Ooze, Onkel Dunkel, and more. 15 W. Girard Ave. Philadelphia PA $10 / 21+ Saturday, Sep 18th / 9pm Village Green Productions Presents:
+/- {Plus/Minus} NYC act +/- {Plus/Minus} was originally conceived in 2001 as a vehicle for the songs of Versus guitarist James Baluyut, but the act quickly evolved into a full-fledged band, with the addition of fellow Versus guitarist/vocalist Patrick Ramos and drummer Chris Deaner. This new incarnation of +/- {Plus/Minus} was an entirely original construct, layering wistful pop with dynamic and complex arrangements and fusing rich, dense guitar sounds with polyrhythms drummed, strummed and programmed. Audible In Simple Intervals is the second album by Philadelphia 6-piece band Audible. Recorded in songwriter Mike Kennedy's home studio (i.e, his bedroom), this ten-song follow-up to Audible’s 2005 Polyvinyl Records debut Sky Signal documents the sound of an unlikely band growing up and moving beyond their early sound. Intervals sees Audible's songwriting becoming more ambitious, retaining its off-kilter sense of melody while reaching towards more robust arrangements and greater sonic texturing. With influences ranging from the clean pop precision of Fleetwood Mac to the ragged guitar interplay of 90s indie legends Polvo (both referenced in two song titles), In Simple Intervals is louder, and quieter, than their previous music. It is the sound of a band challenging, and affirming, their love of making songs. Ghosts in the Valley "A three piece Philadelphia band fueled by Fugazi-esque bass lines, Dinosaur Jr. style vocals and a lack of attention span over three minutes. The result is a ‘reckless fun’ in rock music somewhat lost since the likes of the Replacements." Philadelphia PA $10 / 21+ Purchase Advance Tickets! Sunday, Sep 19th / 7pm Village Green Productions Presents:
Hallelujah The Hills The band's ensemble structure (cello, trumpet, and melodica) and learned lyricism echoes the stage-packing sounds of Arcade Fire, Danielson, Bright Eyes, and Decemberists, while its shambolic, maximalist barroom aura recalls Robert Pollard, another songwriter infrequently at a loss for words. Old Love After playing in Philly fixture Bottom of the Hudson and briefly touring with Brooklyn's Black Acid, Old Love – Will Chambers’ current project – is a departure from the indie sludge of former efforts. Relying on only guitars, bells, vocals and the occasional snippet of found sound, his inaugural EP, My Silver Jubilee, is five carefully constructed songs inspired by nature and books about it, literature and popular histories of yesteryear. Finger-picked guitars provide both melody and rhythm while hushed vocals channel an intimacy that avoids being confessional. Recorded with an inborn ‘beg, borrow, or steal’ approach, My Silver Jubilee was constructed with a number of hand-me-down instruments, a handmade guitar and an outdated digital recorder. The recordings of these motley tools were mixed and mastered by Steve Gretz (Goodnight, States) and in March of 2010, My Silver Jubilee was self-released, initially as a free digital download and later as a short run CD. Chambers is currently playing live shows as Old Love accompanied by a friend on glockenspiel while working on a larger collection of songs – some of which will be recorded, others which will only be played in secret and still others which will be broken into pieces and put back together in shapes entirely new. 15 W. Girard Ave. Philadelphia PA $8 / 21+ Tuesday, Oct 5th / 7pm
Uz Jsme Doma Over the course of its existence, Uz Jsme Doma has received all kinds of labels for the music that it plays: intellectual punk, Slavic tone provocation, African music, orchestral punk, funky punk, ska, inspiration by Uriah Heep, Gregorian chorus, melodic avant-garde and plenty of others. The group has continually resisted being placed into any of these categories, making use of an ever more diverse and expanding range of mediums, which in their use generate a compact, unified, and unmistakable effect...They dedicate all their energy and fantasy towards the goal of deserving that most simple of labels: good and meaningful music. Zuby Nehty HISTORY Of PLYN-DYBBUK-ZUBY NEHTY: a Prague women’s band. I. PLYN/THE GAS: Turn On the Gas, the Gas Will Turn You On. In summer 1980 Hanka and Pavla performed their songs for fellow laborers on a school hop-picking brigade. Marka joined the duo, adding fist pounding piano techniques, professional vocals and dramatic persona. Hanka switched guitar for drums. The band was based on friendship, books, hitch-hiking and playful challenging boys to wrestling matches. Songs materialized in outbursts of laughter. First gigs were played at clubs Strahov 07, Euridika and alternative music festivals. II. DYBBUK: The name was taken up after The Gas got blacklisted in 1983. In 1984 saxophonist and flautist Kateřina Nejepsová joined, guitarist Eva Trnková in 1985. Dybbuk played at festivals Vokaliza, Rockfest etc, and clubs Chmelnice, Opatov, Rokoska, etc. In 1986 their five songs were released on Panton's series ‘Rock Debut.’ Then Eva, Kateřina and Hanka left for a professional girl band Panika and Dybbuk stopped existing. III. ZUBY NEHTY: Pavla and Marka started Zuby Nehty/Tooth and Nail with a poet Nada Bilincová in 1987. Tomas Mika and Michal Pokorny joined on saxophones and Jan Lorenc on drums. The formation performed at Slunecnice and Lucerna. Mira Wanek of Uz Jsme Doma proposed in 1991 to produce Dybbuk songs for Punc, and the original set-up (Marka Mikova, Katerina Jircikova, Pavla Slaba, Hana Repova and Eva Trnkova) decided to continue with a new repertoire. The band toured Europe, especially Germany. The first Zuby Nehty album Utíkej/Running came out in 1993, followed by the Král vysílá své vojsko/Red Rover from 1995, Dítkám/For the Children in 1997, and Loďodplouvá/The Ship is Sailing Away in 1999. The band produced a film and several videos for Czech TV, theatre soundtracks and a book for poetry for Mata. In 2000 Zuby Nehty stopped rehearsing and met occasionally for recording soundtracks for Marka’s theatric productions. In 2003 Indies Records released a double CD Best of/Rarities. Rarities include four theatre soundtracks, relics by the "dammed" poet Naďa, and ‘up our sleeve’ - Marka and Pavla on basses and Kat on flute and sax. The group played at special occasions, e.g. the release of digitalized film Hudba Praha 85 at Archa Theatre, various benefits and festivals like Mikulov and Unijazz events. In 2010 decision was made to start rehearsing the piled-up songs in the band members' drawers. Romek Hanzlik’s agency AMP signed the band to regular concerts, including participation in Czech Center in New York street festival October 2, 2010, and first US tour.
15 W. Girard Ave. Philadelphia PA $8 / 21+ Thursday, Oct 7th / 9pm Village Green Productions Presents:
Scout Niblett On a surface level, this music can resemble PJ Harvey on Rid of Me or Nirvana on In Utero, both of which were also engineered by Niblett's collaborator Steve Albini. The substance is closer to Cat Power's Moon Pix and the early albums by the reclusive songwriter Jandek. Like them, Niblett has a way of making you hang on her every note, and making her guitar strings sound like some kind of fragile tether to sanity. Her voice is expressive and raw, shifting between wounded soulfulness and unhinged fury. Holy Sons From Portland, Or Ladies Auxiliary Spectral country and soul from Philadelphia 15 W. Girard Ave. Philadelphia PA $10 / 21+ Purchase Advance Tickets! Friday, Oct 15th / 9pm Sunny Day Music Presents:
The Ataris Pop Punk from California, Est. 1997 Don't Panic The Great Explainer 15 W. Girard Ave. Philadelphia PA $12 / 21+ Purchase Advance Tickets! Friday, Oct 22nd / 9pm VIllage Green Productions Presents:
Rocky Votolato “After a casual listen, it might be easy to lump Rocky Votolato in with the downtrodden likes of Conor Oberst and Elliott Smith. But his songwriting is a bit more triumphant than theirs: Votolato would rather pull himself out of a gutter than wallow in it, focusing instead on the victory before the misery." -NPR Ha Ha Tonka "Novel Sounds is violent, literate, unapologetic Southern rock. With its angelic organ and snarling guitars, "The Outpouring" conjures the Allmans, "Hold My Feet to the Fire" drops gospel harmonies over a boogie-woogie backbeat, and the fingerpicked "Close Every Valve to Your Bleeding Heart" builds from tender to raging without a false note."-David Peisner, SPIN 15 W. Girard Ave. Philadelphia PA $12 / 21+ Purchase Advance Tickets! Monday, Nov 1st / 8pm Village Green Productions Presents:
The Legendary Pink Dots The Legendary Pink Dots are a Netherlands-based rock band formed in August 1980 in the UK who, although distinctly underground, have been musically influential over the years. The band name was derived from pink dots of nail varnish on the piano in their squat, where founding members Edward and April lived. The band has as its focal point vocalist Edward Ka-Spel, who is, along with Phil “The Silverman” Knight, one of the original remaining members of the band. In the mid eighties the band resettled in the Netherlands, where they still reside today. Apart from Edward and Phil, the line-up has gone through many changes. Members such as Ryan Moore, a Canadian bass player, who joined in 1991 after the recordings of the Last Man to Fly with the Tear Garden (he joined as a session musician), went on to form their own labels and musical projects. See Twilight Circus and M Records. Their music is nothing if not original and it is difficult to categorise, but comparisons may be drawn with bands like Pink Floyd and Can. Their sound has been described as an amalgamation of psychedelic rock, industrial, synth-pop and avant-garde. They have released over 40 records and continuously tour the world. 15 W. Girard Ave. Philadelphia PA $20 / 21+ Purchase Advance Tickets! |
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