From the radio to the dancefloor...KCRW’s Boogie Boudreaux is coming at you live Friday night with rock, funk, electronic and whatever beat gets you grooving underneath the disco ball. Part wax, part digital, pure heat. Dance in the glow of psychedelic visuals courtesy of Groove Cheese x Moirebender. Graphic by Alex Cerrilla.

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Gold Diggers

The Boogie Down w/ KCRW DJ Boogie Boudreaux

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Los Angeles

Gold-Diggers

Brother Swan is an indie rock band based in Los Angeles. Known for dynamic live performances, the Gold Diggers club team claims they are “stunning at a safe distance but can be dangerous if you get too close!”. Their debut LP, Loom, unites Chris Matthews’ pastel vocals with Chris Weisson’s locked-in drums and Ian Stahl’s melodic bass lines and harmonies. With inspirations like My Bloody Valentine, LCD Soundsystem, Elliott Smith, Alex G, and The Brian Jonestown Massacre, their music collages wall-of-sound guitars, hazy vocal harmonies, and jangling percussion to create something unique yet familiar.

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Brother Swan, Easy Sleeper

Al Lover's World Party: A Night of DJs Al Lover (Desert Daze) & Sean Cee spinning interplanetary Funk, Boogie, Disco and Proto-House from around the globe. Live projections by Glen Stefani.

Free with RSVP!

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Al Lover's World Party

LEO JAMES CONROY

Los Angeles based Leo James Conroy blends his exceptional vocal ability with the emotional depth of a lifetime spent writing music. Originally from Greater Manchester, UK, Leo has earned praise and played shows on both sides of the Atlantic, including at SXSW, NAMM, BBC Introducing and throughout the US. He has been endorsed as a Gibson Guitars artist since 2017. A classical musician by training, Leo began singing after spending over a decade performing with and conducting brass bands and orchestras in and around the UK. Leo released his début EP, Plastic Chairs & Cigarette Fumes, in 2018. The record blends his roots in orchestral music with his love of soul and blues to extraordinary effect.

Recent highlights include a US tour as support for Tash Sultana, opening for James Morrison in London and attending the 62nd Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.

TAYLOR JOHN WILLIAMS

Taylor John Williams’s stunning vocal range and ability to adapt his singing and performance style to a wide spectrum of genres and moods gives him a unique edge in the constantly evolving landscape of music. Williams cites the late Jeff Buckley as being his largest musical influence, whose emotive, soulful and indefinable style is evident in Williams’s own work.

Williams's compositions showcase both a keen writing ability and a willingness to embrace intense subject matter in order to produce music that is deeply visceral. Shortly after his trailblazing run on season 7 of NBC's The Voice, Williams released his debut EP, Song of a Dead Man, a soulful folk-rock project that included the sleeper hit, "The Mates of Soul," which has since amassed over 10 million global streams.

Since then, Williams has continued to release music that explores a variety of sonic landscapes in order to create a wholly original sound. Through it all, he remains committed to delivering authentic and emotionally charged music that speaks to the heart of his listeners. With a blend of raw talent, thoughtful lyricism, and versatility, Taylor John Williams is an artist to watch in the world of contemporary music.

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Taylor John Williams & Leo James Conroy

Alex Wasily's Very Good™ Mondays is back, this time with featured performances by Carliahos Rocha, Taiki Tsuyama, LJ Holifield, and Jason Taylor with DJ Stepmom playing til late. This is a night of improvised play among some of the most talented artists in the world. Mondays have but one rule: NO COVERS!

Arrive early to snag one of the few tables!

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very good™ mondays

Make Believe Love is the genre-bending brainchild of amateur auteur Lucas Berman. A Tinseltown native, Berman's art reflects his upbringing, aesthetically steeped in equal parts neo-noir and soap star sleaze. Berman offers a painfully self-aware commentary on grinding the gears of life in modern America and is anchored by a crew of Los Angeles hitmakers (including members of HOLYCHILD, Lo Moon, and talker).

The songs juxtapose Berman's off-kilter grit against luscious layers of analog synths, latticework guitars, and Blue-Eyed Soul harmonies, producing a singular vibe - saccharine yet subversive, like the love child of The Archies and Mötley Crüe.

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Make Believe Love, Storey and the Tellers, Chris Wills

Allen Dent will perform a DJ set at Gold-Diggers on Tuesday, October 3rd! Blending house, funk, and dance music with underground gems.

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 DJ Set by Allen Dent

An experimental music project that combines elements of Krautrock, jazz, indie rock, art rock, electronics, and the avant-garde, J.R.C.G. is named for the key artist behind the work, Justin R. Cruz Gallego.

J.R.C.G. returns with a new septet featuring musicians Jason Clackley, Morgan Henderson, Zac Hernandez, Anthony Beauchemin, Ian Corrigan, and Alex Barr.

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J.R.C.G. (ft. members of Dreamdecay), Dummy, Monde UFO

Advertisement album release show w/ The Berries, Great Spiders, Love Fiend

So long as there has been madness, there has been art that tries to arrest its shape, art that tries to capture its lack of coherency and fashion something beautiful out of the stupidity. On Escorts (Feel It Records), Advertisement leans into the romance of such foolish, magical thinking. The LP—their second, following 2020’s American Advertisement—is an impressionistic ode to the tragic comedy of contemporary life. Advertisement metabolizes the sounds of good nights gone awry with startling clarity, shifting effortlessly from glossy, leather-doused glam rock to glitching, Kraut-inspired spirals, Scott Walker-tinged empty pub revelries to industrialized club loops.

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Advertisement Escorts LP Release Show

dani mack, the moniker of Baylee Barrett, grew up in the small town of Lubbock, Texas. At the age of eighteen, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue her dream of becoming a musician. Her story is one you may, sadly, know well. She signed to a Grammy-nominated producer’s label but was soon met with unfulfilled promises and a loss of creative control. In a three-year period, they released one track—the rest of her work was shelved.

2022 saw Baylee finally stepping away from that deal and releasing her first new music in years. Under her new moniker, she released her first three singles, one of which was included on Bob Boilin/NPR's "Top 40 Songs of 2022". She also saw a huge amount of editorial support from the DSPs, including year-end nods from Spotify (Fresh Finds best 2022) and three 'Best of 2022' TIDAL playlists.

Her new single entitled "Nothing Better" teases her debut EP for Future Gods (due later this year) and is simply about her unhealthy habit of overthinking just about everything... It's great!

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Dani Mack, Beauty Queen, Jake Tittle

Real Life

Jake Tittle

The FREE, euphoric Desert Daze Nights returns to Gold Diggers on October 7th with live performances from Leah Senior, Harmony Index and this month only! a 3rd live and ambient opening performance by the amazing Yuka Honda. DJ Boogie Boudreaux is back behind the decks all night long. It's FREE, but you still gotta RSVP!

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Desert Daze Nights: Leah Senior + Harmony Index + Yuka Honda

Leah Senior - Clearest View

The Gimme 5's are back! Established in 2007, the 5's hit the LA club scene with their Stax style of R'n'B and modern day classic covers. The brainchild of bassist Rob Douglas (Nick Waterhouse, Tony Gilkyson) and organist Jerry Borgé (Ziggy Marley, Jonathan WIlson), the two friends enlisted Rick Holmstrom (Mavis Staples) on electric guitar and Derek Brown (Eels) on drums to carry out their vision. The Gimme 5's recorded their lone debut EP with Pete Curry (Los Straightjackets) at Pow Wow Fun Room in Culver City, California.

2 sets! Nick Waterhouse will be our 'guest of honor' guest DJ!

The debut EP: https://soundcloud.com/the-gimme-5s

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An Evening with The Gimme 5's + DJ Nick Waterhouse

Katchi - Ofenbach vs. Nick Waterhouse

Nick Waterhouse - Ain't There Something That Money Can't Buy

Nick Waterhouse

Long Time No See is a pop-up stand-up comedy venture that has found a home in many of the country's most unique event spaces and hottest comedy clubs. From Los Angeles breweries to New York rooftops, laughs have found their way to audiences across the nation.

With a wide ranging house of talent that scales from today's hottest up-and-comers to the most established comedian veterans, Long Time No See strives to bring the funniest and most diverse line-ups to every city it visits.

Featuring...

Dave Nihill (Drybar)

Ali Kolbert (Tonight Show)

J. Snow (HBO)

Andrea Jin (Colbert)

Steph Tolev (Netflix)

John Hastings (Drybar)

Jay Washington (Showtime)

Nacya Marreiro (Amazon)

Noah Findling (Don't Tell)

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Long Time No See 

comedy

Comedy

Desert Daze Presents Pop Noire DJs (Jehnny Beth, Erex & Johnny Hostile)

FREE w/ RSVP!!!

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Desert Daze Presents Pop Noire DJs (Jehnny Beth, Erex & Johnny Hostile)

As Snakes of Russia, Los Angeles based producer Joseph Holiday works hazy dark sound design, low end rumble and rolling downtempo beats into tracks that evoke a dystopian landscape...creating heavy cinematic instrumental electronic music that feels as timeless as it does current. His debut EP “At Home Alone With Lions” came in early 2020, followed by remixes, film work, sound design projects for Ableton Live and Spitfire Audio, and a collaboration with Berlin based artist/composer Robot Koch.

For his upcoming LP release “True Surrender” on Modular Field/Rough Trade, he worked with renowned metal producer Kurt Ballou (Converge, High on Fire, Chelsea Wolfe) at his God City studio in Salem, MA to explore a heavier sound overall, experimenting with different techniques such as re amping synths through guitar cabinets, drum machines through PA speakers, and live drums...to expand the sonic palette and make his heaviest work to date. “True Surrender” is out everywhere Fri Oct 13 on Modular Field/Roughtrade.

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Snakes of Russia w/ So Much Blood, NMX

Snakes of Russia

The newest member of the Daptone family stable of stars, Jalen Ngonda! Presently residing in the UK, Jalen grew up just outside of Washington D.C. At the tender age of 11, his father introduced him to the joys of soul music, most notably Motown's robust catalog, which he soaked up like a thirsty sponge, guiding him on the path to become the remarkable artist that he is today.

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(((folkYEAH!))) Presents Jalen Ngonda

If You Don't Want My Love

Jalen Ngonda

Life cycles through birth, death, and rebirth. Flames reduce objects to dust only for the wind to sweep them into the ether in another eternal form altogether. Meltt’s music resembles this natural sequence. The hum of distorted guitars dissolves into bright melodies carried by shimmering synths and soaring vocals. The Vancouver based band—Chris Smith \[lead vocals, guitar, bass, keys\], Jamie Turner \[drums, percussion\], James Porter \[guitar, keys, bass, vocals\], and Ian Winkler \[bass, keys, guitar\]—enable rock, alternative, and psychedelia to coexist in one creative ecosystem held together by airtight instrumentation and deft songcraft. All of these elements blaze brightly on the group’s second full-length offering, Eternal Embers \[\].

“By the end of the songwriting, we realized most of the tracks tied into themes of growth, decay, and rebirth,” James reveals. “With time passing, all of these things were on our minds. There’s also a lot of fire and water imagery. You’re going through these crazy, destructive, and dark moments and growing on the other side into new life.”

“To me, it seems like our lives lead towards central events,” Ian adds. “Everything after is a result of what happened.”

Collectively, the band members embrace and excel at discovering these creative inflection points. In the wake of the 2017 Visions EP, the group spiritually and sonically aligned on their full-length debut Swim Slowly. It yielded “Love Again,” which eclipsed over 9 million Spotify streams. In addition, “On Your Own” generated nearly 2 million Spotify streams followed by “Fool Of You” with almost 2 million Spotify streams. Throughout the global pandemic, the musicians wrote and recorded what would become the album in sessions with co-producer Kieran Wagstaff. Along the way, they formulated ideas separately. Eventually, they spent a month in a remote cabin together where they feverishly wrote and shored up the foundation of the record. They shared five tracks as part of the 2023 Another Quiet Sunday EP. Beyond tallying 1 million streams right out of the gate, OnesToWatch hailed the EP as “five songs that demand your attention.” However, everything only contributed to a larger statement.

“When we went to the cabin, there were a few running themes,” says Jamie. “We had similar experiences during COVID where we were all meditating on death and rebirth. It’s interesting how it individually shined through in our respective writing, but it overlaps in a very cool way. Everything fit together really well. There’s a balance of light and contemplation in one atmosphere.”

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Meltt w/ Guy Blakeslee

Love Again

Meltt

Guy Blakeslee

As a leading voice in American popular music, the Grammy Award-winning Nicholas Payton is a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, composer, producer, arranger, essayist, and social activist who defies musical and artistic categories. All the while, he honors the tradition of what he terms “postmodern New Orleans music,” as well as the spirit of Black American Music, of which he states, “There are no fields, per se. There are lineages.”

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Alex Wasily and Very Good Mondays presents Nicholas Payton

Nicholas Payton

At a simple ghat along the Ganges river in Rishikesh, India, Luke Sweeney and his family laid his infant daughter’s ashes into the water and recited Hindu prayers. As the river carried those ashes, a force bigger than his grief pulled Sweeney into an artistic process unlike any he had undertaken before. For years, the ‘calm poseur’ had kept busy playing the part of San Francisco’s gangly trouble-making troubadour: recording three solo records, touring the western U.S. multiple times over, and lending his hand to co-conspirators Tim Cohen and Healing Potpourri. But somehow in the wake of an unspeakable tragedy, when all time and music seemed to stop, he re-discovered the point of it all.

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Luke Sweeney, Mirrorball, DJ Lee Set

Luke Sweeney - Animal Room

Cactus Lee coming from Austin with band, including New Yorkers Adam Amram and Russell Hymewitz. Hippie Scum playing records in between a great night of music from Ashton the Terrible, Grave Flowers Bongo Band and Adam Amram.

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Cactus Lee, Grave Flowers Bongo Band, Adam Amram, Ashton the Terrible, DJ Hippie Scum

Dresage is the brainchild of Keeley Bumford, an artist, producer, and composer based in Los Angeles. In her world of creativity with Dresage as the vehicle, she creates lush synth and tactile organic musings, allowing herself the freedom to inhabit many genres, from dreamy synthwave to indie grunge pop. Clash Magazine calls her “pop from an alternate universe driven by a commitment to personal communication…honest, creative and forever outside the box.”

Dresage has independently released two EPs: Dresage in 2018 and Terror Nights / Terror Days in 2021. She has established collaborations with well-known artists like Jai Wolf and Elephante, contributing to their recorded music and making appearances as a featured live guest at prestigious venues and festivals including Austin’s ACL 2019 and Emo’s, as well as LA’s The Shrine and The Palladium. One of Dresage's notable strengths lies in music licensing, as her work has been prominently featured in various media projects, including AMC/Netflix's Better Call Saul, Volvo's commercial for the XC60 car, Netflix's Virgin River, and numerous Apple ad campaigns, among others. Her Harry Nilsson cover featured in Better Call Saul was named the Best Song Written/Recorded for Television at the 2023 Guild of Music Supervisors Awards. Her contribution to the show was also highlighted in Vulture’s esteemed list of the 10 Best TV Needle Drops of 2022 and on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross.

While sculpting songs that ponder feminism & mental health, Bumford is also passionate about spreading the autonomy of self-recording and production to women, and folks along the gender and socio-economic spectrums who have been historically kept out of such spaces. She regularly collaborates with femme-driven initiatives to bring more equity & training to upcoming producers.

Dresage's forthcoming EP, The Hell We Made, is out on October 20th. The project is a powerful collection of songs that tells the story of a necessary breakup that led Dresage to embrace her queer identity and become her truest self. The four tracks take the listener on a journey of self-discovery and realization, exploring the pain and struggle of letting go of a past love while also celebrating the freedom and liberation that comes with embracing one's authentic path.

Myylo is an artist with millions of streams across platforms and writing credits on viral smashes for Zolita and Dorian Electra. Paper Magazine describes his music as “horny chaos,” an energy sharpened with clever concepts and immediately identifiable hooks. Myylo is currently touring his album Ahh, having recently opened for Ian McConnell and JORDY and co-headlining tours with Kate Yeager and Chaz Cardigan.

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Dresage w/ Myylo

Better Apart (feat. Dresage)

Myylo

Dresage

Sid The Cat Presents

John R. Miller

W/ Taylor Kingman

10/20/2023 at Gold-Diggers

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John R Miller is a true hyphenate artist: singer-songwriter-picker. Every song on his thrilling debut solo album, Depreciated, is lush with intricate wordplay and haunting imagery, as well as being backed by a band that is on fire. One of his biggest long-time fans is roots music favorite Tyler Childers, who says he's "a well-travelled wordsmith mapping out the world he's seen, three chords at a time." Miller is somehow able to transport us to a shadowy honkytonk and get existential all in the same line with his tightly written compositions. Miller's own guitar-playing is on fine display here along with vocals that evoke the white-waters of the Potomac River rumbling below the high ridges of his native Shenandoah Valley.

Depreciated is a collection of eleven gems that take us to his homeplace even while exploring the way we can't go home again, no matter how much we might ache for it. On the album, Miller says he was eager to combine elements of country, folk, blues, and rock to make his own sound. Recently lost heroes like Prine, Walker, and Shaver served as guideposts for the songcrafting but Miller has completely achieved his own sound. The album is almost novelistic in its journey, not only to the complicated relationship Miller has with the Shenandoah Valley but also into the mind of someone going through transitions. "I wrote most of these songs after finding myself single and without a band for the first time in a long while," Miller says. "I stumbled to Nashville and started to figure things out, so a lot of these have the feel of closing a chapter."

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SID THE CAT

John R. Miller

Taylor Kingman

Sid The Cat Presents

Tommy Prine

Jordan Smart

10/22/2023 at Gold-Diggers

21+

Tommy Prine's debut album "This Far South'' coming June 23, 2023 is not only a long awaited introduction but a testimony to Prine's 20's and the loss, love, and growth that has defined them. Co-produced by close friend and kindred musical spirit, Ruston Kelly, and beloved Nashville engineer and producer, Gena Johnson, the album is rich and dynamic from cathartic jams to nostalgic storytelling.

The son of late songwriting legend, John Prine, Tommy Prine grew up in Nashville surrounded by music, art and writing. As a child, he thought all parents were musicians, as his father "going to work" meant performing shows for adoring fans and writing songs. Tommy learned to play guitar by watching his father play, copying the ways his fingers moved and inadvertently developing his own singular style. Summers in Ireland lent their own inspiration, as did 10 straight years camping at Bonnaroo. Prine's musical tastes grew to become decidedly eclectic, spanning John Mayer, Outkast, Bon Iver, the Strokes and more.

It wasn't until Prine reached his mid-twenties, though, that he considered a career of his own in music and began to share with others the songs he wrote in private. His songs were quickly met with excitement and enthusiasm, which sonically brings together a colorful patchwork of musical influences and lyrically explores existential questions and emotional experiences.

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Tommy Prine

Jordan Smart

Sid The Cat Presents

Show Up!

Featuring Ella Luna & Temme Scott

10/24/2023 at Gold-Diggers

21+

***RSVP does not guarantee entry. Show is first come, first served.***

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Show Up! Featuring Ella Luna & Temme Scott

Temme Scott

POP Montreal and SOCAN in partnership with Canada Council For The Arts are producing a new showcase series which puts the spotlight on Quebec musicians performing live in Los Angeles. These exciting monthly events will introduce emerging Quebec based artists to LA based industry, eager to hear the next big things out of Canada.

Born and raised in Salluit, a small village in Nunavik, Elisapie is an emblematic Canadian Inuk singer-songwriter. She makes her culture resonate with finesse by mixing modernity and tradition. Elisapie will unveil her upcoming album, Inuktitut, on September 15.

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POP Montréal presents Elisapie

Elisapie

Austin-based indie psychedelic band The Bright Light Social Hour kick off spring with new single “Not New” announced alongside news of tour dates and a new album, Emergency Leisure, coming August 2 via Escondido Sound. Founded by Jackie O’Brien (bass/vocals) and Curtis Roush (guitar/vocals) – and newly joined by Mia Carruthers (keys/vocals), Zac Catanzaro (drums) and Juan Alfredo Ríos (percussion) – the band's latest single showcases the sound of the forthcoming project, melding Texas trippiness with irresistible disco-punk groove. There’s an equally lysergic music video accompanying the track, in vintage Bright Light Social Hour style.

"In 2019 we did a tour we didn’t realize would be our last. At least for TBLSH as we knew it. Emergency Leisure is a fictional autobiography from this period, centered on a seminal, hedonistic night at Bar L’Escogriffe in Montreal - our own Tropic of Cancer of sorts. “Not New” kicks off the odyssey, a new beginning in our Fool’s Journey. " –Jackie O'Brien

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The Bright Light Social Hour w/ Choses Sauvages

The Bright Light Social Hour - Slipstream

Choses Sauvages

The Bright Light Social Hour

Sometimes, there’s a band.

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Taper's Choice presents Taper's Ball Night 1

Taper's Choice presents Taper's Ball Night 2

Sid The Cat & 88.9 KCRW Present

Girl Ray

W/ Flamango Bay

11/3/2023 at Gold-Diggers

21+

Girl Ray have never been afraid of switching it up. In the space of just three albums they’ve gone from janglepop darlings to being one of the most exhilarating and original pop bands around. Making their timely return with an album of unapologetically escapist alt-pop anthems, they shape-shift again on their new album, Prestige, as they look back to the post-disco dancefloors of the early eighties with a record that feels almost subversive in its sanguinity.

Co-produced by Grammy Award winning producer, Ben H. Allen (M.I.A, Gnarls Barkley, Christina Aguilera, Deerhunter) along with the band’s singer and songwriter Poppy Hankin Prestige takes the shambolic charm of their debut and the indiefied R&B of their last album and injects it with a booster shot of Hi-NRG eighties disco pop.

Bringing their deep understanding of modern pop and the bittersweet melodies of ABBA and Kate Bush and mixing it all together with the post-punk playfulness of Orange Juice and a love of Donna Summer and Yellow Magic Orchestra, Girl Ray have come back with a life affirming celebration of the transformative power of pop music at its most glorious.

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Girl Ray

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