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Ground Control Touring Welcomes all under heaven

Posted 09/08/2025

Hailing from Freehold, New Jersey, all under heaven have cemented their place in the new wave of shoegaze, balancing raw alt-rock grandeur with meticulously crafted, reverb-drenched soundscapes. Emerging from the tight-knit Sunday Drive Records roster, all under heaven continues to carve out a space where dreamy textures meet alt-rock urgency. From their split release with Glare and Leaving Time to their “stunning” (The Alternative) 2024 debut LP What Lies Ahead Of Me, the band has solidified itself in a sound that merges swirling guitars, thunderous rhythms, and introspective lyricism. Their latest single, Moving On, recorded at the legendary Studio 4, leans into a more polished alt-rock grandeur with “searing guitars, hard-hitting drums, and soft, pop-punk vocals relaying devastating lyrics” (FLOOD). Vocalist Nick DeFabritus weaves themes of self-doubt and resilience into soaring melodies, creating music that’s as cathartic as it is immersive.

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Ground Control Touring Welcomes Gladie

Posted 08/13/2025

Don’t Know What You’re In Until You’re Out, the second full-length record from Philadelphia band Gladie, opens with a contemplative instrumental called “Purple Year.” Along with acoustic strumming and a late-night wall of cricket-chirps, cello and gentle horn runs set a dewy, moonlit stage before second track and single “Born Yesterday” bursts alive with drums, bass, and bright guitar chord crunch. It’s like a cold, heart-jolting morning plunge as Augusta Koch’s familiar Philly tenor starts in: “It takes me more time, I’m a little unsteady/I was born yesterday, I forgot I could be somebody.”Koch realized while writing these songs that she had become an entirely different person: a mental, spiritual, and physical renaissance had unfolded over several years that, together, constituted an entirely new reality. Everything had changed, from relationships with friends to relationships with alcohol. Being on the other side of these tectonic shifts offered the sort of clarity that you can only get by going through the darkness: You Don’t Know What You’re In Until You’re Out. It’s optimistic, but it’s scary, too—life changes always are. Who will you be at the end of them? “Born Yesterday,” which Koch wrote about not drinking alcohol anymore, offers a critical revelation that guides the record, and which was hard-earned while experiencing the overwhelming emotional acuity that developed while living without alcohol: “The way I feel, I could fill the ocean/When the wave comes crashing in, it said I’m not a fixed thing/I’m changeable.”

“I like the idea that the record’s title can be both a positive and a negative,” says Koch. “It could seem sad, but it can also be hopeful in the sense that when you’re going through something really rough. It will get better, you will change, you will survive it, and you will be able to see it from a different perspective that you never thought you could.”Don’t Know What You’re In Until You’re Out cycles through these transitions sonically and thematically. “Hit The Ground” is a folksy, desert-drive shuffle, while “Nothing,” opening with feedback screech, is a punk-rock rollercoaster ride that rejects the American cultural drive to want more and more and more until we die: “What would it feel like to want nothing?” cries Koch.“Soda” tells a shoegazey, indie-psych love story that imagines creating our own normal when we’re around the people that make us feel seen, rejecting societal pressure to hate ourselves and feel like we’re not enough: “I like the way we live in tandem and the world we wish to see/Sweet and cheap, we thrive on less,” Koch sings on the second verse. The gentle alt-rock waltz of “Smoking” reflects on a deeply missed habit, and pensive, spacey, synth-and-cello-centric closer “Something Fragile” ends the record with as many questions as it started: “Am I something fragile or something strong?” Koch wonders, still finding her footing in strange new realities.

Don’t Know What You’re In Until You’re Out marks the first Gladie production with a set band lineup, a feature which was previously hampered by the pandemic. As a result, the LP leans into Gladie’s live energy and dynamics, moving away from the home-recorded keys and drum machines of their 2020 debut Safe Sins.Koch recorded Don’t Know What You’re In Until You’re Out at The Bunk in early 2022 with Matt Schimelfenig (guitar, keyboard, vocals), Pat Conaboy (guitar), Dennis Mishko (bass), and Miles Ziskind (drums). Schimelfenig also recorded and mixed the record, while Ryan Schwabe mastered. Mark Glick (cello), Mike Park (saxophone), and Brian Lockerm (trumpet) guest across four tracks.

Don’t Know What You’re In Until You’re Out will be released on November 18th on Plum Records, the label Koch started with former Cayetana bandmates Kelly Olsen and Allegra Anka.

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Ground Control Touring Welcomes Knox Fortune

Posted 08/12/2025

Knox Fortune is a producer, songwriter and artist born in Chicago’s Oak Park neighborhood, based in Brooklyn. He received a Grammy award for his early work producing and songwriting with Chance The Rapper. He has released two solo albums, Paradise and Stock Child Wonder. Most recently he produced “First Place” and “Dads Love” for Justin Bieber and the single “Soup” for Remi Wolf along with several other cuts on her “Big Ideas” album. Additional songs for Omar Apollo, Joey Purp, Vince Staples, Chance The Rapper, etc. Other close collaborators are Carter Lang, Kenny Beats, Dilip, Dylan Neustadter and Jared Solomonophonic.

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Ground Control Touring Welcomes Emily Yacina

Posted 08/04/2025

Emily Yacina has been self-releasing music for over a decade, offering a “treasure trove of wrenching melodies and delightfully off-kilter meditations on time and absence” (Stereogum). Although she’s collaborated with some of the most notable names in indie rock, including Alex G and Rostam, Yacina is a singular artist. Her voice is compelling and instantly recognizable, sometimes winking, lilting, or layered and chopped and used as an instrument. Veilfall arrives six years after the release of her debut studio album, and is another mesmerizing entry in her catalogue. Illuminating Yacina’s sharp command of crystalline production, Veilfall showcases an expanded roster of collaborators operating at the highest level. Her ability to mine intangible emotions is sage-like, as she navigates formless concepts like the process of grieving, and the types of alienation that can follow in its wake.

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Ground Control Touring Welcomes Go Kurosawa

Posted 07/30/2025

Go Kurosawa is multi-instrumentalist, producer, and co-founder of the independent label Guruguru Brain. Best known as drummer of Kikagaku Moyo, Go has spent the past decade building bridges connecting east and west, sound and silence, rock and ritual.

soft shakes is something different: his first solo album, made entirely by himself, and made mostly for fun.

Go has a rare kind of musical instinct: he can play anything, listen to everything, while not taking himself too seriously. For a long time, solo music wasn’t part of the plan: after years in a band, playing alone felt strange. Music, to him, was something to do together. Over time, while traveling, collecting instruments, and eventually setting up Guruguru Brain studio in Rotterdam: Go started jamming by himself. What comes is playful, layered, rhythmic, and surprising. Just like Go.

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Ground Control Touring Welcomes HTRK

Posted 07/23/2025

Few groups in history, recent or otherwise, elevate mood to such singular, smoldering supremacy as the Australian duo of Jonnine Standish and Nigel Yang aka HTRK [‘Hate Rock’]. Across nearly two decades of work, wounds (co-founder Sean Stewart tragically took his own life in 2010), and world tours, their sound has shape-shifted between densities and intensities, noise and nakedness, but never wavered in its delicate poetic gravity. Theirs is a chemistry of smoke, echo, and the undertows of desire, the dislocation of cities and memory, the melancholy of distance and deepening night. It’s music of solitude and sensuality, for small hours and lost weekends, spoken in an intimate shadowplay language of skeletal electronics, velvet voice, and noir guitar.

HTRK’s albums have been released by an array of international labels including Fire (Nostalgia), Blast First Petite (Marry Me Tonight), Boomkat Editions (Over The Rainbow), and Ghostly International (Psychic 9-5 Club, Venus In Leo). For the occasion of their most recent full-length, the celebrated slowburn suite Rhinestones, they founded their own artist imprint, N&J Blueberries. In the live setting they transform spectral torch songs into quiet storms of tension, texture, and transcendence.

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Ground Control Touring Welcomes Flooding

Posted 07/21/2025

Flooding is a gut feeling.

Fronted by guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter Rose Brown, Flooding is a 3-piece band that explores genres like slow-core, noise rock, post-hardcore, and post-punk. Brown is supported by bassist Cole Billings and drummer Zach Cunningham, who share the songwriting goal of curating abstract elements of different music styles to create a distinct composition with each album and song, rather than fitting into a particular genre. Flooding is interested in what music can allow us to feel and things it can force us to confront. Softness and harshness coexist in everything – and there’s freedom in allowing ourselves to be both at the same time.

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Ground Control Touring Welcomes Mother Soki

Posted 07/16/2025

Mother Soki is among a generation of new artists forging their paths and creating music that attracts fans seeking a soul connection. That creativity led her to sign with independent label Mom+Pop early in 2025.

A bit farther back in her trajectory, Mother Soki wasn’t even clear about how to pursue music. Carving her way through adolescence with a fierce artistic drive, though, the Minneapolis-based musician discovered her passion for making music while attending college in Chicago.

Attempting to pursue other forms of art and avoiding what was her true calling, Mother Soki says, “I realized it was far more fulfilling than any art medium I had tried (and I’ve tried a lot), from beginning to end, and even after. Something about the process of music felt so natural to me, even when I did not know how I was doing it, I was just doing it.”

Now immersed in her passion for music, Mother Soki gravitates toward the dreamy textures of Dream Pop and the sonic nostalgia of the ’90s. Drawing daily inspiration from her surroundings, she channels her creativity through classic influences: The Sundays, Imogen Heap, and Cocteau Twins.

Her sound blends modern interpretations of vintage synths with heavy guitars and airy, spacious vocals—creating contrasts that shouldn’t work, but somehow do. Mother Soki makes the unexpected feel seamless.

That became the inspiration for her current hit song, “Rivet Gun”. Released earlier this year, the song resonated with millions of fans making “Rivet Gun” a viral and sonic explosion. Upon its release, the song was shared over 800 times on TikTok within the first 50 hours, resulting in more than 12,000 creates in under eight weeks and over 4.8 million streams globally. The song propelled Mother Soki into the public spotlight in unexpected ways, with prolific user-generated content, as creators used scenes from the TV show Severance and clips from another Minneapolis native, Prince’s Purple Rain. “Rivet Gun” is inspiring other artists with singer Ellie Goulding posting the song with the comment, “What is this sorcery?” just days after its release.

The lyrics to her songs create a dreamscape that defies explanation. She adds, “I find music intriguing if there is a certain level of vagueness incorporated with lyrics, having layers of metaphors within one big metaphor. I also believe in my own subconscious. If I come up with a metaphor that doesn’t make sense at first, most times, it fits perfectly once it all comes together.” As Mother Soki continues her creative arc, fans can expect more songs with an EP planned for later in 2025.

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Ground Control Touring Welcomes Hollie Cook

Posted 07/10/2025

“Oh here I go again, more love songs!” Hollie Cook laughs. If there’s a theme that the London-based reggae vocalist and songwriter returns to more than any other, it’s love. The magical and the melancholy, the heart-lifting and heart-breaking, you name it, Cook is there for it. “It is just my favourite,” she enthuses. “It makes me feel more alive than anything else!” On the cusp of releasing her fifth album, Shy Girl, Cook is going back to her roots – tight grooves, beautiful vocals and catchy melodies – more self-assured and more open to vulnerability than ever before.

Although it was the lovers rock of Janet Kay and the rocksteady of Phyllis Dillon that would ultimately steal her heart, Hollie Cook’s journey in music has been about finding her own way. Daughter of Sex Pistols’ drummer Paul Cook, she was first drawn to the big walls of sound that backed the close harmonies of ‘60s girl groups and classic Motown 45s. Pop was her puppy love and growing up she found herself gravitating towards strong female personalities like Björk, Courtney Love, and Mariah Carey. Then one day, she absent-mindedly tagged one of her early MySpace tracks with the words “tropical pop”. It stuck.

That Cook ended up falling for reggae owed much to living in 2000s London, where she connected the dots of soundsystem culture between Notting Hill Carnival and iconic nights at Plastic People, The End and Gaz’ Rockin’ Blues. “I always felt a bit like an outsider in both social and music scenes,” she explains, too interested in too much to settle for just one thing. You could say she needed a mentor.

And who better than the ultimate riot grrrl, Ari Up? Cook was only 19 when Ari invited her to join feminist post-punk icons The Slits on a reunion tour. What began as a few live dates became four years of worldwide shows and an industry crash course like no other. “I’m not a natural show-off,” Cook says, “but I think that experience helped nurture my individualism and carefree attitude. Ari was so true to herself and that made me feel so safe and so powerful.” It was all the inspiration she needed to take the next step.

Joining up with producer Prince Fatty, whose clean, instrumental, analogue aesthetic caught her ear, Cook cut a single called ‘Milk & Honey’ that would form the basis of her self-titled debut, released by Mr Bongo in 2011 to widespread acclaim. A soulful collection of originals and covers, such as Rachel Sweet’s ‘It’s So Different Here’, it featured the Pioneers’ George Dekker, Omar Lyefook and Slits’ producer Dennis Bovell, laying foundations on which Cook could build a sound of her own.

Dubbed out by Prince Fatty for a 2012 rerelease, Cook’s debut was followed by 2014’s Twice, also on Mr Bongo, before a four-year hiatus saw her begin a new chapter, working with Youth, formerly of Killing Joke and a producer whose CV reads like a who’s who of post-punk, pop and rave royalty.

With fresh input, Cook stretched her legs in new directions, lacing her dub-wise productions with more experimental sensibilities and releasing the ambitious Vessels of Love in 2018 and Happy Hour in 2022 on Merge Records, while never straying too far from the core of her musical identity. “I think that my approach has always come from the world of harmony and melody,” she explains. “That’s how I always find my expression.”

Her new album, Shy Girl, is perhaps Cook’s most authentic yet. Almost three years in the making, it has also been her most challenging. Beset by writer’s block, she switched up her process and headed for the studio with long-time collaborators The General Roots Band to write in a more fluid and collective manner. Recorded across New York, LA, Spain and London, some tunes were developed over time, others, like title track ‘Shy Girl’, came together in moments of spontaneous intuition.

The result is a vibrant, confident record that speaks of the full spectrum of emotions. From the melancholy musings of ‘Night Night’ to the nocturnal dizzy dance of ‘Rockaway’, and ‘Rivers Run Deep’, which she describes as a “sweet song of hope and friendship”, Shy Girl confirms Cook’s place as reggae’s orator of love, in all its guises.

“My albums are very much a process of me trying to be as open and honest as I can be,” Cook says. “The Shy Girl theme is me. It’s just about being my most vulnerable self and being as true to the music that I love as possible.” Almost fifteen years since her debut, Hollie Cook is returning to the sound which first captured her heart, and it rings truer than ever.

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Ground Control Touring Welcomes Colle

Posted 07/09/2025

Colle, the moniker of New York experimental musician Maya McGrory, has released Montalvo, a collection of songs that return to her past, offering a perspective of multiple lives lived at once. This reflection contrasts with her present, exploring how these early experiences shape and rebuild her understanding of connection and healing. Initially an experiment in electronic music production, Colle became McGrory’s defining musical voice with the release of her first EP For Now. Her music invites listeners into immersive emotional landscapes, where expansive glacial synths, strings, and driving beats converge, enriched by her sincere and alluring vocal delivery.

Drawing inspiration from the notion of living multiple lives, McGrory’s childhood memory of living on Montalvo Rd. serves as a prism through which she views her existence. She navigates through the contrasting landscapes of her life, finding solace in the innocence and simplicity reminiscent of childhood. Now, her focus lies solely on the ephemeral, on the effortless flow of existence. In the world of childhood, worries are scarce, and even the harshest conditions hold a certain allure. And though the journey back may seem daunting, Colle feels that it’s not merely a matter of distance it’s a journey of rediscovery, of embracing the innocence and wonder that defines her today.

Throughout Montalvo, the songs swell and flow with natural instrumentations and samples. Haunting, poignant synths and strings envelop the tracks, creating a foundation for McGrory’s vocals, which feel like a faint, distant call in the dark of night. Delayed and open guitar strings add harp-like textures, while the driving, trip-hop shoegaze inspired beats propel the music into an experimental interpretation of electronic rock. McGrory infuses her melodies with chromatic notes, creating a captivating blend of familiarity and innovation. The album, originally conceived as a return to a specific time in her life, evolves into a journey back to traditional songwriting, only to be reimagined into a distinct experimental version during the production process.

McGrory’s musical evolution is tangible, drawing from her varied experiences within club culture, creating visual art, and participating in performance art spaces, along with her involvement in live alternative rock ensembles. This breadth of musical affiliations reflects a newfound maturity in her latest release, marking significant growth in her music career. McGrory’s performances transcend traditional settings, often taking place in nontraditional spaces and enhanced by immersive sensory experiences. Performing sometimes with Mitchell Hiers, she incorporates his live projections, projecting abstract visuals generated from old 3D computer programs onto the performance space as she plays live guitar over her computer tracks. These innovative elements combine to create a unique and captivating audiovisual experience for her audience.

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Australia’s Quest Master soundtrack your RPG fantasies at the Empty Bottle

Posted 07/02/2025

Step into the pixelated mists of Quest Master. Australian dungeon-synth artist Lord Gordith (better known among punks as Gordo Blackers of Steröid) launched Quest Master onto the scene in 2017 with a double cassette titled Lost Songs of Distant Realms, which uses Yamaha and Casio keyboards to evoke nostalgia for 90s RPGs and their epic journeys and battles in eight-bit worlds populated by knights and dragons. The release became a sensation among chiptune appreciators and fantasy enthusiasts, and in 2019 it was reissued on CD and vinyl by Out of Season—one of the first American labels to concentrate on dungeon synth.

Quest Master’s sound has since matured past this imaginative but faithful homage to early quest-based home video games: The lush, complicated soundscapes on 2023’s Sword & Circuitry (Out of Season) have a chintzy, emotive quality that recalls the ambience of Twin Peaks while maintaining a distinct energy and narrative propulsion. Despite flourishes of 80s synth-pop and wriggling earworms from The X-Files soundtrack, these ethereal, vibrant, densely layered songs are unmistakably modern.

At a cultural moment when it’s easier than ever to find a Dungeons & Dragons or Magic: The Gathering game in Chicago (the Empty Bottle, where Quest Master stops on this tour, has hosted a few of both), dungeon synth has found a warm welcome in the city’s rich electronic-music and noise scene. At this show, Quest Master will cap a bill full of artists on the cutting edge of the fantasy sound: Salt Lake City’s Fief (also on Out of Season) bring a folkloric quality to their music, locals Mors Vitaque veer toward the lugubrious and romantic, and Fort Wayne’s Sorrowmoon skew more sinister. The latter two have released music through Great Lakes Dungeon Synth, a regional collective and label that in October threw the first midwest festival for dungeon-synth lovers, the Great Lakes Dungeon Siege, in Fort Wayne

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Ground Control Touring Welcomes Quest Master

Posted 07/02/2025

Quest Master is fantasy synthesizer music from Sydney, Australia – burst onto the underground ‘dungeon synth’ scene with “Lost Songs of Distant Realms” [2017, Out of Season] – a two volume nostalgic soundtrack to a lost 90s JRPG crafted with classic digital tones from Yamaha and Casio keyboards.

These debut releases were followed up by the sister albums “The Twelve Castles” and “The Twelve Temples” [Out of Season, 2020/2021], again using classic 90s keyboard tones and an added focus on FM Synthesis, these albums draw heavily from the soundtracks of early N64 and PSX games.

The next chapter of QUEST MASTER’s evolution, titled “Sword & Circuitry” [2023, Out of Season / Urge Records], marked a significant departure from Lord Gordith’s seminal back catalogue of RPG and classic video game inspired dungeon synth. Unlike their previous records, “S&C” is a gloriously lush and immensely ethereal affair, diving deep into 80’s synthesiser music. These songs possess a magick that will surely grip you with soaring synthesizers and captivating melodies.

2025’s “Obscure Power” [Out of Season] further builds upon the sonic blueprint of ‘Sword and Circuitry’, expanding the Quest Master universe by incorporating influences from 90’s electronica. Blending the atmospherics and pulsing rhythms of that era with the signature Quest Master sound, the result is a richly textured and immersive sounds

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Ground Control Touring Welcomes Acopia

Posted 06/25/2025

Acopia is a band from Naarm/Melbourne, formed in 2018 by Kate Durman, Lachlan McGeehan, and Morgan Wright. Working with restraint and atmosphere, their music unfolds slowly and deliberately, guided by instinct and emotion. Their debut album Chances was released in 2022 on Melbourne imprint Companion, followed by a self-titled, self-released LP in 2023. Since then, they’ve sold out headline shows across the UK, Europe, and Australia, performed at festivals including Wide Awake (UK), Les Nuits Botanique (BE), and Golden Plains (AUS), and shared the stage with artists such as Bar Italia, Tirzah, and Raisa K. Their third album, Blush Response, is due out in September 2025 via London label Scenic Route.

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Ground Control Touring Welcomes Midwife

Ground Control Touring Welcomes Midwife

Posted 06/18/2025

Madeline Johnston is a self taught multi-instrumentalist and recording engineer, currently based in Southern Colorado by way of Denver, where she spent the last decade developing her sound and focusing on her artistic community. Midwife began while Madeline was a resident of the beloved DIY space Rhinoceropolis in 2014. On stage, Johnston is known for her sparse, emotionally charged experimental pop music that can silence a room. On record, she produces intricate and lush sonic environments in her own little corner of the heavy music scene. She describes her sound as “Heaven Metal,” AKA emotional music about devastation. Johnston writes primarily about grief, and the many faces it can inhabit.

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Ground Control Touring Welcomes Operelly

Ground Control Touring Welcomes Operelly

Posted 06/17/2025

Just days before graduating college in May of 2025, bay area native Olivia Austen released her debut EP as Operelly. The six songs on Handwriting Practice No. 1 mark the arrival of one of music’s most unique new voices. Merging together airy guitars and delicate samples, Olivia crafts songs that dance along the edges of indie, experimental, and alternative music. The resulting sound – dubbed “tiptoe music” by Olivia – is at once gorgeous, catchy, and haunting.

“My biggest inspirations were storybooks and poems with accompanied illustrations,” says Olivia. “I wrote lyrics that intentionally felt like nursery rhymes, but I still wanted the music to reflect the anxieties and broken relationships that I faced.”

Olivia is hard at work on her follow-up EP.

Check out Operelly’s artist page for forthcoming news and tour dates.

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GCT is Hiring!

GCT is Hiring!

Posted 05/27/2025

Ground Control Touring is hiring for multiple positions in our New York and Los Angeles offices. We’re looking for experienced, passionate individuals to join our team and help shape the future of independent music touring.

Current openings:

Festivals Coordinator (NY/LA): Manages festival bookings, maintains industry relationships. and represents the agency on-site

Agency Associate (LA): Assists with all facets of tour booking, client interfacing, and the flow of holds, offers, and tour announcements

Administrative Assistant (NY): Supports agent teams by handling booking logistics, contracts, data entry, ticketing updates, and marketing coordination

Marketing Coordinator (NY/LA): Leads tour marketing efforts alongside the Marketing Manager, liaising with clients and crafting informed, strategic campaigns

Marketing Assistant (LA): Supports the marketing team with inter-departmental organization, social media management, and asset distribution

Full job descriptions can be found here: https://linktr.ee/groundcontroltouring

Interested applicants are encouraged to submit a cover letter, resume and social media handles to jobs@groundcontroltouring.com. Please be sure to include the position you’re applying for in the subject line of your email.

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