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JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound – Artist Spotlight

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Listen Up Denver! presents JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound “Artist Spotlight.” Spend some time with JC Brooks and his band “The Uptown Sound” as they deliver a smoking performance at The Larimer Lounge, talk about their new record Howl, their influences, and of course how the whole thing got started! These guys present soul music by children of the post-punk era. It’s the sound of a band that cut its teeth listening to PurpleRain and In On the Killtaker, is drawn to the theatrical-cum-creative auras of Tina Turner and Otis Redding.

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JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound – October 10th – The Larimer Lounge

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Last week, the Chicago Soul powerhouse of JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound rolled into The Larimer Lounge for the second time this year and while this show didn’t pack quite the punch of their April throw-down, it did showcase Brooks’ amazing stage presence and vocal prowess as the group plowed through a 90 minute set for a modest school night crowd. The band seamlessly segued from banging dance numbers to soulful slow jams and Brooks never slowed the constant patter of witty and fast paced banter between songs.

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PICK OF THE WEEK: JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound – The Larimer Lounge – October 10th

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JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound has always maintained the work ethic of never just ‘giving a concert’ but putting on a full-on extravaganza packed with theatricality, tons of heart, and buckets of sweat—they can’t help it! Six and a half feet of raw emotion and sweat, snarling at the crowd beneath an afro pompadour, while indulging in a sly wink, singing to you directly, and here to make you dance.

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JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound – April 6th – The Larimer Lounge

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The Larimer Lounge was the hot spot in town on Friday night because JC Brooks and The Uptown Sound were in town. These guys hail from Chicago and have created unique blend of Soul, R&B, and Post-Punk that is 100% pure adrenaline fueled dance music. If the puddles of sweat, flying hair, and looks of pure ecstatic joy on the faces of everyone in the room are any indicator, their sound strikes a chord with the soul and almost demands you move.

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JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound – April 6th – The Larimer Lounge

Estimated read time 2 min read

JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound has always maintained the work ethic of never just ‘giving a concert’ but putting on a full-on extravaganza packed with theatricality, tons of heart, and buckets of sweat—they can’t help it! Six and a half feet of raw emotion and sweat, with one leather boot planted in gutsy R&B, the other in taut minimalist grind. Snarling at the crowd beneath an afro pompadour, while indulging in a sly wink, singing to you directly, and here to make you dance. What does post-punk soul look like? It looks like JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound.