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‘Uptown Sound’ coming to downtown

By Troy Doetch | October 27, 2010

JC Brooks' least favorite word used to describe his post-punk/soul group, JC Brooks and The Uptown Sound, is the lazy designation "throwback." Though it's an understandable prima facie label of the band's echoing blues guitars, jumpy horns and subtle...