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(Rare) Soul Brothers
"That ranked up there with, like, typhoons, tsunamis," he recalls over the phone recently. Violence, foreground, his partner in Scorpio Brothers, DJ Sire Troy, and the rest of the promoters behind the upcoming Soul Village Landing party hope people will carefully read the event's fliers and posters, and come prepared for something a little more interesting than Rick James. "When they hear it's rare soul," Violence says, "they're usually not going to come expecting to hear a standard Stevie Wonder song." And if they do? "I'll tell them to go down to the Bottom," he says. Those who decide to stay will probably find themselves on the dance floor, drenched in sweat. The event starts around 9 p.m. Saturday (Nov. 9) at the John Marshall Hotel, with $2 discount before 10. $5 afterward. — wayne
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