Lawrence.com

October 20, 2008

Brian Sears would gladly sell his soul for a stock copy of a rare and beautiful 45rpm record, but that doesn't disqualify him from spinning choice soul sides. The host of The Breakdown a monthly dance party at the Eighth Street Taproom is in good company in Lawrence, where vintage soul records are regularly dusted off and blasted on loudspeakers by co-conspirators like Sarah Brokenleg (a.k.a. Sadie Soul) and Josh Powers (a.k.a. SceneboosterSoundsystem). If you can't cut a rug when those three DJs take the stage, it's probably time to buy an oxygen tank. The vinyl orgies would get a stamp of approval from John Cusack's character on "High Fidelity," but its populist purveyors aren't cliquish with regard to their loose-limbed disciples. Young and old; funky and frumpy; red state and blue state-it's all soul deep.