VIDEO OF THE DAY: “SISTER RAY CHARLES” BY JC BROOKS AND THE UPTOWN SOUND

“All I want to do is just play some more,” JC Brooks declares on Want More, the 2011 sophomore album from JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound. “All I want to do is just dance some more.” The Chicago indie postpunk soulsters never leaves ’em wanting more, getting their groove on in raucous live shows that feature lead singer Brooks, a dynamic front man who has also appeared in such musicals as Passing Strange and Ragtime, along with guitarist Billy Bungeroth, bassist Ben Taylor, drummer Kevin Marks, and Chris Neal and Andrew Zelm on horns. The follow-up to 2009’s Beat of Our Own Drum, the group’s second disc includes such soul-stirring tracks as “Everything Will Be Fine,” “I Got High,” “Baaadnews,” “Sister Ray Charles,” and a celebrated cover of Wilco’s “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart,” which got the seal of approval from Jeff Tweedy himself, who has joined JC onstage to perform the song together. “Missing things is all I ever do,” Brooks sings on the new album. It would be a shame to miss them when they play Friday night at Brooklyn Bowl on a bill with Mingo Fishtrap, DJ Jack Dutone, and the Revelations featuring Tre Williams.