Jodeci

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Certain records were never really about romance so much as about being wanted with an intensity that felt slightly unsafe, and for a generation that record had four men from Charlotte on it in leather. Jodeci were the rougher answer to the smooth thing happening around them, and thirty-five years later the songs have not softened - they still sound like somebody begging. What makes an anniversary tour for this music worth going to is the crowd: grown people who will treat every intro like a personal announcement, and who are not remotely self-conscious about it. R&B nostalgia in Los Angeles fills rooms that critics stopped writing about decades ago, which is why this will not show up in the listings you read. Go with whoever you would not be embarrassed to be emotional in front of. Sunday the 25th of October at eight.