http://mp3.rhapsody.com/charts?cat=artist&category=genre&genreId=1044&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpost-punk%2Fdance-rock%2Fartist-chart.rssTop Dance Rock Artists on Rhapsody OnlineDance Rocken720Tue, 8 Dec 2009 21:44:35 -0800 http://static.realone.com/rotw/images/logo_rhapsody_113x22.gif http://mp3.rhapsody.com/charts?cat=artist&category=genre&genreId=1044&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpost-punk%2Fdance-rock%2Fartist-chart.rss Top Dance Rock Artists on Rhapsody Online http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.4049&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpost-punk%2Fdance-rock%2Fartist-chart.rss New Wave Fri, 4 Dec 2009 13:20:19 -0800 Top Dance Rock Artists on Rhapsody Online art.4049 art.4049 Talking Heads art.4049 http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.4049&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpost-punk%2Fdance-rock%2Fartist-chart.rss http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.4049&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpost-punk%2Fdance-rock%2Fartist-chart.rss Fear Of Music (1979), the band began to radiate a kind of somber power, as they beefed up their previously lean sound with African rhythms. Remain In Light followed in 1980, and remains one of the more striking albums of that decade or any other. The rhythms were meticulous and yet completely driving, while the production was highly experimental with enough conventional flourishes to make "Once In A Lifetime" a radio success. Their blueprint now set, the group became hugely successful over the course of the 1980s, and their 1984 concert film is widely considered one of the best ever made. Their music was so immediate that their world beat-inspired songs still sound unique in whatever context they're heard. The group gave official notice that it was disbanding in 1991, bringing an inevitable close to one of the most creative and experimental commercially successful acts in rock 'n' roll. - Jon Pruett]]> http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.39651&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpost-punk%2Fdance-rock%2Fartist-chart.rss Post-Punk Tue, 8 Dec 2009 09:16:48 -0800 Top Dance Rock Artists on Rhapsody Online art.39651 art.39651 New Order art.39651 http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.39651&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpost-punk%2Fdance-rock%2Fartist-chart.rss http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.39651&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpost-punk%2Fdance-rock%2Fartist-chart.rss Blade soundtrack pits raw electro sounds against bitter, fluid bass kicks. They have also maintained impeccable integrity keeping one foot in the mainstream and the other underground, generating colossal worldwide hits as well as disturbing, alienated tracks with depressive guitar echoes and sad synth melodies. Even their most elevated, ethereal moments are grounded in melancholy, but provide a vaulting spirit that gives solace to any wilted flower. - Marc Kate]]> http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.6488890&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpost-punk%2Fdance-rock%2Fartist-chart.rss Punk-Funk Fri, 4 Dec 2009 13:21:20 -0800 Top Dance Rock Artists on Rhapsody Online art.6488890 art.6488890 Bloc Party art.6488890 http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.6488890&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpost-punk%2Fdance-rock%2Fartist-chart.rss http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.6488890&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpost-punk%2Fdance-rock%2Fartist-chart.rss http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.8877169&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpost-punk%2Fdance-rock%2Fartist-chart.rss Electropop Mon, 7 Dec 2009 10:13:39 -0800 Top Dance Rock Artists on Rhapsody Online art.8877169 art.8877169 Hot Chip art.8877169 http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.8877169&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpost-punk%2Fdance-rock%2Fartist-chart.rss http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.8877169&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpost-punk%2Fdance-rock%2Fartist-chart.rss Mexico, on a small London imprint in 2001. Hot Chip evolved their lazy, hip-hop inflected sound over the years, adding scraps of toy percussion and analog synths and taking on new members. They gained critical attention on the strength of 2005's Coming on Strong, their American debut, but it was 2006's Mercury Prize-nominated The Warning that exposed the band now a fulltime four-piece to larger audiences. While their albums are mostly laid back, toe-tapping disco affairs, their live shows are explosive and sweaty, especially for four pasty-white English guys playing synthesizers. - Jonathan Zwickel]]> http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.6052081&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpost-punk%2Fdance-rock%2Fartist-chart.rss Electropop Thu, 3 Sep 2009 10:32:55 -0700 Top Dance Rock Artists on Rhapsody Online art.6052081 art.6052081 Cut Copy art.6052081 http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.6052081&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpost-punk%2Fdance-rock%2Fartist-chart.rss http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.6052081&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpost-punk%2Fdance-rock%2Fartist-chart.rss Bright Like Neon Love, but teamed up with French producer Philippe Zdar (Cassius, Motorbass and MC Solaar), and the album helped spawn a worldwide electro-house movement. On their second album, In Ghost Colours, Zdar was replaced by DFA Records co-founder Tim Goldsworthy and would take the group in a more indie rock and synth pop direction. - Nate Cavalieri]]> http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.66426&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpost-punk%2Fdance-rock%2Fartist-chart.rss Electronica/Dance Fri, 4 Dec 2009 13:19:37 -0800 Top Dance Rock Artists on Rhapsody Online art.66426 art.66426 LCD Soundsystem art.66426 http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.66426&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpost-punk%2Fdance-rock%2Fartist-chart.rss http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.66426&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpost-punk%2Fdance-rock%2Fartist-chart.rss http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.10773261&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpost-punk%2Fdance-rock%2Fartist-chart.rss Electropop Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:26:23 -0700 Top Dance Rock Artists on Rhapsody Online art.10773261 art.10773261 CSS art.10773261 http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.10773261&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpost-punk%2Fdance-rock%2Fartist-chart.rss http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.10773261&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpost-punk%2Fdance-rock%2Fartist-chart.rss Em Rotterdam Ja e uma Febre and A Onda Mortal/Uma Tarde com PJ, and issued their self-titled full-length LP on TramaVirtual's fledgling music label in 2005. It was re-released internationally on Sub Pop a year later, followed by wide international touring. - Nate Cavalieri]]> http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.47219&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpost-punk%2Fdance-rock%2Fartist-chart.rss Electropop Sun, 1 Nov 2009 12:39:32 -0800 Top Dance Rock Artists on Rhapsody Online art.47219 art.47219 The Faint art.47219 http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.47219&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpost-punk%2Fdance-rock%2Fartist-chart.rss http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.47219&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpost-punk%2Fdance-rock%2Fartist-chart.rss Danse Macabre, which darkened indie songwriting with goth mascara (then spangled it with electro's shiny circuits). Danse Macabre Remixes brought them all the way over to the club, with help from remixers like Paul Oakenfold and Tommie Sunshine; subsequent albums Wet From Birth and Fasciinatiion have continued to burrow wormholes from the present day back to the '80s new-wave glory days. - Philip Sherburne]]> http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.65876&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpost-punk%2Fdance-rock%2Fartist-chart.rss Post-Punk Wed, 2 Dec 2009 11:07:38 -0800 Top Dance Rock Artists on Rhapsody Online art.65876 art.65876 The Rapture art.65876 http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.65876&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpost-punk%2Fdance-rock%2Fartist-chart.rss http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.65876&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpost-punk%2Fdance-rock%2Fartist-chart.rss Mirror, ushered in the city's millennial fascination with disco-touched, danceable post-punk. After a revolving-door cast of sidemen, the Rapture eventually settled on bassist Matt Safer, who appeared on their 2001 Sub Pop-issued debut EP, Out of the Races and Onto the Tracks. After releasing 2002's "House of Jealous Lovers" single, they added multi-instrumentalist Gabriel Andruzzi to the lineup and went to work on the 2003 full-length Echoes. After wide touring and a small break, Pieces of the People We Love arrived in 2006. It was the band's debut on a major label, Mercury, and they pulled out all the stops, bringing in a host of producers that included DJ Dangermouse and choppering in Gnarls Barkley supervocalist Cee-Lo for backups. - Nate Cavalieri]]> http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.4207&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpost-punk%2Fdance-rock%2Fartist-chart.rss Alt Dance Fri, 4 Dec 2009 13:19:28 -0800 Top Dance Rock Artists on Rhapsody Online art.4207 art.4207 Happy Mondays art.4207 http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.4207&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpost-punk%2Fdance-rock%2Fartist-chart.rss http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.4207&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpost-punk%2Fdance-rock%2Fartist-chart.rss Pills'N'Thrills'N'Bellyaches, their bleak comedown album follow-up Yes Please — produced by Talking Heads' Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth — remains a lost classic. Irregular reunions have failed to dim their wayward legend. - Paul Moody]]> http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.4640&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpost-punk%2Fdance-rock%2Fartist-chart.rss Post-Punk Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:09:52 -0800 Top Dance Rock Artists on Rhapsody Online art.4640 art.4640 Gang of Four art.4640 http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.4640&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpost-punk%2Fdance-rock%2Fartist-chart.rss http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.4640&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpost-punk%2Fdance-rock%2Fartist-chart.rss Entertainment, their brilliant 1979 debut hasn't lost any of its power over the decades, and while it remains Gang of Four's masterwork, they continued to create vital music. Their 1981 follow-up Solid Gold, is only slightly less powerful and contained the "birth of FM alt radio" staples "What We All Want" and "Cheeseburger." The album was quickly followed by Songs of the Free, a brave – and successful -- change in direction. More complex song structures and less of a punk-funk influence informed the album's sound while the lyrics (except for the bitingly sarcastic new wave disco staple "I Love A Man In A Uniform") were more sorrowful on the subject of modern man's isolation than they were scathing. When bassist Dave Allen left the band, the gang of three softened up for Hard, an agit-pop reconfiguring of Roxy Music and Chic's swank musical universe. While the 1983 album is hardly essential listening, it does feature the excellent single "Is It Love," and the under appreciated track "Woman Town." The album was harshly criticized as a post-punk sellout (you'd think no one had ever heard New Order's single "Thieves Like Us," for Pete's sake) and Gang of Four folded soon after its release. Key members Jon King and Andy Gill reformed the band for 1991's Mall, which retained the same high quality musical and lyrical ideas as before but was missing the all-important element of pop craftsmanship that the band previously employed (there's a reason Entertainment, and not PIL's Metal Box, is the sound of today's crossover indie rock). By the late 1990s, kids not even born when Entertainment was released began getting signed to major labels with music that sounded an awful lot like the Gang of Four. This prompted the original band members to reform and headline a heralded, sold-out 2005 tour across Europe and the U.S. Gang of Four is currently working on a new album. - Nick Dedina]]> http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.10390&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpost-punk%2Fdance-rock%2Fartist-chart.rss Indie/Alternative Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:03:39 -0800 Top Dance Rock Artists on Rhapsody Online art.10390 art.10390 Le Tigre art.10390 http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.10390&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpost-punk%2Fdance-rock%2Fartist-chart.rss http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.10390&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpost-punk%2Fdance-rock%2Fartist-chart.rss http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.11962924&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpost-punk%2Fdance-rock%2Fartist-chart.rss Alt Dance Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:26:52 -0700 Top Dance Rock Artists on Rhapsody Online art.11962924 art.11962924 Klaxons art.11962924 http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.11962924&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpost-punk%2Fdance-rock%2Fartist-chart.rss http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.11962924&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpost-punk%2Fdance-rock%2Fartist-chart.rss NME grandly dubbed them the leaders of the "new rave" scene provides the final, hilarious accolade. Because if there's one thing that Klaxons are, with fine art graduate Simon Taylor-Davis and philosophy student Jamie Reynolds on board, it's acutely aware of how they're perceived. Roll that together with an avowed adherence to KLF media manipulators Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond's The Method: How to have a Number One the Easy Way, and suddenly their artistic venture makes a lot more sense. Which isn't to say that "Golden Skans", "Two Receivers" and "Atlantis to Interzone" aren't great tracks, more that if you take a step back from the music, the view's wonderful. - Jamie Dolling]]> http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.61480&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpost-punk%2Fdance-rock%2Fartist-chart.rss Dance Rock Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:50:54 -0800 Top Dance Rock Artists on Rhapsody Online art.61480 art.61480 Electric Six art.61480 http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.61480&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpost-punk%2Fdance-rock%2Fartist-chart.rss http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.61480&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpost-punk%2Fdance-rock%2Fartist-chart.rss Fire -- which includes the top-five Brit hits "Danger! High Voltage" and " Gay Bar ," both inconclusively rumored to contain backing vocals by Jack White -- made much of a mass-cultural dent. It's a shame, because the albums since -- from 2005's Senor Smoke, featuring a wacky remake of Queen's "Radio Ga Ga," to 2008's wrongly slept-on Flashy -- have been consistent in their straight-faced but smirking re-imagining of mirror-balled early '80s AOR. No band has ever so expertly fused Falco with Foreigner. That the Six's recent releases have appeared on the sleaze-embracing industrial label Metropolis is somewhat hilarious in its own right. - Chuck Eddy]]> http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.8461&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpost-punk%2Fdance-rock%2Fartist-chart.rss Alt Dance Sat, 6 Jun 2009 08:29:29 -0700 Top Dance Rock Artists on Rhapsody Online art.8461 art.8461 Soulwax art.8461 http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.8461&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpost-punk%2Fdance-rock%2Fartist-chart.rss http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.8461&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpost-punk%2Fdance-rock%2Fartist-chart.rss http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.44097&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpost-punk%2Fdance-rock%2Fartist-chart.rss Punk-Funk Sat, 6 Jun 2009 08:29:34 -0700 Top Dance Rock Artists on Rhapsody Online art.44097 art.44097 Out Hud art.44097 http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.44097&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpost-punk%2Fdance-rock%2Fartist-chart.rss http://mp3.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.44097&variant=data&rws=%2Falt-punk%2Fpost-punk%2Fdance-rock%2Fartist-chart.rss S.T.R.E.E.T. D.A.D., mixes cello with power tools, beats and zany song titles like "Dad, There's A Little Phrase Called Too Much Information." Let Us Never Speak Of It Again released in 2005, explores a warmer, poppier area pioneered by 1980s synth heroes, the Human League, and raises the bar with song titles like "Dear Mr. Bush, There Are! Over 100 Words For Sh*t, And Only One For Music, F*ck You, Out Hud." Never afraid to spend years polishing and tweaking in the mixing room, yet simultaneously famous for some spectacular live performances, Out Hud are an honest band continuing to make honest music. - Neil West]]>