List of dance-rock artists
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The following list includes notable dance-rock artists.
± indicates a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee whether individually and/or as part of a group
Artists
- !!![1][2][3]
- ABC[4]
- And Then There Were None[5]
- The B-52's[4][6][7]
- Belouis Some[4]
- Big Audio Dynamite[8][9][10]
- The Big Pink[11]
- BodyRockers[12]
- A Certain Ratio[4]
- The Charlatans[13][14]
- ± Depeche Mode[4][15][16]
- Devo[17][18]
- ± Duran Duran[4][19][20]
- Electronic[21][22]
- EMF[23][24][25]
- ± Eurythmics[4]
- The Farm[26]
- Fine Young Cannibals[27]
- Frankie Goes to Hollywood[28]
- Franz Ferdinand[29][30]
- Friendly Fires[31][32][33]
- Gang of Four[4]
- Garbage[4][34][35]
- ± Hall & Oates[4]
- Happy Mondays[25][36][37]
- Hot Chelle Rae[38][39]
- Hot Chip[40][41][42]
- Billy Idol[43][44]
- INXS[4][45][46]
- ± Mick Jagger[47]
- Jesus Jones[25][48][49]
- The Killers[50][51][52]
- LCD Soundsystem[53][54][55]
- Liquid Liquid[56]
- The New Cities[57]
- New Order[4][58][59]
- No Doubt[4]
- Oingo Boingo[60]
- Robert Palmer[4]
- Pet Shop Boys[4]
- Primal Scream[61][62]
- The Prodigy[63][64][65]
- Pseudo Echo[66]
- Public Image Ltd[67][68][69]
- Rogue Traders[70][71]
- Scissor Sisters[4][72][73]
- The Shamen[74]
- Simple Minds[75][76]
- The Stone Roses[37][77]
- ± Talking Heads[78][79][80]
- Tom Tom Club[81][82]
- ± U2[4][83]
- Walk the Moon[84]
- Was (Not Was)[85][86][87]
- The White Tie Affair[88]
- Robbie Williams[4]
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Devo's brand of high tech dance rock has already staked its musical horizons on its earliest albums
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the Shamen reoriented themselves to play simplified dance rock on the pointedly political but boringly de-Shamenized in Gorbachev We Trust.
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It's a throwback to the Heads' pre-funk dance-rock sound
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It's a far cry not just from Talking Heads' nervous dance rock but also from the experiments with "found" sound on My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
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Bassist Tina Weymouth and drummer Chris Frantz also play in the dance rock band Tom Tom Club.
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After the breakthrough 1991 album Achtung Baby, this group of working-class Irish lads slowly began losing themselves in the pre-millennial dance-rock craze
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