Gang Gang Dance at Mohawk Tonight

Gang Gang Dance Gang Gang Dance Gang Gang Dance Gang Gang Dance. We mean, when you can say something over and over like that and it seems like the kind of game that is both fun to play and incredibly (incredibly) annoying for anyone else within listening range, how can you possibly not be a part of the party? But really, Gang Gang Dance make music a little more intelligent than Polly the Repetitious Parrot can muster, as the eminently-stylish Brooklyn-based electronic act spins and dives and splices together enough low- and high-speed body movers to keep a being plenty warm on the inside. All that, and they've got an acclaimed new album, Saint Dymphna, with which to lure you into the Mohawk's tender clutches.

Taking the stage just before GGD is Rainbow Arabia, who make music almost exactly like you'd expect from a group called Rainbow Arabia. And not in a bad way. The act, build around marrieds Danny and Tiffany Preston, mix the sounds of the musically underrepresented Middle East with the more familiar tropes of American electronic wizardry, and with a touch of darkness as well. The Californians have been stirring up just a slight bit of west coast hype in the past year, and all signs point to them eventually landing in the consciousnesses of all the world's iconoclastic dance lovers.

Opening up is one of Austin's most random and breathtakingly eccentric acts, the theatrical avant-pop group Death Is Not a Joyride. Their music is a viola-driven take on educated punk, but it's their live show—built around the concept of a human zoo in which mask-wearing humanimals engage in a kind of burlesque carnival—which has gathered them a reputation ranging from the smilingly positive to the awkwardly repulsed. In other words, you'll just have to see to it for yourself.