Get your dance on: the bands that are sure to get you moving.(Music Watch)(Stand Up, Life of a Heartbreaker, Trash, Rats and Microphones)(Sound recording review)

It's Pride month, so how about a little summertime dance party? Recent albums by Goddes & She, Scream Club, Heloise & the Savoir Faire, and the Gossip should be essentials on your party playlist, and will definitely get bodies moving with a mixture of rap, electro and dance punk.

Stand Up, God-des & She (Self-released): Fans of theMadison, Wis.-bred, now Brooklyn-based, hip-hop duo know that this sophomore full-length album has actually been available directly from the group or at their concerts since last fall, but just last month it got an official "release" and national distribution. The 14-track disc is a tight production, beautifully show-casing the interplay between God-des' gritty, complex rhymes and She's gorgeously melodic and soulful R&B-flavored voice. Songs like the playfully dirty "Lick It" and sing-along "Love You Better" will likely already be familiar to many (the former largely due to a performance on the 2007 season finale of The L Word), but there are many more cuts worth discovering. God-des is at her finest when offering her truth on songs like "A Little Too Different," "Give Them What They Want" and "This Is the Life," which touch on the realities of being queer in the music business and in real life. "Stand Up" is a call to make the personal political by standing up for one's beliefs. Cuts like "Hollywood" and "I Hate Your Ex Girlfriend" are just hilarious fun. The whimsical "Ja Da" seems almost out of place--with its heavily sampled nonsensical refrain, it's instantly infectious. Frankly, I can't find a cut on this disc that I'm not crazy about, and almost every one of them would work well in a party-shuffle on your iPod or on your next mix tape, (god-des.com)

Life of a Heartbreaker, Scream Club (Crunks Not Dead): Moving the party in more of an electro-hop direction, the Olympia, Wash., queer white-girl-rapper/DIY-punk duo of Cindy Wonderful and Sarah Adorable also has a sophomore album that's been out for a while, but is getting renewed attention now. This 12-song follow-up to their impressive debut, Don't Bite Your Sister, includes guest appearances and remixes from a host of underground rap and electro stars, and ranges from high-energy sound clashes ("I'm Going Crazy") to more mellow, laid-back, hip-hop grooves ("Intoxicating Protege"). The ghetto-electro Joey ...