List of dance-rock artists

The following list includes notable dance-rock artists.

Artists

• !!!^[1][2][3]
• ABC^[4]
• And Then There Were None^[5]
• The B-52's^[4][6][7]
• 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][23]
• EMF^[24][25][26]
• Eurythmics^[4]
• The Farm^[27][28]
• Fine Young Cannibals^[29][30]
• Frankie Goes to Hollywood^[31]
• Franz Ferdinand^[32][33]
• Friendly Fires^[34][35][36]
• Gang of Four^[4]
• Garbage^[4][37][38]
• Hall & Oates^[4]
• Happy Mondays^[26][39][40]
• Hot Chelle Rae^[41][42]
• Hot Chip^[43][44][45]
• Billy Idol^[46][47][48]
• INXS^[4][49][50]
• Mick Jagger^[51][52]
• Jesus Jones^[26][53][54]
• The Killers^[55][56]
• LCD Soundsystem^[57][58][59]
• Liquid Liquid^[60]
• Lonsdale Boys Club^[61]
• Momoiro Clover Z^[62]
• The New Cities^[63]
• New Order^[4][64][65]
• No Doubt^[4]
• Oingo Boingo^[66]
• Robert Palmer^[4]
• Pet Shop Boys^[4]
• Primal Scream^[67][68]
• The Prodigy^[69][70][71]
• Pseudo Echo^[72]
• Public Image Ltd^[73][74][75]
• Rogue Traders^[76][77]
• Scissor Sisters^[4][78][79]
• The Shamen^[80]
• Simple Minds^[81][82]
• The Stone Roses^[40][83]
• Talking Heads^[84][85][86]
• Tom Tom Club^[87][88]
• U2^[4][89]
• Was (Not Was)^[90][91][92]
• The White Tie Affair^[93]
• Robbie Williams^[4]

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80. Robbins, Ira. "Shamen". Trouser Press. Retrieved 1 March 2014. 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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82. "Simple Minds". Cambridge News. 22 June 2013. Retrieved 28 February 2014. Simple Minds, lest we forget, were doing Teutonic dance-rock a good decade before U2 decamped to Berlin with Brian Eno
83. Kaufman, Gil (31 January 1998). "Ex-Stone Roses Singer Not Just Monkeying Around On New LP". MTV. Viacom International. Retrieved 1 March 2014. The Stone Roses were among the leaders of the druggy, dance-rock Manchester scene of the mid- to late '80s
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