Pitchfork

So they've got the fashionable double word thing going (cf. Man Man, Xiu Xiu, Talk Talk, Mr. Mister), but happy-footed New York quartet Gang Gang Dance take it to the next level, annexing a third word onto their rhythmic moniker, a third word that tells you precisely what you should be doing at their shows.

What exactly is a Gang Gang Dance? Is it something Sharks and Jets engage in? Or shackled inmates de-littering the highways? Or "pre-adolescent, anthropomorphic animal characters"? Find out as Social Registry ravers Gang Gang Dance invite the arm-crossers of various North American metropolises to ditch those inhibitions for a night and hit the Gang Gang dancefloor on a spate of autumn shows. The shindigs, in support of last year's much-loved sophomore LP God's Money and the forthcoming Retina Riddim DVD, kick off tonight in Baltimore.

Gang Gang dates:

10-25 Baltimore, MD - Ottobar
10-26 Columbus, OH - Little Brother's
10-27 Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
10-28 Minneapolis, MN - Walker Arts Center
10-29 Milwaukee, WI - Shank Hall
10-30 Oberlin, OH - Oberlin College
10-31 Toronto, Ontario - Lee's Palace
11-01 Montreal, Quebec - La Sala Rossa
11-02 New York, NY - Webster Hall (CMJ)