Dance Rock
Dance rock is rock music made for the dance floor, pairing guitars with disco, funk or electronic beats.
It emerged around the late 1970s and early 1980s from post-punk, disco and new wave in Britain and the United States. Songs keep a steady four-on-the-floor or funk beat, prominent bass and often synthesizers, with rock vocals and guitar on top. It is more rhythm-led than standard rock and less electronic than synth-pop.
Artists it is known for: New Order, INXS, Franz Ferdinand.
- Family
- Rock
- On Spotify
- No longer returned by Spotify’s API
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- United Kingdom and United States, late 1970s to early 1980s
- Also called
- dance-rock
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 8%
About 6,700 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have dance rock among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Dance Rock artists
The Killers
Depeche Mode
Empire Of The Sun
Duran Duran
Talking Heads
The Stone Roses
LCD Soundsystem
New Order
Billy Idol
The Prodigy
The dance rock artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.