Bedroom dancing is one of those silly little secret pleasures I hope to never outgrow (although not once in my life have I used a hairbrush as a microphone – that’s just too much). And now that I live in a studio, my entire living space has become one big dancefloor, lately dominated by Young Machetes from The Blood Brothers. Although their noisy guitars and relentlessly screamy vocals aren’t for everyone, songs like “Laser Life” get stuck in your head and make you want to pogo all around the room. (You can download an MP3 at I Rock Cleveland, whose blogger astutely notes that “Laser Life” is “surprisingly linear, deceptively melodic, but still retains that sweet vicious edge.”)

For a more accessible take on the dance-punk thing, Adam H. suggests the latest record from the cowbell-happy Rapture. “It has attitude and you can dance to it,” says Adam of Pieces of the People We Love, listing “Whoo! Alright Yeah…Uh Huh,” “The Devil,” and “Calling Me” as the album top’s tracks (and you can also give the title track a listen over at MP3 blog BadmintonStamps).

But to get the root of dance-punk, you’ll have to turn to Gang of Four, who pioneered that sound back in 1977. The Leeds, England-based foursome recently lent their classic “Natural’s Not In It” to the Marie Antoinette soundtrack (a “delicious mix of classical, 80’s, punk glam goodness,” says our Jean), essentially encapsulating the entire film in the song’s first four lines (“The problem of leisure/ What to do for pleasure/ Ideal love a new purchase/ A market of the senses”).

Speaking of both leisure and pleasure, Melissa has swiftly won my heart by tagging her pick of indie/French funk/dance-rock band VHS or Beta with terms such as “cute boys,” “drinking too much,” and “skinny jeans.” “I am married to the drummer,” Melissa confesses in her shopcast. “Plus you can dance to it.”

My personal favorite “cute boy” of the moment is probably Justin Timberlake, whose “My Love” off the new Futuresex/Lovesounds I can’t stop listening to over and over and over. Roman is into the new record too (“‘Sexy Back’ is hot!”), while Jeno prefers to get Justified.

Of course, it’s quite possible that no one pop star has ever been more bedroom-danced to than Madonna, whose Confessions on a Dancefloor is loved by both F.D. and Stephanie.

And while I want badly to share with you the Le Tigre song from which I ganked this post’s title, all I’m able to offer right now is “Deceptacon,” the equally danceable track off their first record. There’s an MP3 up at The Underrated Blog, where Rachael tells us that the song’s “always been one of my favorite songs to dj because I like to dance to it myself.”