The last time we heard from the Electric Six, they were inviting us to go to a gay bar with them in their fittingly titled song, “Gay Bar” from their hot full-length debut, Fire. As with that album, their sophomore effort, Señor Smoke (Metropolis), not only keeps the flaming metaphor warm, it also combines dance music and rock and roll, sometimes in the same song. “Devil Nights” is the first full-fledged dance number on the disc and it provides a steady beat kept afloat by synthesizers. “Dance Epidemic” (in which Dick Valentine dies “for your sins on the dance floor”), “Future Boys” (with its dual meaning warning of “here comes the future boys” and “here comes the future, boys”), the sexy “Vibrator” and “Boy or Girl?,” and a respectful cover of Queen’s “Radio Ga Ga.” are all intended to rock your world, as well as your ass. The album’s finest moment (and perhaps the Electric Six’s as well) is the dark humor of “Jimmy Carter,” with its references to the Backstreet Boys (“Backstreet’s back all right!”) and Ronald Reagan.

Catch Electric Six this Wednesday, Oct. 11, playing at the Casbah in San Diego.

If you’ve been listening to the Red Hot Chili Peppers long enough, you probably remember that their funk roots run as deep as their rock foundation. In fact, their second full-length album was produced by funk godfather George Clinton. Their ambitious double-disc Stadium Arcadium (Warner Brothers), the band’s first studio album since their 2003 Greatest Hits compilation, is produced by Rick Rubin, who returns the funk to the forefront. Flea’s dominant bass gives many of these songs (including “Dani California,” “Charlie,” “Hump de Bump,” “Warlocks,” “C’mon Girl,” “Tell Me Baby,” “21st Century,” “Storm in a Teacup” and the standout track “Hard to Concentrate”) their spacious soul, and that’s reason enough for rocking when you dance.

A classmate of new wave-influenced acts such as Interpol, The Bravery and even The Killers, She Wants Revenge wears their Joy Division devotion on their designer sleeves on their self-titled debut disc (Flawless/Geffen). Adam 12 (a.k.a. Adam Bravin) and Justin Warfield have teamed up for a set of coolly distant tunes about masturbation (“These Things”), emotional detachment (“I Don’t Wanna Fall in Love”), anonymous sex (“Monologue”), one night stands (“Sister”), the pain of love (“Someone Must Get Hurt”) and generally misplaced emotions. The effect is chilling, if a bit premeditated, and nearly irresistible when it comes to working it out on the dance floor.