THE WHIP
With Foxfire, DJs Vaneska, Nasty Nav. Thu, July 10. Wrongbar, 1279 Queen W. $12.50 from Rotate This, Play De Record, Wantickets.com.
With all of the attention lavished on electro-pop-rock bands like Hot Chip and Klaxons, I’ve found myself yearning for a band like The Whip. The four members of this project that grew out of the ashes of indie-electro pioneers Nylon Pylon may be too young to have hung out at The Hacienda during its heyday, but they’re now carrying Manchester’s dance-rock torch. The Whip come with grit, killer hooks and a bottom end that truly goes whoomp! They arrive here on the heels of their excellent disc X Marks Destination as well as sets at festivals including Glastonbury and Montreaux.

GET THOUGHTLESS @ RANDOMLAND
With Karri O and Myers Briggs live, DJs Eric Downer, Noah Pred, Arthur Baker, ?uestlove, Starting From Scratch, Barbi, A.D/D. Fri, July 11. CiRCA, 126 John. $15.
This week at Randomland, the main Boom Boom room “gets crunk” with encore DJ appearances by both legendary producer and rock-hop-disco don Arthur Baker and The Roots’ ?uestlove. Meanwhile, up the escalator, the Skyy Cinema Lounge features the first-ever Thoughtless Music showcase. Four artists affiliated with Thoughtless — a local minimal techno and house label founded by Noah Pred and Evan Marc — contribute, with both Karri O and Myers Briggs (a.k.a. Arthur Oksan) creating live sets.

FRED EVERYTHING @ HOUSE OF OM TOUR
With DJ Heather, Colette, Andy Caldwell, Nick Holder. Fri, July 11. The Mod Club Theatre, 722 College. $20 from Play De Record, Cosmos, Wantickets.com.
San Francisco’s Om Records has long been one of the most prominent North American soulful house labels. Here, four of its best-known artists — Chicago’s DJ Heather, LA’s Colette, San Fran’s Andy Caldwell and Montreal’s Fred Everything — cross the continent to represent on the deep ‘n’ funky front. The tour also serves as a big release party for Everything, who follows his two knockout artist albums — 2000’s Under the Sun and 2004’s Light of Day — with the brand new Lost Together, on which he keeps his trademark bumpity-bump while working a more polished, vocal-heavy sound.

ZIZEK COLLECTIVE @ CUMBIA TONTASTICO
With Fauna, Chancha Vía Circuíto, DJs Villa Diamante, Oro11. Sat, July 12. Harbourfront Centre’s Brigantine Room, 235 Queens Quay W. Free.
Demonstrating once again that new music movements can grow out of club nights and label-affiliated collectives, Argentina’s Zizek crew bring their fresh electronic takes on cumbia to Harbourfront’s Ritmo y Color festival. Just as Brazilian artists have given the world baile funk, these young residents of Buenos Aires and beyond are meshing the rhythms of cumbia with hip-hop, dancehall, reggaeton, electro and more. Zizek’s weekly club night has earned raves from the likes of Diplo, their singles are all over the blogs and their SXSW appearance set them up for this North American tour.

LOCO DICE
With The Roaches, The Junkies. Sat, July 12. Footwork, 425 Adelaide W. $20 before 1am, $25 after.
German producer Loco Dice is a sonic chameleon. The Düsseldorf DJ, producer and Desolat label head began his career in 1992 as a hip-hop DJ and rapper known as Dice’C, but fell hard for house a decade later, adopted the Loco tag and started spinning in prominent German clubs. By 2002, Timo Maas signed Dice to his 4:20 imprint, and he’s since produced more than a dozen deep, groovy, chunky 12-inches on labels also including M_nus, Cocoon and Ovum. Last year, Dice and long-time collaborator Martin Buttrich moved to Brooklyn to create 7 Dunham Place, a beautiful debut album of dense, dubby house and techno that’s currently being feted.

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