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Tigercity will get your dance floor smoking

On paper, Tigercity is nothing special: a quartet from Brooklyn that combines vintage synths, slick hip-hop beats and Prince-like falsetto on retro-minded party jams. (Think the Power Station, Solid Gold, cheesy sitcom themes.) But unlike with fellow funkateers Chromeo, there’s no hipster artifice or ironic shtick to be found on the band’s Pretend Not to Love EP. Tunes such as “Powerstripe” and “Are You Sensation” preserve the gooey sentimentalism of ’80s Top 40 schmaltz, making Tigercity’s music much more soulful and authentic than other old-school preservers. The band’s live gigs are equally free of watered-down new-wave posturing. Vocalist Bill Gillim’s skyscraping swoons dominate—a siren call to smoldering looks exchanged across the dance floor, uninhibited seduction and the potential for unbridled passion. –Annie Zaleski

Opening for VHS or Beta. April 28, 10 p.m., $12-$15. Beauty Bar, 598-1965.

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