The Anubian Lights

Dear Fred Schneider: It’s been 13 years since the B-52s recorded Good Stuff, 11 since that nightclub scene in The Flinstones, 9 since Just Fred. And where are you now, Señor Rock Lobster? Lounging on a dog-shaped Art Deco couch, sipping a cosmopolitan? Contemplating a dip in your lavender, rhinestone-studded pool? Screening calls from Kate Pierson? It’s time to come out of retirement. We need you. More specifically, the Anubian Lights (we’ve enclosed the group’s latest, Phantascope; check it out) need you, if anyone is ever to need them. Anubian is this New York band that juggles Stereolab and the B-52s into a tribal, midtempo dance blur. Adele Bertei — she used to play keyboards for James Chance — is the singer, and she really gets into her middle-aged-party-momma-digging-the-groove role. But something’s missing, namely, a flamboyant weirdo who’ll dance with Bertei, holler meaningless junk when the songs threaten to throb into instrumental limbo, and keep us drunkenly partying down at wedding receptions now that “Love Shack” is finally getting stale. We think you could be that weirdo.