P-Thugg (Patrick Gemayel) and Dave 1 (David Macklovitch) make some of the most entertaining music on the scene today. Hailing from Montreal, Quebec, the duo met as childhood friends, and share an encyclopedic knowledge of the rap game.

Joshua Decosta, better known as local rapper HW, first got his start in his hometown of Fall River. “I started when I was 14. I was heavy into rap–bad rap. A lot of Insane Clown Posse,” he admits. “I started trying to make rap songs and they were terrible. I listen to the recordings when I feel bad about where I am now.”

Kirsten Amann is living what might be considered an upscale tippler’s dream. When not behind the bar at South End hotspot Toro, this multi-talented lady can be found helming her eponymous PR company. And as if that weren’t enough boozy goodness, Amann is a founding member of the Boston chapter of LUPEC: Ladies United for the Preservation of Endangered Cocktails.

When you hear Camden play with one another, this seminal connection rings true in every note they play. Taking production styling of artists such as Caribou and Passion Pit, and incorporating song forms that could be translated into the likes of Modest Mouse, and even the Smashing Pumpkins, the result is a heavy hearted, yet relentlessly optimistic release entitled Vale EP.

El Bugalu Beat Train, born Ari Rosenfield, is a self-professed “one man DJ collective.” Beat Train got his start crafting dance nights like Mambo Beat Club and Cheap Thrills a Go-Go for mod kids with a hankering for all things retro.

Oranjuly’s debut album could not be coming at a better time. I just can’t think of a better soundtrack to a July 4th barbecue.

Coming to help you work it out, may we present The Fire and Reason, electro/baile-funk/dance carnival from New York. The easy-on-the-eyes duo are coming to Boston for a performance with Bodega Girls at Cool Ranch on June 30th. We got to drill them for a few tibdits of information before they make you dance. And dance you will.

At this point, you probably know that Tokyo Police Club are not Japanese. They’re actually Canadian (check out how they spell “Favourite Colour”), and made a pretty big name for themselves playing festivals like PopMontreal, Toronto’s Edgefest and Osheaga in Montreal in support of their breakout EP, the 16 minute long A Lesson In Crime.

Translating thought into action is seemingly one of the simplest, yet hardest, things to do. Boston DJ/promoter/entrepreneur Mike McKay has realized his dance parties Thunderdome, Visions, No Tomorrow and will no doubt do the same with other future ventures that are sure to promise a coming together of fun, people and creativity.

Imagine yourself walking the treeline of a coastal groove-forest. Softly glowing neon trees border you on your right and synthesized waves of warm, electric blue liquid-rhythm lap the rocky shore on your left. Soothing psychedelic visuals adorn the infinitely starry sky above you, as a reverb-soaked, disembodied choir of shoe-gazing angels proclaim the club-hopping gospel from the heavens. Then, with no apparent warning, shimmering fireworks of sound explode along the horizon, lighting the dark, vast night as if it were day. While a bit dramatized and adjective heavy, that’s pretty much exactly what it’s like to listen to Secret School.