If you've been using your familiarity with Hot Hot Heats debut album, Make Up the Breakdown, to shore up your indie-rock cred, earning bonus points by comparing the band's broiling blend of New Wave and punk rock to XTC and the Attractions-era Elvis Costello, you're out of luck. Now that Warner Music’s Sire imprint is relaunching the disc, which Sub Pop released in October, every T.J. and Trish across America could soon be bouncing along to the band’s unconventionally danceable tunes, which have hooks you could catch blue marlin with. Hot Hot Heat is known for its high-energy concerts, where everyday shoe-gazers feel free to freak out on the dance floor. “It always seems weird to me when bands just stand there and play their instruments,” singer and keyboardist Steve Bays says, adding that all-ages crowds in L.A. are the most avid rug-cutters, while audiences in Toronto and Seattle are “definitely more prone to crossing their arms.” The four-piece will tour Europe, Canada, and the U.S. in the coming months before entering the studio to record its first full-fledged major-label album. ‘I think Make Up the Breakdown is an awesome first record because it sounds exactly like our live show,” says Bays, a trained classical and jazz pianist who shares an apartment with drummer Paul Hawley, “but 1 could see maybe a few albums from now putting out just, like, a ridiculous tripped-out studio album.” By then, you’ll be able to say you were down with the Heat back in the day.