Next week features the best grouping of young electronic pop bands I’ve seen in Seattle since the beginning of the year, including the Teenagers, MGMT, Hot Chip, Yelle, Simian Mobile Disco, BARR and Cut Copy.

This list only includes the headliners. A bevy of other great lesser-known and local bands are opening during all these nights.

On Saturday, the big show at Neumos will be Paris-via-London pop rockers, the Teenagers on the band’s second trip to Seattle. The show will be all ages. Along with Vampire Weekend and MGMT, the Teenagers represent a large proportion of the buzz in music blogs, and the first few singles feature profanity-laden odes to international youth culture. Synthetic, beat-heavy fuzz rockers the Handsome Furs will open for the show.

The week continues on Monday with a sold-out show by Brooklyn psyche-pop synth grinders MGMT (pronounced “management”) at Chop Suey.

It’s been a year since the electronic white-nerd funk of Hot Chip graced Seattle. In that time, the band has become hugely popular on the international music scene. The UK group will be playing at the Showbox April 22.

On Wednesday, Parisian post-riot-girl disco queen Yelle makes her first visit to Seattle. If you like nylon pants and French rap, go see her, or at least watch one of her music videos on YouTube.

There are two shows on Thursday. First, Simian Mobile Disco (SMD), made famous by the disco single “Hustler,” is coming to Neumos. SMD’s stripped-down electronic album Attack Decay Sustain Release strikes a balance between harder techno and disco house.

Secondly, L.A.’s experimental-rap act BARR is playing Club Pop at Chop Suey with possibly the best opening acts in Seattle: Little Party and the Bad Business (LPBB) and Gasworx. LPBB are Redmond-to-Seattle transplants who play Casiotone rap on topics ranging from Seattle DIY music to the 1986 Raiders. Casey Catherwood of LPBB also writes the underage music column for The Stranger.

Right now Cut Copy is possibly the most influential dance band. The band’s new album, In Ghost Colors, came out recently, and while I have not heard the whole recording yet, I can comfortably call it the most anticipated electronic pop release of 2008. While the show on April 30 at Neumos may be 21+, the band will be performing in-store at Easy Street Records on Queen Anne during the afternoon.

[Reach reporter Erik Stinsom at arts@thedaily.washington.edu.]