Rhythm and muse: Tom and Mike of hot dance duo Dangerous Muse talk about loving the '80s, being "supersexual," and the power of eyeliner

For the past six months, however, the two have lived on separate coasts. Mike moved to Los Angeles last fall, but Tom, a double major in music and psychology, still has one more year left at Fordham--"I'm not going to give up school because Mike is two years older than me"--and they've coped by relying on Apple's audio instant messenger, iChat, to put down their tracks. (They shot the "Rejection" music video during Tom's spring break.)

The duo, who've already played clubs in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, will put out a new digital release of a cluster of songs in May and an album in June through Cordless Recordings, the brand-new incubator label that music legend Seymour Stein brought Mike and Tom into when he signed Dangerous Muse to Sire Records in September 2005.

More importantly, however, between recording, performing, and school, have these boys had any time to date? "We both are single," Mike confirms. "Looking for love."

"Looking for love anywhere," Tom agrees. "Just not with each other." They look at each other for a split second, then break out laughing.

Vary also writes for Entertainment Weekly and Variety.

Photographed by Blake Little for The Advocate

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