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Friday Dance Music Guide: The Week’s Best New Tracks From Chase & Status and Stormzy, Loud Luxury and Bobby Shmurda & More
The best dance songs of the week from Chase & Status with Stormy, Loud Luxury with Bobby Shmurda, Jayda G, Kelly Lee Owens, Laidback Luke and Christoph.
This week in dance music: Empire of the Sun touched down in the Billboard News studio to talk about their new album, Ask That God; we announced that a refurbished Los Angeles grocery store will soon host sets by artists including Floating Points and Orbital, we spoke with Fred again..’s team at Wasserman Music about the artist’s “hugely risky” and wildly successful touring strategy, we reported from this year’s edition of Electric Forest and passed details on how to watch the debut of breakdancing at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Featuring U.K. grime royalty Stormzy, “Backbone” is basically a diss track directed at “p—y MCs” lacking in the titular department, with the rapper’s lyrical bullets matched by a crisp, walloping, characteristically booming production from the duo. That’s not to say that “Sunshine” doesn’t also hit hard, however — with the track ramping up to a lush, danceable swirl on which Owens’ own spare vocals add an extra flourish.
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