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Friday Dance Music Guide: The Week’s Best New Tracks From Fred again.. & Skepta, Swedish House Mafia & More


The best new dance songs of the week from Fred again.. & Skepta, Swedish House Mafia, John Summit and Gorgon City, Kenya Grace, Four Tet and more.

This week in dance music: We met Lenny Pearce, the Australian DJ who’s making techno for toddlers and throwing baby raves around the world and also caught up with French favorite Folamour who shared that while he at one point felt “dead inside” while playing clubs, his new house album helped revive his sound and spirit. Also this week: Fred again.. threw a pop-up show in Brooklyn with special guests Skepta and PlaqueBoyMix (more on that below), Billboard Danc e celebrated ten years since its launch, with the vertical’s founder Matt Medved penning a piece on the process that brought it all together. SG Lewis announced that he’s releasing a new album this fall, The Chainsmokers remixed Charli xcx’s “party 4 u,” Irish rock group Inhaler covered Kavinsky’s classic “Nightcall,” Billboard Italy did a deep dive on the country’s Adriatic Sound festival and its aims to become a techno destination and Marhsmello launched a pop-punk band, Underbrook, under his given name Chris Comstock.

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