Friday Dance Music Guide: The Week’s Best New Tracks From FKA twigs, Alice Glass, Daphni & More

This week in dance music: The Tomorrowland mainstage was shockingly destroyed by fire two days before the event’s beginning, a situation an eyewitness at the scene told us was one of “disbelief.” The festival later outlined two options for its opening day, ultimately starting today (July 18) with its full grounds opens.

Meanwhile, Tomorrowland and Insomniac’s collaborative show at Sphere, UNITY, will feature headliner DJ Snake for the Sept. 19 edition of the residency, Swedish House Mafia will become the first ever dance headliners at Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York this September, Kaytranada and Justice are hitting the road together for a co-headlining tour that starts in October, a new documentary about the rise of the EDM era featuring interviews with artists including Carl Cox, Fatboy Slim and Kaskade is being released later this summer

Elsewhere, Kesha’s new album . (Period) reached the top of Top Album Sales, Vinyl Albums and Top Dance Albums, a new museum exhibition about disco icon Thelma Houston opened in Long Beach, Calif., we spoke to Soulwax about their forthcoming album All Systems Are Lying and its two lead singles, a fundraiser was launched for Optimo (Espacio) member JD Twitch after he revealed a terminal brain cancer diagnosis, Palm Tree Festival announced that it will host its first ever event in Napa Valley, Calif. this fall, mau5trap signed its first ever virtual artist, Deathpixie, Fred again.. released a second edit of his Skepta collab “Victory Lap,” Nine Inch Nails released a surprise song co-produced by Boys Noize, Flume released a collaborative album with Emma Louise, Shaq released a new bass music EP and Above & Beyond dropped their first entirely electronic album in seven years, Bigger Than All of Us.

And to close it all out, there are the best new dance tracks of the week.