Friday Dance Music Guide: The Week’s Best New Tracks From The Chainsmokers, Kiesza & Peaches, Chris Lake & More

Friday Dance Music Guide: The Week’s Best New Tracks From The Chainsmokers, Kiesza & Peaches, Chris Lake & More

This week in dance music: Dance-punk darlings The Rapture announced their first headlining tour in 15 years will start in September, including a previously announced performance at Portola in San Francisco.

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“The idea to take The Rapture back on tour wasn’t some grand, strategic decision,” the band’s frontman Luke Jenner told Billboard. “It kind of unfolded the way life does when you’re finally listening to it instead of forcing things. I’d done a lot of personal healing over the years and somewhere in all that space, I found clarity.There’s a sense of purpose now for me that wasn’t there before.”

Meanwhile, John Summit announced his own festival, Experts Only NYC, will happen September 20-21 on Randall’s Island with a lineup including to headlining sets from Summit’s along with stars from his Experts Only label and friends including LP Giobbi, Kaskade and Green Velvet. Steve Aoki spoke about remixing BTS’ 2017 song “MIC Drop” in a preview for the forthcoming documentary about BTS ARMY.

In sustainability meets raving sector, the producer of London’s Junction 2 and Paradise in the City festivals announced that neither event will not serve any meat as part of a comprehensive greening initiative. Elsewhere, Karol G and Tiësto defeated a copyright lawsuit over their 2023 collaborative track “Don’t Be Shy,” Fred again.. released a scorching remix of “Victory Lap” featuring Denzel Curry, Anyma shared the complete set list from the first night at of his [UNVRS] Ibiza residency exclusively with Billboard, we spoke with Barry Can’t Swim about his gorgeous new album, Loner and with Chris Lake about his impeccable debut solo album, Chemistry.

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

The Chainsmokers “White Wine & Adderall”

The gentlemen of Le Chainsmokers return with a track that in both title and sonics may very well sum up the pair’s 2025 mindset. “White Wine & Adderall” feels like the realization of a sound the duo have been reaching for since 2022’s So Far, So Good, striking a balance between windy, left of center dancefloor music that evolves their output but still maintains the melodics and pop accessibility of the duo’s early big-ass hits. Angsty, pop-punk leaning vocals courtesy of Beau Nox, who himself has writing credits for Drake and 6lack, are the glue that bring it all together.

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The messaging around the song also positions it as the start of a new era for Alex Pall and Drew Taggart, who in a joint statement say that “it took a whole day to getthemain three lines of this song. We sat withtheincredible Beau Nox scratching our heads and leftthesession ultimately thinking nothing would come fromthetiny hook we had written.

“A couple days later Drew and I were talking about this UKG wave, and I said ‘I bet you can’t make a version of this in that world.’ A few hours later it was hitting pretty hard. It wasn’t a song that we immediately imagined releasing, but after playing it in many of our shows and seeingthereaction it became clear to us it needed to come out. Last time I bet Drew he couldn’t make a certain style of song, we ended up with ‘Don’t Let Me Down.’ After allthese years, maybe this is how we work best.”

“White Wine & Adderall” is out via Columbia Records. Listen to it here.

Jayda G, “The Shiver”

Summer is for bright as the sun house music, and U.K. fav Jayda G thus soundtracks swimsuit season with “The Shiver.” She says the breezy, buoyant track “is about that feeling youget when you meet someone and you feel like it could be something… It’s based on me and my husband when we first met — after years apart. I want people to feel light and happy and to have fun whilst listening to the song.” And we do. The producer, who became mom for the first time earlier this years adds that “there’s so much to celebrate in life, and I hope this track brings you a little of that energy.”

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“The Shiver” is out via Ministry of Sound. Listen to it here.

Barry Can’t Swim, Loner

Expectations were high for Barry Can’t Swim’s second album Loner, but he manages to smash them with the 12 track collection. The project oscillates between fat, heady beats (album opener “The Person You’d Like to Be”) to dreamy, lovestruck house music (“Cars Pass By Like Childhood Sweethearts”) with the album still maintaining cohesion via the power of the producer’s cerebral and often psychedelic sensibilities. Containing previously released winners like “Kimpton” and “Still Riding,” Loner further establishes the artist Joshua Mainne as one of the most interesting and essential dance artists of the moment.

Loner is out via Ninja Tune. Listen to it here.

Chris Lake, Chemistry

It’s hard to believe that after a more than two-decade career, Chris Lake is just now releasing is debut solo album, but so it is. Telling us that he finally just had the vision for a cohesive collection of tracks, Chemistry finds Lake fully flexing his powers, which have long been not just in heady dancefloor tracks, but in the creation of moments both delicate and emotional. And so while the altogether cerebral and pristinely produced album often bangs and bounces (“Psycho,” “Satisfy Me”) some of its most effective moments come in more-subtle stretches like the soulful, come-hither house opener “On & On” and “Falling” with Bonobo and Alexis Roberts.

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Chemistry is out via Black Book Records. Listen to it here.

Kiesza feat. Peaches, “So Erotic”

It’s the essence of double trouble with this pair-up from Kiesza and Peaches, who together deliver a dark and titillating house track with often NSFW lyrics and thumping production that make it worthy of its name. Of getting the legend Peaches on the track, Kiesza says that she “slid into her DMs not knowing if she would see it or respond. She lives in Berlin, but happened to be in Toronto where I was recording… at my house. She came by and laid down her verse. She is truly a bada– icon. The track is super juicy and heavy and very dirty. The bass feels like a dungeon.” It comes from Kiesza’s forthcoming Dancing and Crying: Vol. 2, a collection of house tracks coming July 25.

Listen to “So Erotic” here.

Jamie Jones & Baby Rose, “Rolling Thunder”

Fresh out on Helix Records is“Rolling Thunder” by Jamie Jones and Baby Rose, a laid-back, soulful house track that’s ideal for cruising around the city with the top down this weekend. Focused around a rolling bassline and Baby Rose’s heartfelt vocal, the track conjures emotional impact, despite its ethereal nature. Speaking aboutthe release on Instagram, Jones says that “when I first heard Baby Rose’s vocal and guitars, I knew there was some magic there… her vocal sounded like an original Motown record, but with a fresh twist.”

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“Rolling Thunder” comes some five months after Jones’ previous single,“Butterflies,”producedin collaboration with Green Velvet. The 44-year old Welshman seems to be having a busy year, with a recent set at Glastonbury festival amidst a European tour that includes a London slot at his own globetrotting festival,with James Jones Presents Paradise in the City happening later this month at London’s Boston Manor Park.

“Rolling Thunder” is out via Helix Records. Listen to it here.

Deathpixie, “Raise Your Weapon” (Deathpixie’s Requiem)

Deadmau5’s era-defining 2011 classic “Raise Your Weapon” is here pulverized to bits and reassembled into a dubstep/trap/phonk weapon courtesy of Deathpixie, a virtual artist in the tradition of Gorillaz and Hatsune Miku who’s the fictional frontwoman for an emerging group of songwriters, producers and animators at the Hume Collective.

Deathpixie has signed with deadmau5’s mautrap label, which is releasing “Raise Your Weapon” (Deathpixie’s Requiem). Listen to it here.

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