Friday Dance Music Guide: The Week’s Best New Tracks From Ape Drums & Jamiie, TEED & More

This week in dance music: the king Kaytranada released his fourth studio album Ain’t No Damn Way, a project he says is one that’s “strictly for workouts, dancing and studying and for my people that love beats.”

We caught up with Sophie Ellis-Bextor, who talked about her new album and the recent renaissance of her 2001 single “Murder on the Dancefloor.” “Thanks to ‘Murder,’ I basically just wrote a wish list,” she says in the story, “and I completely took advantage of the fact that I could then get in the studio with people who maybe might not have [otherwise] had time.”

Meanwhile, disco queen Gloria Gaynor was named as one of the Kennedy Center’s 2025 honorees, a distinction that The View’s Ana Navarro urged Gaynor to turn down, writing that “the woman is a goddess and deserves all the flowers that come her way. But I wish she wouldn’t accept an award from the hands of a man who has attacked the rights and history of women, people of color and LGBTQ.”

Charli xcx praised Addison Rae in a new Billboard cover story about the latter artist, the CEO of Burning Man offered an update on the organization’s current financial picture of the event in Nevada later this month, Mau P and Seth Troxler lead the lineup for Day Zero 2026, Bob Moses announced their fourth studio album is coming this fall, Demi Lovato returned to the dance charts with her single “Fast” and Meduza, Nightmares on Wax and Booka Shade were listed on the lineup for Iceland’s Eclipse Festival happening during a total solar eclipse next August.

And finally, these are the best new dance tracks of the week.