Friday Dance Music Guide: The Week’s Best New Tracks From Calvin Harris & Clementine Douglas, Parcels & More

This week in dance music: The long-awaited reopening of Brooklyn Mirage has been delayed “indefinitely” after permitting issues ahead of the club’s opening weekend. This delay forced the cancellation of Sara Landry’s back-to-back opening weekend shows, with the hard techno producer and her team scrambling to relocate the performances and the 12,000 people meant to attend them.

“There was never going to be an option where I sat in my hotel room without doing anything, knowing that thousands of people spent money in this economy to buy tickets and fly in,” Landry told Billboard earlier this week in a story about how she and her team ultimately put on four replacement shows for 15,000 people in at Brooklyn Storehouse and Knockdown Center in New York.

Meanwhile, we spoke with English-born, Australia-based producer Mark Pritchard about his haunting new album, Tall Tales, made with Radiohead’s Thom Yorke. “They’re quite heavy songs,” Pritchard says. “There’s playful things happening in some of the [accompanying videos, but there’s a lot of heavy dystopian-feeling things.”

Additionally in the dance realm, longstanding Canada-based indie electronic label Monstercat was acquired by Create Music Group, Beyoncé’s 2022 dance-oriented album Renaissance rose from 8-5 on the Top Dance Albums chart in tandem with the kickoff of her Cowboy Carter tour, Illenium announced that he’s signed with Republic Records after a stint at Warner, telling us that he “just felt a family sort of love” when meeting with his new label, John Summit announced that his biggest solo headline show to date will happen this October in Boulder, Co. and PinkPantheress dropped a new nine-track mixtape, Fancy.

And last but never least, these are the best new dance tracks of the week.