Friday Dance Music Guide: The Week’s Best New Tracks From SG Lewis, Axwell & More

This week in dance music: DJ Snake graced the cover of Billboard France ahead of his giant stadium show in Paris last weekend. “With all humility, I don’t claim to represent France,” the producer said in the story. “I represent a guy from Paris, who’s Franco-Algerian, and I just try my best to do interesting things.”

The week saw a flood of lineup announcements, with San Francisco’s Portola going hard in the paint with a bill featuring LCD Soundsystem, The Chemical Brothers, The Prodigy, Underworld and the queen Christina Aguilera. Rise Festival, an indie event returning to a desert location near Las Vegas in October, also came out swinging with a lineup that includes headliners Calvin Harris, Rüfüs du Sol and John Mayer. Kygo’s Palm Tree Festival announced an expansion to St. Tropez this July with an event that will feature headliners A$AP Rocky and Swedish House Mafia, and Philadelphia’s Making Time dropped a bill featuring Four Tet, Boy Harsher and many more for its fest in September.

And also — IMS Dubai announced that it will host its second ever event this November; Hugel and Flume and Rüfüs Du Sol made moves on the dance chart. We spoke with CAA’s Ferry Rais-Shaghaghi and Sphere’s Erin Calhoun about how they helped bring the Anyma residency to life, we spoke with PinkPantheress about her excellent Fancy That mixtape and we spoke with Carl Falk, the Swedish songwriter/producer and former Avicii collaborator who completed the production on the newly released Avicii track “Let’s Ride Away,” a country collab with vocals from Elle King.

Meanwhile, EDC Las Vegas starts today at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, and if you’re not going, you can still catch the action on the livestream.

And finally, amid an exceptionally busy release week, these are the best new tracks.