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Kanye West on his 2013 album ‘Yeezus’.Now, Leary has released his first piece of new material since 2014’s ‘Waterfall’ EP. ‘Ultra’ begins tranquilly, before discordant synths cut through and a beat begins to build.The track comes accompanied by a slow-motion visual of a breaking wave in O’ahu Waimea, Hawaii.

Django Django drummer/producer Dave Maclean has launched a new house music project under the moniker Hugo Paris.Maclean, who last released a full-length album with Django Django in 2018 (‘Marble Skies’), revealed that his first love is house and techno music and that he’d always intended to make dance music.“I started DJing and making hip hop, dancehall, house and techno beats on a sampler and 4-track in the mid ‘90s,” Dave said [quotes via Dork].“My love of house and techno can be traced back

While clubs are still shuttered and festivals continue dropping from the calendar, the dance world is keeping it moving.

New Music Friday is intense. Hundreds of songs drop from artists around the world, and you're supposed to somehow find the best ones.

SOPHIE has debuted new music in a laser-heavy livestream performance titled ‘HEAV3N SUSPENDED’, broadcast on YouTube and Twitch late last night (July 9).The 20-minute livestream is comprised largely of new material and features collaborations with both Shygirl and Cecile Believe. The stream opens with big waves of ambient synths before giving way to hypnotic, future bass-oriented techno.

For the better part of a decade, New York-based DJ and producer SHYBOI has been delightfully twisting our imaginations of what club and techno music can sound like when joined with musical elements of the African diaspora. Born in Jamaica, SHYBOI's music typically transforms the music of their home island with that of electronic music born in the U.S.

Glastonbury sets. Across the weekend, the producer brought his stylish techno to a host of revellers, playing the bombastic spectacle that is Pangea (2019’s installation included a swinging crane and a whole lot of pyro) and the Beat Hotel closing party.

Kevin Saunderson has been part of dance music culture since the inception of the scene in the late '70s. At age 17, he attended the hallowed New York venues Paradise Garage and The Loft, where he was not only exposed to the house and disco being spun by future legends such as Larry Levan and David Mancuso, but to the social diversity of the burgeoning genre."You’d see different races and colors, some of everybody," Saunderson, now 55, tells Billboard Dance.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorEarlier this week, it was announced that TBS had given the greenlight to “Celebrity Show-Off,” which sees celebrities compete to see who can produce the most compelling content from their own homes. The show was produced remotely and will air June 23 at 10 p.m.

Aluna Francis has discussed her decision to record a solo album without AlunaGeorge partner George Reid. She says that she felt “a little bit self-conscious trying to drag George through my own process of self-discovery”, but that their project together is still ongoing.“People have always asked me if [going solo] was something I’d thought about, and I always thought they were mad, because what me and George have is so fruitful” she says in an interview with The Forty-Five.

He has joined a host of people covering the song, from The Cure to Jose Gonzalez

Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande's "Rain On Me" is, no doubt, already a club-ready pop banger. But in the grand tradition of pop divas like Madonna, Mariah and of course Gaga and Ariana themselves, the song will likely get a few remix treatments in order to deliver it further into clubland. (Or, as it currently stands, livestream land.)

New Music Friday is intense. Hundreds of songs drop from artists around the world, and you're supposed to somehow find the best ones.

New Music Friday is intense. Hundreds of songs drop from artists around the world, and you're supposed to somehow find the best ones. It's fun work, but it's time-consuming -- so we at Billboard Dance want to give you a hand. Each week, we sift through the streams and dig in the digital crates to present the absolute must-hears from the wide breadth of jams.

In many ways, Mike Huckaby was the glue that bound Detroit’s electronic music scenes together.

A German court on Monday closed a trial over the mass panic at the 2010 Love Parade techno music festival in which 21 people died, ending the proceedings without a verdict after two and a half years.The Duisburg state court ended the trial after 184 court sessions, news agency dpa reported.

Mike Huckaby, an influential DJ in the Detroit techno and house music scene, died Friday (April 24) after a lengthy hospitalization stemming from a stroke. He was 54.Huckaby suffered a mild stroke in early March, according to his brother, Craig Huckaby, the Detroit Free Press reports.

Mike Huckaby, an influential DJ in the Detroit techno and house music scene, died Friday (April 24) after a lengthy hospitalization stemming from a stroke. He was 54.

Disclosure, Gilles Peterson and Hudson Mohawke have paid tribute to the Detroit DJ

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Justin Timberlake has already screened Trolls World Tour for his biggest critic. We're, of course, talking about his 5-year-old son, Silas Randall Timberlake.

Trolls World Tour should have been in movie theaters everywhere right now, but Universal Pictures decided to release the movie on digital since all of the theaters are closed!

Back in 2006, deadmau5 and fellow mau5trap producer Steve Duda satirized the absurdity of the then-burgeoning dance scene with "This Is the Hook," their debut single as BSOD. "It's catchy, you like it," implored the vocoded vocals, "now it is time for the breakdown." As it turns out, the distorted techno anthem was catchy and we did like it, and we liked the duo's

A German court on Tuesday proposed ending a criminal trial resulting from a fatal mass panic at the 2010 Love Parade techno music festival, citing questions over when the proceedings could resume in light of the coronavirus pandemic.

A new clip has arrived for Trolls World Tour, which will be released on-demand in an unprecedented move by Universal on Monday. This will be the first movie originally set to be released theatrically to land on the home format due to the coronavirus outbreak.

If you survived the ‘90s rave scene, give yourself a medal. Make it a large one. For those who were there (and probably don’t remember), it was a Renaissance, the space between indie and the early, hallowed Hacienda days, the grimy warehouse parties of the late ‘80s and the megaclubs of Ibiza.

With cities on lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus, everyone is adjusting to a new way of life. For dance music obsessives, the communal experience of the dancefloor is on hold. As much as we miss the club, DJs and promoters around the world are d

Sounds born at DIY warehouse parties are already fueling big-ticket events in dance music’s capitals. But these smaller cities are the underground’s next big scenes, launching inventive artists, DJs and new sounds.

As the coronavirus shuts down festivals around the globe, your headphones and at-home speakers are still safe places in which to delve into fresh sounds by new artists. This month, there are plenty of them, with sounds on deck from a quadruple threat of up-and-coming producers making waves in the worlds of techno, disco and more.