This week in dance music: Salt-N-Pepa’s DJ Spinderalla became the first female DJ ever inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame during the induction ceremony in Los Angeles last weekend. Fred again.. took a well-earned week off from his 10 shows/10 songs/10 weeks tour behind his USB002 album and Alison Wonderland welcomed her second son, calling her newborn “very chill.”
Milk & Honey Music + Sports acquired UK management firm Bigfoot Music Management, along with its client roster including Adam Beyer and Joris Voorn, with Milk + Honey citing underground electronic music as a “top priority” for the company. SoCal’s Lightning in a Bottle dropped a whopper of a lineup for its Memorial Day weekend festival and Ultra Music Festival Miami announced the phase two bill for its 2026 event in March, with the preceding industry gathering Winer Music Conference also returning in 2026.
Damian Lazarus unveiled the island of Bali as the third 2026 location for his longstanding Day Zero party, Ninajirachi won a pair of trophies at Australia’s Triple J Awards and Robyn released her first new solo music in seven years, a track called “Dopamine.”
We also spoke with the head of Costa Rica’s Envision Festival about the flurry of changes the event is set to unveil in 2026, updates that include improved water, compost and toilet systems, an expanded medical team, a greater emphasis on local staff and supplies and much more.
“It’s a hyper-focus on safety, on our medical team and on analyzing every which way that we can do that,” said the event’s co-founder Josh Wendel. “You wouldn’t want to put this on the lineup poster, but health and sanitation are our headliners this year.”
And finally, these are the best new dance tracks of the week.
