This week in dance music: We visited Zedd at his house in L.A. to chat with him about his passion for latte-making, a hobby that isn’t casual. Upon arrival we found a veritable chemistry lab worth of coffee-making equipment, which the producer used to prepare a perfect cup. Later in the interview he also talked about his massive Coachella 2025 performance, the ten-year anniversary or his album True Colors, his take on AI and why a potential collaboration with the ladies of BLACKPINK is “very much” on his radar.
“I still would love to collaborate with BLACKPINK,” he told us. “I don’t have anything specific right now, but I do have a song that I made that I think would be incredible with BLACKPINK.”
Meanwhile, we spoke with deadmau5 about his pet cats, which he calls “the most non-judgmental conduits of grief or stress.” John Summit shared his complete 54-song setlist from the debut Experts Only residency at Hï Ibiza last weekend, a show he says he was “pretty nervous” about, and we did a deep dive with Vivian Belzaguy Hunter, Ultra Music Festival’ director of sustainability, about Mission: Home, a program that diverted more than 50 tons of waste from landfills this year alone.
Also, Nashville’s two-day electronic festival Deep Tropics announced the programming for its annual sustainability conference happening ahead of the fest and PinkPantheress opened up about her OCD on the podcast Therapuss, saying that “if I don’t consider myself a certain standard at what I’m doing, I don’t see the point doing it… That’s something birthed from my OCD, by not being satisfied by anything less than perfect.”
And finally, these are the best new dance tracks of the week.
