This week’s NMF balances club heat with personal returns. Kaskade, EAZYBAKED, COSTA, Matroda, and Ruback push dance music into sleek, heavy, festival-ready territory, while Queens of the Stone Age, Tame Impala, Niko Rubio, Matt Hansen, and Sleeping With Sirens bring nostalgia, reinvention, and emotional weight to New Music Friday.
#NMF Dance: Our Picks For The Week
New music from Kaskade, COSTA, Ruback, and more on New Music Friday.
1. Kaskade, Brieanna Grace – “Stay For Love”
Kaskade teams up with Brieanna Grace on “Stay For Love,” a futuristic focus track from his new album ORIGIN. When it was first revealed through his standout Coachella Sahara Stage production, the album captured one of Kaskade’s most ambitious creative eras. Blending sleek electronic house with festival-sized adrenaline, “Stay For Love” feels just as powerful on a massive stage as it does through headphones.
2. EAZYBAKED, Distinct Motive – “What’s the motive”
EAZYBAKED and Distinct Motive make their long-building collaboration official with “What’s the motive,” a bass-heavy meeting point between left-field production and deep dubstep pressure. While shaped through shared stages, sold-out rooms, and crossover crowds, the track arrives less like a first introduction and more like a fan-tested statement. Indeed, adding to the momentum, the duo reunites for a B2B at Nocturnal Valley tonight after the release.
3. Costa – “Dimension”
COSTA makes his Deadbeats debut with “Dimension,” a bold first original release out via Zeds Dead’s label. Built on laser-cut arpeggiators, soaring synths, wonky bass, and explosive low-end drops, the track blends melodic precision with gritty dubstep force. More than a debut, “Dimension” marks COSTA stepping fully into his own sound, arriving ahead of a September 25 show tonight at The Roxy in Los Angeles.
4. Matroda – “Nights With You” (Feat. Sudakov)
Matroda marks his HARD TO EXPLAIN EP era with “Nights With You,” a deep late-night house cut featuring Sudakov. With hypnotic low vocals, smoky verses, shimmery after-hours synths, warm piano chords, and pulsing bassline plucks, the track blends cinematic ’80s mood with raw modern club energy. In fact, the Sultry and tight production of “Nights With You” turns after-dark tension into a smooth tech house groove.
5. Ruback – “Strike It”
Ruback returns to Interstellar Recordings with “Strike It,” a high-impact club track that pushes their melodic techno world into indie dance and electro territory. Driven by a commanding rap vocal, crunchy leads, hefty basslines, sharp cowbell, and textured LFO movement, the track builds groove and tension with festival-ready force. Overall, Bold, atmospheric, and full of swagger, “Strike It” marks a future-facing new chapter for the Brazilian twin duo.
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#NewMusicFriday: Our Picks for the Week
New music from Queens of the Stone Age, Niko Rubio, Matt Hansen, and more on New Music Friday.
1. Queens of The Stone Age – “Where The Goth Girls At?”
Queens of the Stone Age return with “Where the Goth Girls At?,” a sharp new single from Perfecth. Based on raw riffs, explosive hooks, and lush string and horn arrangements, the track turns Josh Homme’s Palm Desert memories into a punchy reflection on teenage love and nostalgia. The release lands as the band continues its stadium run this fall, starting 09/24 in Louisville.
2. Tame Impala, Fcukers – “Loser”
Tame Impala’s “Loser” gets thrown straight into the club with a blistering new remix from New York duo Fcukers. Fcukers rework “Loser” , one of Deadbeat’s defining tracks through their frenetic, dancefloor-minded lens. They successfully transform Tame Impala’s club-psych world into something sweatier, sharper, and impossible to stand still through. Meanwhile, Tame Impala prepares to bring the album home to Australia for a major arena run this October.
3. Niko Rubio – “dream”
Niko Rubio drops “dream,” a psychedelic, reggae-tinted single. A track for her declaration of independence. Following “kitty,” (previously highlighted in NMF HERE), “dream” moves from guilt and trip-hop heartache into something freer, stranger, and more self-possessed. Blending influences from London, Jamaica, and Los Angeles, “dream” invites listeners into Rubio’s trippy headphone world, where a solo walk through L.A. becomes a new kind of escape.
4. Matt Hansen – “unforgettable”
Matt Hansen releases Orchid (Deluxe) today, led by the focus track “unforgettable.” Warm, emotional, and built for the stage, the track feels like an autumn ballad made to light up a headline tour. With Hansen’s raspy yet powerful vocals, “unforgettable” already feels destined for a tearful live moment. Indeed, unforgettable‘s closing violin strings add a sweeping, almost classical sense of grandeur.
5. Sleeping With Sirens – “I’m Coming Home (Big Gulps)”
Sleeping With Sirens revisit their roots with “I’m Coming Home (Big Gulps),” now properly re-recorded as an acoustic version. As the first song the band ever wrote and the first video posted to their YouTube channel in 2009, the track carries a soft, nostalgic glow. This new studio leans into that unplugged tenderness, feeling tinted in the same vintage yellow warmth of its early video. At the same time, it giving the song a gentler, more timeless shine ahead of the band’s fall headline tour.
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