If someone says they’re not a fan of 70s disco songs, there’s a good chance they’re not being truthful. Despite the backlash the dance genre has gotten through the years, who wouldn’t boogie oogie ...
The 1970s was the decade when it comes to disco music. People flocked to clubs with their dancing shoes on wanting to hear music that gave them the combination of joy and thrill. It was all the rage ...
Disco Demolition Night, which happened 40 years ago today, is the day two genres were marked for death. Disco itself was one of them, of course: Chicago radio DJ Steve Dahl, infuriated that his ...
Disco music was one of the predominant forms of pop music in the 1970s. While subsequent generations made disco songs, the genre never again reached the same level of cultural saturation it did during ...
Disco music originated in the 1960s at underground venues popular with LGBTQ+, Black, and Latinx Americans. Still, it wasn’t long before the subculture spread from clubs in New York and Philadelphia ...
Last week, Billboard published a list of the top disco songs of all time, as chosen by one of the genre’s great architects, producer/songwriter/performer Giorgio Moroder. Moroder is probably best ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Few R&B groups embodied the late ’70s blend of funk, disco, and soul quite like Heatwave. Formed in the mid-1970s, the group became internationally known for their infectious grooves ...
Chicago-based hip-hop artist Ric Wilson is on a spiritual campaign to usher in a new era of disco music, one that’s primed for dance floors and rooted in Black radical traditions. The charismatic ...