SEATTLE — It’s flashback time here in the land of Hendrix. Pulsating colored lights play over a parquet dance floor as disco’s signature “four on the floor” drum beat propels lyrics of unbearable ...

Disco is a music genre and a subculture born out of a dance floor and pioneered by Black musicians, DJs and producers in the 1970s and early 1980s. The word disco comes from the Italian discoteca, ...

Sacred Bones Records, which recently announced plans to reissue four Seventies albums by Mort Garson, has shared the electronic pioneer’s unreleased song “Dragonfly.” “We chose this song to really ...

This British disco act was all the rage in Europe in the 1970s with the release of the 1975 disco hit “I’m On Fire”. It was major radio fodder throughout Europe and even peaked at no. 4 on the UK ...

Have you heard of the obscure subgenre known as mutant disco? If not, you’re not alone in that respect. This genre is also known as avant-funk or punk-funk, and it makes sense why. Mutant Disco is all ...

It's arguably the most reviled pop cultural movement of the last fifty years, but for those who lived through its glory days, disco was a damn good time. Musically, it was an offshoot of the funk ...

Western New Yorkers of a certain age may recall the chant “Junction West, the baddest group from east to west,” a rallying cry to get up and move – at proms and school dances where the R&B/disco ...

The group’s funk, disco and pop songs have been sampled over 1,800 times, but haven’t collected the same accolades as many contemporaries. A new boxed set takes a look back. By Steve Knopper “Do ...

Year Zero was 1969, when DJ Francis Grasso began playing records at New York club The Sanctuary, the night spot which filled the space created by the closure of the proto-disco Salvation. Stringing ...