Disco! The very word hustles you back to the 1970s, the decade in which it was gloriously born in the loft parties and basement clubs of New York, where it blossomed into a national obsession and ...
Ah, the 1970s: a time of free love, groovy tunes, and disco. Beneath glittering disco balls, youth of the time found sexual liberation, musical freedom, and pure, unadulterated fun as dance music ...
“And so it’s me really listening to music about a thousand times, every song, and honing on the story we’re telling, the narrative, and also really what the music is telling my body to do.” Since the ...
Disco is finally getting its due, thanks to works like 2024's PBS docuseries "Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution" and a new book by a former Detroit journalist who has given the indelible music genre ...
The David Byrne-Fatboy Slim disco-pop musical “Here Lies Love” began life as a concept album, before becoming a hit Off-Broadway production at the Public Theater. On July 20, the show, which tells the ...
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Explore the iconic "four-on-the-floor" beat and its impact on genres like disco, house, and pop. From disco's golden era to its resurgence in modern pop, Jojo and Linda trace the four-on-the-floor ...
When Kylie Minogue was a kid growing up in Australia, her parents played a lot of disco at home. As she and her siblings danced around the house to artists like ABBA and the Bee Gees, she says, she ...
The ’70s was a time to be alive in the United States and parts of Europe. When disco fever hit the music scene, as a result of dance music emerging from the US nightlife, the bump, and the hustle ...
Has there ever been a musical genre more deserving of a glorious coffee table book than disco? In his new book "Disco: Music, Movies, and Mania Under the Disco Ball" (Rizzoli, 2024), gay writer Frank ...