There was once an indelible tension between rock and disco, culminating in a so-called “disco demolition” night in 1979 that devolved into a riot. As the decades have rolled past, however, much of ...

If you lived the relatively brief era when it ruled the world in the late 1970s, it’s hard to remain unbiased about disco. For some, it was the soundtrack of their coming-of-age years. Others ran as ...

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, ...

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 certainly still ruled the airwaves in 1979. But these four songs from classic rock acts broke through to No. 1 anyway.

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 ...

Here are 21 of the songs we’ll take with us from this year into 2021 — where hopefully we can dance together again. Photo-Illustration: Vulture, Getty Images and YouTube This was the sort of year that ...

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 ...

What do we mean by “dance songs”? Good question. In a sense, any song that ever got any one person moving in any perceptible direction is a dance song. The Beatles made great dance songs — as did ...

There was once an indelible tension between rock and disco, culminating in a so-called "disco demolition" night in 1979 that devolved into a riot. As the decades have rolled past, however, much of ...