The iconic track remains a dance anthem over four decades later.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Synthesizing the Silk Roads: Uzbek Disco, Tajik Folktronica, Uyghur Rock & Crimean Tatar Jazz from 1980s Soviet Central Asia is out now through Ostinato Records. By Katie Bain The former USSR might ...