Certain country songs recall a shinier time in life and in music. Certain guitar licks from hits by Thomas Rhett and Keith Urban are smoother than pressed polyester. The foot-shuffling beats driving ...

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, ...

Key elements of the disco sound continued to pop up for another decade or so (credit work by Nile Rodgers of Chic after a shift to the producer’s chair) before disco was largely relegated to history.

"Father of Disco" Giorgio Moroder selects 34 of his favorite songs from the genre he helped pioneer. By Giorgio Moroder There’s a reason they call Giorgio Moroder the “Father of Disco.” The Italian ...

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 ...

Fifty years ago, I heard the future in a disco. It wasn't a psychic experience; it was the mixing of African-American, Latinx and LGBT communities that changed what the world was listening to forever.

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 ...

Disco: Two syllables that often send shivers up a rocker’s spine. And yet there’s enough rock/disco crossover for us to deliver the Top 10 Classic Rock Disco Songs. After all, in the late-’70s, the ...