The Rolling Stones are often considered one of the best rock and roll bands of all time. That’s interesting, considering they often created music that wasn’t rock. The Rolling Stones dabbled in ...
Disco music. What a lark! The energetic genre that rose to fame and popularity in the 1970s helped get about a billion people on the dance floor (roller skates optional). Glittery disco balls met ...
Disco gets a bad rap. The popular musical genre from the 1970s, which was born of a diverse group of dancers and singers in city club scenes, was pigeonholed to be some vapid, whitewashed sound. But ...
Disco music originated in the 1960s at underground venues popular with LGBTQ+, Black, and Latinx Americans. Still, it wasn’t long before the subculture spread from clubs in New York and Philadelphia ...
Nobody talks about it anymore, but Paul McCartney made a few disco songs during the genre’s heyday. One of these tracks might be about God. Given Paul’s past with The Beatles, that feels like an ...
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 ...