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 ...

Toronto’s own The Free Label says what fans can expect dance, sweat and disco when they take the stage for their homecoming ...

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, ...

Summer’s smooth blend of R&B, soul, pop, funk, rock, disco and electronica launched numerous chart-topping hits in the ‘70s ...

Justin Myers, who lives in Plano, is a project manager in tech by day and a part-time DJ with a passion for vinyl. This is part of an Arts Access series called “Home is where the art is,” which gives ...

I was always deeply influenced by Afro-Rock music. This is because of the great artistic fingerprint of my first band, Kongas, in which I spent four years before starting my solo career with Love in C ...

While some people are content to spend Sunday nights at home, a group of San Francisco DJs have made Sunday the night to hit the dance floor. The tight but amorphous crew behind Sweater Funk digs deep ...

In the early seventies, when Vince Aletti was a young music critic in New York, looking to make a name for himself, the biggest music magazines at the time—Rolling Stone, Creem—were dominated by ...

The Illustrious Blacks (above) describe their origins in galactic terms: Manchildblack and Monstah Black were kings of separate planets, until an “inexplicable ultramagnetic pull” brought them ...

Here's a tour of the uptown funk of the early '80s with songs that listeners have heard alluded to in the Mark Ronson/Bruno Mars hit, some fleetingly, some more obviously. By Sean Ross Part of the ...