When Lee Anderson opened the Light Club Lamp Shop in 2014, he didn’t intend for it to be a music venue. Instead, he envisioned the extension of his Burlington-based coffeehouse/music venue Radio Bean ...

When Jim Hopkins launched the San Francisco Disco Preservation Society four years ago, not everyone took his history-focused endeavor seriously. Nearly four decades after the genre’s fast rise and ...

“A PARTY, not a club night at a club,” promised the announcement of the Last Party, legendary New York disco DJ Nicky Siano’s 60th birthday celebration. A party is what the lively intergenerational ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Forty years ago, on July 12, 1979, what was supposed to be a wacky promotional stunt by shock-rock DJ Steve Dahl to sell tickets ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - For anyone who dances to their own beat, the Grog Shop's Silent Disco is for you. This Friday, Jan. 20 at 9 p.m., six local DJs will spin tunes to flood the dancefloor of the ...

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, ...

Known for its celebration of glamour, vice, and dancing, disco music was wildly popular 50 years ago, until a double punch of cultural backlash and commodification supposedly destroyed it. Today, ...

The video for Escort’s new single, “City Life” featuring Fonda Rae, evokes the experience of a night out in New York with the kind of lovingly executed detail that anyone who has ever gone out in the ...

Photo by: "Disco Sucks" DJ Steve Dahl at the Disco Demolition in Comiskey Park on June 12, 1979. Photo by Getty Images/Paul Natkin. In 1979, Chicago’s music culture, disparate and expansive as ever, ...

The groovy music, the big hair, and the dance moves have all the characteristics of a fad: extremely popular in their 1970s heyday, then lost to history as culture moved on. But disco was as much a ...