Casey and classic era bassist Richard Finch were the 1973-launched band’s primary songwriters. They penned eternal dancefloor fillers like “Get Down Tonight,” “That’s the Way (I Like It),” “⁠ (Shake, ...

Chicago house, hyperpop, classic ’70s disco: The pop star’s new album is a tour through some of the genre’s most well-known touchstones as well as more underground sounds. By Michaelangelo Matos ...

Disco is finally getting its due, thanks to works like 2024's PBS docuseries "Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution" and a new book by a former Detroit journalist who has given the indelible music genre ...

If you lived the relatively brief era when it ruled the world in the late 1970s, it’s hard to remain unbiased about disco. For some, it was the soundtrack of their coming-of-age years. Others ran as ...

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 ...

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, ...

Beyoncé’s sample of Donna Summer on “Summer Renaissance” won’t just call back to disco’s greatest — it’ll also call back to a time Beyoncé interpolated the “Last Dance” singer. Though “Naughty Girl” ...

If you fancy yourself an electronic music scholar you have to know Italo disco. At first listen, some might sound really cheesy, but it's an integral block in the edifice of current electronic dance ...

Ellen Allien is a German electronic musician and producer, and the founder of the techno label BPitch Control. Kraftwerk, “Das Model” Biggest input for my ears when I was a little girl. They changed ...