The ’70s was a time to be alive in the United States and parts of Europe. When disco fever hit the music scene, as a result of dance music emerging from the US nightlife, the bump, and the hustle ...

Disco! The very word hustles you back to the 1970s, the decade in which it was gloriously born in the loft parties and basement clubs of New York, where it blossomed into a national obsession and ...

Chicago-based hip-hop artist Ric Wilson is on a spiritual campaign to usher in a new era of disco music, one that’s primed for dance floors and rooted in Black radical traditions. The charismatic ...

Pop vocal trio the Bee Gees performing at the Music for UNICEF Concert at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, January, 1979. The 1970s were an eclectic time for music and cultural ...

The famous 1979 Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park in Chicago ended about as well as it began. What started as a rallying cry against disco from an aggrieved rock DJ turned into an evening of ...

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 ...

ABBA was formed in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1972. The group’s members were Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. They made happy, easy-to-sing-along pop music that ...

When Dave Fisher saw “Saturday Night Fever” back in the day, it transformed him. “That movie changed everything for me,” said Fisher, who lives in Shelby Township. “I practiced the dance moves in the ...

Kylie Minogue released Disco, her 15th album, in 2020 and it couldn't come soon enough. "It felt like this day would never arrive," Minogue told Double J's Zan Rowe recently. "[The] year has just been ...

Singer-composer Bappi Lahiri (Alokesh Lahiri), a child prodigy, made his tabla debut at the age of four in a recital at Kolkata's Eden Gardens. Aparesh and Bansari Lahiri, his parents, were well-known ...

"Tell Commander Lewis," stranded astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) says to a fellow officer from his abandoned post on Mars, "she has terrible taste in music." After a sudden, vicious storm injures ...

Any retelling of the 1970s disco boom has to reckon with Disco Demolition Night, a shameful promotional event staged by Chicago shock-jock DJ Steve Dahl between games of a White Sox doubleheader on ...