While working as a session musician in the early 1970s, drummer Earl Young created a unique rhythm that would change the course of popular music. Known today as the “four on the floor,” this simple ...

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Born in 1970, I’m a child of the decade of disco music. Despite those who might wish disco as a music genre would disappear forever, I’m a firm believer it’s around to stay. Disco has been on my mind ...

In the three-part docuseries Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution, now streaming on PBS, directors and producers Louise Lockwood and Shianne Brown follow the turn of the glitterball from the gay and ...

Since its launch back in 2019, Disco Elysium has taken on a larger-than-life presence. The experimental, moody, unexpectedly hilarious CRPG was immediately compared to genre classics like Planescape ...

Many of the paired dances of the twentieth century—the foxtrot, the waltz, the Lindy Hop—reflected the binary gender dynamics of the day: men led and women followed, on the dance floor as at home.

Explore the culture war that erupted over the spectacular rise of disco music. The War on Disco explores the culture war that erupted over the rise of Disco music. The hostility came to a head on July ...

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 ...