(ThyBlackMan.com) Few R&B groups embodied the late ’70s blend of funk, disco, and soul quite like Heatwave. Formed in the mid-1970s, the group became internationally known for their infectious grooves ...

Naya Beat reissues the first-ever British Asian electronic dance album—a joyous, loose-limbed romp through Punjabi-tinged disco, funk, psychedelia, and proto-acid house. Save this story Save this ...

Borrowing from disco, electro-soul, boogie, and 1980s R&B, vibe commissioner Calvin Harris’ second volume of frictionless summer jams has the staying power of vape smoke at Coachella. Harris’ best ...

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, ...

It was sometime in the latter part of the 1960s that R&B gave way to soul and, by extension, funk. It wasn't a scene so much at first as it was a grouping of like-minded artists taking their music to ...

The group’s funk, disco and pop songs have been sampled over 1,800 times, but haven’t collected the same accolades as many contemporaries. A new boxed set takes a look back. By Steve Knopper “Do ...