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, ...

(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 ...

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 ...

Mark Henrichs isn’t your ordinary DJ. His high-energy sets as Boogie Lights find him bouncing around stage and jamming on a raised electric drum set while simultaneously spinning infectious dance ...

Last week, Billboard published a list of the top disco songs of all time, as chosen by one of the genre’s great architects, producer/songwriter/performer Giorgio Moroder. Moroder is probably best ...

There was once an indelible tension between rock and disco, culminating in a so-called "disco demolition" night in 1979 that devolved into a riot. As the decades have rolled past, however, much of ...

Exactly one year ago, Mark Henrichs decided to dedicate himself full-time to Boogie Lights, his music project – and it paid off big time. “It’s been great!” the bubbly performer says. Henrichs always ...

She had heard the Donna Summer songs, she had watched John Travolta ooze across a dance floor in “Saturday Night Fever” and she had amassed an impressive collection of 12-inch dance mixes. But in the ...

It began with a new car, which came with a bunch of new radio stations. Driving around and surfing channels, Skye Lewis stopped on one called “The Groove.” Those days in August 2019 kicked off a disco ...

DJ Foggy Notion is also a visual artist and drummer for Red Bank rockers the Ribeye Brothers. Tim Cronin was the original drummer for intergalactic hard rockers Monster Magnet — his band the Ribeye ...