After running their luxury leatherwear brand, The Mighty Company, for the last eight years, Jessie Willer and Hanover Booth have learned a thing or two about what works on the dance floor. They say a ...
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 ...
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 ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Disco is a genre of music that people seem to feel passionately ...
The Jacksons’ late-Seventies albums — recorded between the time they ditched the Jackson 5 moniker and Michael Jackson became solo superstar — will get a reappraisal in February in the form of ...
"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 ...
The War on Disco explores the culture war that erupted over the spectacular rise of disco music. Originating in underground Black and gay clubs, disco had unseated rock as America’s most popular music ...
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 ...
On July 12, 1979, a Chicago rock DJ hosted a so-called Disco Demolition during a break at a White Sox double header. It was the rumble heard 'round the pop world, including in North Carolina, where ...