The 1970s was the decade when it comes to disco music. People flocked to clubs with their dancing shoes on wanting to hear music that gave them the combination of joy and thrill. It was all the rage ...

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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, ...

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 Demolition Night, which happened 40 years ago today, is the day two genres were marked for death. Disco itself was one of them, of course: Chicago radio DJ Steve Dahl, infuriated that his ...

The sad premature death of Donna Summer reminds me of the time I was walking out of a Black Crowes show a few years ago. The band had ended its set with this then-new song, “I Ain’t Hiding,” which ...

When Kylie Minogue was a kid growing up in Australia, her parents played a lot of disco at home. As she and her siblings danced around the house to artists like ABBA and the Bee Gees, she says, she ...

Lincoln Park Coast Cultural District (LPCCD) announces the 18th consecutive Lincoln Park Music Festival Season (including two hybrid “Covid” seasons 14.1 and 14.2). Headlining the legendary House ...