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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

1975 arrived just like any other year. But by the time the 12 months of the decade’s middle ended, popular music was moving ...

Nothing hits quite like music from the mid-1970s. If you’re a fan of that particular era of rock and pop, you’ve got a virtually endless stream of bands and musicians to dive into, much more than we ...

Yes, the 1975 got their name from a Jack Kerouac book. No, Matt Healy doesn’t remember which one. And yes, this can be seen as romantic but is mostly immature, like being 15-years-old and naming your ...

Disco! The very word hustles you back to the 1970s, the decade in which it was gloriously born in the loft parties and basement clubs of New York, where it blossomed into a national obsession and ...

In the mid-to-late 1970s, a few one-hit wonders hit the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100. These are just a few of those amazing tunes.

As opening movie scenes go, it’s a memorable one, featuring John Travolta as 19-year-old disco king Tony Manero in black leather jacket and red wing-collared shirt, strutting peacock-like along the ...