Disco

Disco 

Get Down Tonight: KC & The Sunshine Band’s 2nd LP at 50

July 30, 2025July 30, 2025 Kara Tucker 0 Comments 1975, 50th anniversary, Boogie Shoes, Get Down Tonight, Harry Wayne Casey, KC & The Sunshine Band, Saturday Night Fever, That's The Way (I Like It)

Celebrating a half-century of a disco essential

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Disco Pop Rock 

Jive Talkin’: The Bee Gees’ Main Course at 50

June 15, 2025June 15, 2025 Robin E. Cook 0 Comments 1975, 50th anniversary, Barry Gibb, Jive Talkin', Main Course, Maurice Gibb, Robin Gibb, The Bee Gees

Looking back on the album that Americanized the Brothers Gibb

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Alternative Rock Disco Indie Rock Pop Rock 

LISTEN: Jicks Drummer Jake Morris Shares ‘Paradise Cove’

September 24, 2024September 24, 2024 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2024, Jake Morris, Paradise Cove, Stephen Malkmus, Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks, Street Nights

New album from Stephen Malkmus sideman, The Long Goodbye, out in October

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Disco 

How Donna Summer’s Bad Girls Kept Disco Alive in the New Wave Era

April 25, 2024April 25, 2024 Kara Tucker 1 Comment 1979, 45th Anniversary, Bad Girls, Casablanca Records, Cher, Dim All The Lights, Disco, Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, Hot Stuff, Neil Bogart, Paul Bellotte

Looking back on 45 years of a dance-floor classic

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Disco Pop 

Savoir Faire: Chic’s C’est Chic at 45

August 12, 2023August 12, 2023 Kara Tucker 2 Comments ” “Le Freak (Freak Out), ” Chic, 1978, 45th Anniversary, Bernard Edwards, C'est Chic, Nile Rodgers, Savoir Faire

Why the iconic disco group’s second album still matters

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Disco Dub/Reggae Irish New Wave Pop Rock 

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day With The Philip Lynott Album 

March 17, 2023March 17, 2023 Ron Hart 0 Comments Dire Straits, Ireland, Irish, Mark Knopfler, Midge Ure, Phil Lynott, Robert Palmer, St. Patrick's Day, Thin Lizzy

Listen to the Thin Lizzy frontman’s second solo album right now

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Disco Films Funk Soundtracks and Film Scores 

Disco Inferno: Saturday Night Fever at 45

November 15, 2022February 19, 2024 Kara Tucker 0 Comments 1977, 45th Anniversary, How Deep Is Your Love, John Travolta, KC and the Sunshine Band, More Than A Woman, Night Fever, Saturday Night Fever, Stayin' Alive, The Bee Gees, The Trammps

How the music reflected the era in John Travolta’s cinematic star turn

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Art Pop Disco Dub/Reggae Funk New Wave Reggae Soul 

Grace Jones at 74: Surviving and Thriving in Her Eighth Decade

October 28, 2022July 21, 2024 Kathy Fennessy 1 Comment ” Chic, 74th birthday, Bahamas, Bernard Edwards, Beyonce, Brian Eno, Compass Point, David Bowie, Grace Jones, Hurricane, Iggy Pop, Inside Story, Jerry Hall, Jessica Lange, Liz Fraser, Massive Attack, Nile Rodgers, Seattle, Slave to the Rhythm, Studio 54, Tom Moulton, Warm Leatherette

Looking back on the career of the legendary singer/model/actress who defies convention

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Disco Pop Soul 

Diana Ross Thanks Liverpool

July 12, 2022February 19, 2024 Stephanie Hernandez 1 Comment ” Chic, Diana Ross, Diana Ross and the Supremes, England, I'm Coming Out, LGBTQ, Liverpool, Motown, Nile Rodgers, R&B, Thank You, Tour, UK

Originally scheduled to perform in 2020, the Motown legend finally performs for her eager English fanbase with classics-packed set

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Dance Disco Soul 

LISTEN: JNA Gets Her “Freak” On

July 3, 2022July 3, 2022 Ron Hart 0 Comments ” Chic, Diana Ross, Disco, Donna Summer, Freak, I Have Good Taste But For Some Reason I Like You, JNA, Seattle, Teddy Pendergrass

Seattle’s supreme Disco Queen turns up the heat on steamy single

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Disco Latin 

LISTEN: The “He Said She Said” of Brooklyn’s Underground System

April 22, 2022April 22, 2022 Ron Hart 0 Comments "Nobody Loves Me But You, Brooklyn, Disco, Domenica Fossati, EP, He Said She Said, Into The Fire, Peter Maston, single, Underground System

The group’s new EP, Into The Fire, comes out on May 6th

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adblock Dance Disco Dub/Reggae Funk New Wave Post-Punk 

Drive It In Between: Nightclubbing at 40

May 19, 2021May 19, 2021 Steve Holtje 0 Comments 1981, 40th Anniversary, Alex Sadkin, Barry Reynolds, Chris Blackwell, David Bowie, Demolition Man, Grace Jones, Iggy Pop, Marianne Faithfull, Nightclubbing, Pull Up To The Bumper

Grace Jones’ fifth album is “The Empire Strikes Back” of her Compass Point Trilogy

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Disco Funk Pop Soul 

Pop Top 40: Hot Soul Singles For The Week Ending February 28, 1981

April 7, 2021April 8, 2021 T.A. Inskeep 0 Comments A Taste of Honey, Disco, George Benson, Grover Washington Jr., Jermaine Jackson, Kool and the Gang, Pop, Pop Top 40, Smokey Robinson, Soul, The Gap Band, The Isley Brothers, The Jacksons, The Manhattans, The Sugar Hill Gang, Yarbrough & Peoples

40 years ago, post-disco R&B was on fire

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Dance Disco Pop 

Dancing On My Own: Robyn’s Body Talk Turns 10

December 26, 2020September 26, 2021 Ted Miller 0 Comments 2010, Atlantic, Body Talk, Body Talk Pt. 2, Robyn, Röyksopp

Despite some assembly required, the singer’s 2010 LP remains a pop masterpiece

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Disco Pop Soundtracks and Film Scores 

We Are Magic: Xanadu at 40

September 3, 2020August 9, 2022 Lily Moayeri 6 Comments 1980, 40th Anniversary, Cliff Richard, Electric Light Orchestra, Gene Kelly, Jeff Lynne, Magic, Michael Beck, Olivia Newton-John, The Tubes, Xanadu

Why the flawless ELO-assisted soundtrack deserves to be separated from Olivia Newton-John’s head-scratching post-Grease career move

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