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, ...

Naya Beat reissues the first-ever British Asian electronic dance album—a joyous, loose-limbed romp through Punjabi-tinged disco, funk, psychedelia, and proto-acid house. Save this story Save this ...

Drawing from songs he wrote during the pandemic quarantine and demos recorded with longtime collaborator Sergio Rios, and others written while he was on the road, Return to Zero was in the making for ...

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 ...

Toronto’s own The Free Label says what fans can expect dance, sweat and disco when they take the stage for their homecoming ...

From the very first time someone shortened the term “discotheque” to “disco,” this dance music was poised to change the world. Every album and hit song was an outlet for voices that may never have ...

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