"A Rational Conversation" is a column by writer Eric Ducker in which he gets on iChat or Gchat or the phone or whatever with a special guest to examine a music-related subject that's entered the pop ...
The famous 1979 Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park in Chicago ended about as well as it began. What started as a rallying cry against disco from an aggrieved rock DJ turned into an evening of ...
Disco is finally getting its due, thanks to works like 2024's PBS docuseries "Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution" and a new book by a former Detroit journalist who has given the indelible music genre ...
The movie’s opening-credit sequence may be the most influential in movie history. While disco had been bubbling up from the underground, its moment to shine came with the release of the movie and ...
We've been back in the (Spotify) crates to shine a light on some of the lesser known gems guaranteed to get you out on the dancefloor for our weekly updated Disco Rarities playlist. This week we got a ...
While the airwaves often recycle the same iconic anthems from the 1970s, a vast and diverse catalog of equally brilliant music remains somewhat buried beneath the mainstream. This decade offered a ...
There’s no consensus about what was behind the violence at the Disco Demolition Night at the Chicago White Sox field in 1979. Were the thousands of people—mostly White—who stormed the field after ...
This article was originally published in SPIN on November 25, 2013. Way back in the mid-1980s, when the disco gods appeared over the Chicago skyline and proclaimed, “Let there be house,” his acolytes ...
Chrissy is a genre-bending DJ/producer with releases on Super Rhythm Trax, Chiwax, Classic, Freerange, Razor N Tape, Nervous, and Hypercolour. He specializes in Chicago house, disco, and ...
The documentary film Disco's Revenge digs into the music's history, beginning with its origins tied to the civil rights movement and the Stonewall riots, as well as its lasting impact across genres, ...
On a late summer night in Toronto, Tush brought its booming, electric live show back to life, for the band's first indoor gig since March 2020. Lead singer Kamilah Apong's honeyed vocals captivated ...
Balls Deep returns for a spring fling! Now happening on the second Saturday of every second month. Resident DJs Kris Steeves and The Robotic Kid play classic disco, new disco and disco house music 9pm ...