A late-'70s disco-funk anthem didn't just light up dance floors. It helped launch an all-female family group into stardom. Sister Sledge quickly became a standout singing group of the disco era, ...

Just last month, I found myself shoulder to shoulder with strangers in the basement of a New York club, screaming, shouting ...

There was no shortage of groundbreaking funk and soul classics in the 1970s. But in 1977, several tracks reflected dance music’s ongoing evolution. Using a combination of old and new production ...

It's arguably the most reviled pop cultural movement of the last fifty years, but for those who lived through its glory days, disco was a damn good time. Musically, it was an offshoot of the funk ...

Synthesizing the Silk Roads: Uzbek Disco, Tajik Folktronica, Uyghur Rock & Crimean Tatar Jazz from 1980s Soviet Central Asia is out now through Ostinato Records. By Katie Bain The former USSR might ...

There’s something very strange about disco in 2026. Just recently the electronica producer Tudor Acid made a concept album built around the idea that turn-of-the-millennium French disco-house and the ...

A new compilation from Habibi Funk highlights the old and interweaving sounds of Algerian coladera, Lebanese AOR, Egyptian disco, Moroccan funk and more. Save this story Save this story In an ...

If you felt the world stop turning for a moment in July, it’s because Beyoncé dropped her new album, Renaissance. Rolling Stone has described her as the world’s “greatest living entertainer”, with a ...

Considering its rhythmic complexities and instrumental demands, at first glance funk music would appear to make for an unlikely partner for punk rock. Add its focus on the bass and drums, its mostly ...

She had heard the Donna Summer songs, she had watched John Travolta ooze across a dance floor in “Saturday Night Fever” and she had amassed an impressive collection of 12-inch dance mixes. But in the ...