Trogdor, the dragon who occasionally shows up in Homestar Runner cartoons, has a complicated musical legacy. On the one hand, songs about dragons burninating the countryside and the thatched roof ...
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 ...
Disco never got enough credit. Recognizing this, the Library of Congress launched “Bibliodiscotheque” in March, a disco tribute to a genre that was — and is — still routinely derided. This weekend, ...
Disco Fingers sounds like the name of a club drug invented by Chris Morris but is, in fact, a new music creation app for iPad that makes composing tunes cartoonishly simple. The three-person Norwegian ...
If you lived the relatively brief era when it ruled the world in the late 1970s, it’s hard to remain unbiased about disco. For some, it was the soundtrack of their coming-of-age years. Others ran as ...
Singer-songwriter-producer Nona Hendryx was already a successful performer as a member of Labelle and a New York resident when the scene began to form. Labelle’s funky, raunchy 1975 hit song “Lady ...
Disco never died. The people who attended the Disco Demolition Night at Chicago’s Comiskey Park might have thought they were killing it. And those that have watched the footage might point to that ...
Disco music’s time in the sun may have passed, but the legacy of “The Hustle,” a mega hit in the genre, lives on Alice George - Museums Correspondent On April 18, 1975, Van McCoy and the Soul City ...