Disco music originated in the 1960s at underground venues popular with LGBTQ+, Black, and Latinx Americans. Still, it wasn’t long before the subculture spread from clubs in New York and Philadelphia ...

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, ...

Something magical happens when we dance,” says the DJ ahead of Horse Meat Disco’s D.C. party on Saturday, April 18.

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 ...

On stage, above the dancers and high steppers, DJ Pete Rendon built a steady beat like a chef bringing a savory dish to a boil. As he spun songs from disco divas, couples started getting up out of ...

Could partying be considered… a social good? Peter Croce, head of Detroit’s Rocksteady Disco record label, makes the case. “I genuinely believe this in my least cynical moments,” he says. “I do think ...

Patrick Adams may not have been a household name, but the work he did on a mountain of disco, soul, R&B and hip-hop records throughout the 1970s and ‘80s left an indelible mark on global dance music ...

As smoke filled the dimly lit concrete dance floor, more than 50 DJs powered 17 days of high-energy sets inside the Super Secret Silent Disco exhibit at the California State Fair. For entry, fairgoers ...

Riding the success of “Good Day in Harlem,” Fergie Baby is positioning himself as Uptown’s proverbial next up. 50 minutes ago Although there are other dance music subgenres Black people are behind ...

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 ...