Author Frank DeCaro takes a serious and fun look at the style and social impact of disco, the 1970s music that remains ...

Disco's death was greatly exaggerated, argue the filmmakers behind "Disco's Revenge," a new documentary that aims to ...

Disco music originated in the 1960s at underground venues popular with LGBTQ+, Black, and Latinx Americans. But it wasn't ...

After tours with Black Pumas and Chromeo, Chicago's "Disco Ric" is giving 2024 a grand finale with "America Runs On Disco," a ...

In the film, disco demolition, that was a non-negotiable that had to be in there, because if we're looking at the downfall, that's a key moment. Chapman: Obviously we do reach into the modern day.

Suddenly every musician, from ABBA to Rod Stewart, seemingly had a disco offering. Disco Demolition in 1979 offered dramatic evidence of a popular backlash, and in 1980, the Grammy Awards awarded ...

"Frankie Knuckles actually popularized that statement, that House music is disco's revenge." Jackson talked to host Erin Allen about the attempted "demolition" of disco in Chicago and the rise of ...

He went to work for his father, the owner of the Chicago White Sox. Mike Veeck became infamous for Disco Demolition Night, which remains the worst-case example of a promotion gone horribly wrong.

leading to 1979’s infamous ‘Disco Demolition Night’). But, as with so many cultural phenomena, disco was built from the underground up. Before mega-clubs such as New York’s Studio 54 ...

Disco Demolition Night, when disco records were blown up at a baseball double-header in Chicago in 1979, was really a show of what we now call “toxic masculinity.” (Editor's note: The stunt ...