If someone says they’re not a fan of 70s disco songs, there’s a good chance they’re not being truthful. Despite the backlash the dance genre has gotten through the years, who wouldn’t boogie oogie ...

Pop vocal trio the Bee Gees performing at the Music for UNICEF Concert at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, January, 1979. The 1970s were an eclectic time for music and cultural ...

As their 1980 movie puts it, you Can’t Stop the Music of the Village People members. The guys won Favorite Disco Band at 1979’s American Music Awards, they’ve appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone ...

Disco Demolition Night, which happened 40 years ago today, is the day two genres were marked for death. Disco itself was one of them, of course: Chicago radio DJ Steve Dahl, infuriated that his ...

Songs are time machines. Music has an incredible power to unlock memories, and the right tune can instantly transport us to another era. Join us on a nostalgia trip through the mega-hits of the 1970s, ...

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 ...

Faith Prince, Kevin Chamberlin and Kerry Butler headline the cast of the new musical "Disaster!," a comedy that uses hits of the 1970s to spoof disaster movies. (Jeremy Daniel Photography) To judge by ...

Tributosaurus, one of Chicago’s best-kept secrets, never especially cool, not exactly challenging, pushing nearly 25 years as a mainstay of local bars and theaters, without an original song to their ...

Drawing from songs he wrote during the pandemic quarantine and demos recorded with longtime collaborator Sergio Rios, and others written while he was on the road, Return to Zero was in the making for ...

‘Disco sucks” was the war cry of late-’70s rock ’n’ roll America, but the contest was never much of a war. It was more of a skirmish. Maybe a schism. And whatever it was, the good guys lost: You can ...

The decade of the '70s was perhaps rock's most interesting. This era began as a requiem, with final albums by the '60s legends like the Beatles and Simon & Garfunkel, but quickly developed an attitude ...