When Lee Anderson opened the Light Club Lamp Shop in 2014, he didn’t intend for it to be a music venue. Instead, he envisioned the extension of his Burlington-based coffeehouse/music venue Radio Bean ...
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 ...
Starting his DJ career in 1978 at the age of 13, DJ and producer Jim Hopkins has been an integral part of the Bay Area music scene for almost four decades. Fascinated by the art of editing and ...
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, ...
In the early days of disco, DJ music was fairly simple. All a DJ really did was manipulate the music with turntables – scratching, mixing, cross-cutting and the like. But as time went on, some DJs ...
In the great traditions of DJ Uncle Al, Disco Dave, and Milton “Butterball” Smith, DJ Roliboy is a Miami street DJ known for dropping tremendo bass. He was posted at the Graffé Cafe in Wynwood during ...
On July 12, 1979, a Chicago rock DJ hosted a so-called Disco Demolition during a break at a White Sox double header. It was the rumble heard 'round the pop world, including in North Carolina, where ...
“A PARTY, not a club night at a club,” promised the announcement of the Last Party, legendary New York disco DJ Nicky Siano’s 60th birthday celebration. A party is what the lively intergenerational ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Forty years ago, on July 12, 1979, what was supposed to be a wacky promotional stunt by shock-rock DJ Steve Dahl to sell tickets ...
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 ...
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 ...
For many LGBTQ people, the familiar sounds of four-on-the-floor kick drums, pulsating bass lines and hi-hat beats have always meant more than just elements of a danceable piece of music. Moving to the ...