When Frankie Knuckles famously described house music as disco's revenge, it set in motion an origin story tantamount to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. House and disco have been inextricably ...

Synthesizing the Silk Roads: Uzbek Disco, Tajik Folktronica, Uyghur Rock & Crimean Tatar Jazz from 1980s Soviet Central Asia is out now through Ostinato Records. By Katie Bain The former USSR might ...

Disco and funk, once the heartbeat of the '70s and '80s, are finding new life in today’s music scene. Modern artists are reworking vintage grooves with fresh production, creating tracks that feel both ...

Here's a tour of the uptown funk of the early '80s with songs that listeners have heard alluded to in the Mark Ronson/Bruno Mars hit, some fleetingly, some more obviously. By Sean Ross Part of the ...

Universal Robot Band were the ’70 and ’80s funky disco of the team of Leroy Burgess, Greg Carmichael (of Red Greg Records—consistent sign of weird quality) and monumentally influential squiggly ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Few R&B groups embodied the late ’70s blend of funk, disco, and soul quite like Heatwave. Formed in the mid-1970s, the group became internationally known for their infectious grooves ...