Disco is having another moment. Two powerful documentary films, a definitive coffee table book, and a $14 million high-tech Las Vegas experience have arrived in recent months to celebrate the music ...
As you might expect for a documentary titled Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution, this vibrant three-part account of the rise and fall of the disco era has a great beat and you can dance to it. Dancing ...
Oct. 28—Rushmore DeNooyer always wanted to work with the PBS series American Experience. The producer was pulled into the mix when American Experience's Cameo George reached out and told him she was ...
A 1976 ad for Studio One, the West Hollywood nightclub. Studio One archives EXCLUSIVE: Everyone knows Studio 54, the iconic New York nightclub that flourished in the 1970s. But the West Coast claimed ...
Singer-songwriter-producer Nona Hendryx was already a successful performer as a member of Labelle and a New York resident when the scene began to form. Labelle’s funky, raunchy 1975 hit song “Lady ...
James Crump, an art historian and filmmaker whose credits include 2007’s “Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe,” has turned his attention to the hothouse world of New ...
The 1970s was the decade when it comes to disco music. People flocked to clubs with their dancing shoes on wanting to hear music that gave them the combination of joy and thrill. It was all the rage ...
A story that’s about much more than music, The War On Disco explores how the powerful anti-disco backlash revealed a cultural divide that to some seemed to be driven by racism and homophobia. 9pm ...
This absolute jam was released in 1973 by the Philadelphia vocal group First Choice. “Armed And Extremely Dangerous” brought the outfit to public recognition during the disco era when the song broke ...