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 ...

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, ...

Disco music originated in the 1960s at underground venues popular with LGBTQ+, Black, and Latinx Americans. Still, it wasn’t long before the subculture spread from clubs in New York and Philadelphia ...

If you lived the relatively brief era when it ruled the world in the late 1970s, it’s hard to remain unbiased about disco. For some, it was the soundtrack of their coming-of-age years. Others ran as ...

Contrary to popular belief, disco didn't fade from the mainstream when the '70s ended. Exhibit A: The mysterious Dutch group Stars on 45 hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on June 20, 1981 with the ...

A look at highlights of the ranking since it began on Aug. 16, 2003. By Gary Trust “The chart will significantly elevate the profile of dance music at radio.” With the survey dated Aug. 16, 2003, ...