Instead of emphasizing chord changes and melody, funk accentuated heavily syncopated beats and rhythmic and repetitive bass lines.

It feels impossible to sit still while listening to Jungle. If you’re not bouncing already, your body will surely spring to life when the chorus hits. “Ultimately, it’s music that inherently feels ...

FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) - I remember the disco era from the 1970's like it was yesterday. In looking back, very few events have had such an impact on world media, culture, and lifestyles as did disco.

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 ...

Year Zero was 1969, when DJ Francis Grasso began playing records at New York club The Sanctuary, the night spot which filled the space created by the closure of the proto-disco Salvation. Stringing ...

It’s Funk Friday in Mears Park, as ’70s hitmakers the Ohio Players headline the opening night of the fifth annual Lowertown Blues and Funk Festival. The epitome of pre-disco funk music, the Players ...

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, ...

This British disco act was all the rage in Europe in the 1970s with the release of the 1975 disco hit “I’m On Fire”. It was major radio fodder throughout Europe and even peaked at no. 4 on the UK ...

Welcome to Funk It Friday! House Disco Funk Night @ ZOË Cocktail Bar! Come join us for a night filled with House and funky vibes at ZOË Cocktail Bar in San Francisco. Get ready to dance the night away ...

In the early seventies, when Vince Aletti was a young music critic in New York, looking to make a name for himself, the biggest music magazines at the time—Rolling Stone, Creem—were dominated by ...