The singer, songwriter, and onetime frontman of the Impressions went on to serve as a commissioner in Cook County, Illinois ...

Every week for Black History Month, World Cafe correspondent John Morrison is highlighting a different trailblazer and ...

The second was Rapture, a song that merges disco, hip-hop, funk and new wave Rapture would go on to become the first No. 1 ...

Did you know that France is the second largest market for rap albums in the world? In fact, some French artists sell more units than their American ...

I wanted to curate a party, a very cool, very groovy 1970s Italian disco party, as if we were all in a scene from one of ...

Eli Roth has announced that he’ll be releasing a compilation that pays tribute to Italian cinema and disco, entitled ‘Red ...

Eli Roth partners with Italian soundtrack label CAM Sugar for ‘Red Light Disco,’ a vinyl compilation of sexploitation cinema ...

Music has evolved throughout the decades, but even with the current musical climate, no one can deny the impact of the 1970s.

The book that inspired today’s playlist, the cultural critic Lucy Sante’s “I Heard Her Call My Name,” isn’t about music per se. As its subtitle attests, it is mostly “a memoir of transition,” centered ...

The Seacoast Rep’s season opener of “Sister Act” is a joyous explosion of glitter, gospel, and loads of fun with a convent full of nuns.

These disco one-hit wonders have a lot of staying power, decades after the 1970s (and the age of disco) came to an end.