(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 ...

Over the past few years for Black History Month, World Cafe has dug into different genres and their importance in the Black music canon over the decades. "What I'm talking about when I say dance music ...

When Calvin Harris released the first Funk Wav Bounces in 2017, that album felt groundbreaking. By attaching ostensibly hardcore rappers such as Schoolboy Q and Young Thug to glittering, post-disco ...

It's arguably the most reviled pop cultural movement of the last fifty years, but for those who lived through its glory days, disco was a damn good time. Musically, it was an offshoot of the funk ...

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 ...

The new album -Cut & Rewind- is a collaboration from powerhouse vocal trio Say She She and funk and soul band Orgone.

The ’70s was a time to be alive in the United States and parts of Europe. When disco fever hit the music scene, as a result of dance music emerging from the US nightlife, the bump, and the hustle ...

She had heard the Donna Summer songs, she had watched John Travolta ooze across a dance floor in “Saturday Night Fever” and she had amassed an impressive collection of 12-inch dance mixes. But in the ...

Vaughan Mason, the musician and producer whose influential disco-funk singles — most notably his 1980 roller skating anthem “Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll” — have been sampled by dozens of artists ranging ...