If the first Mott The Hoople album was a magical bit of alchemy that was quickly willed into existence then their second album, Mad Shadows, was the hard-won re...
Michael Winner was on a hot streak in the first half of the '70s, cranking out one crackerjack "guy's movie" after another. Several of these films were done wi...
John Luongo's name isn't thrown around as much as the usual disco-remix suspects - Tom Moulton, Walter Gibbons, Larry Levan, etc. - but he's every bit as succes...
In time, Mott The Hoople would become their own mythic beast of rock and roll legend but they began as an experiment. A mixture of high-stakes gambling, madnes...
One of Schlockmania's favorite compilations of recent vintage was Americana: Rock Your Soul, a delightful dig through the crates of lesser known soft-rock and s...
When it is said that disco died at the end of the '70s, what that means is it died as a dominant mass-market trend of the music business. A demand for new dance...
Bad times often make for good art: the pressure of social and political discord can inspire the artist to cathartic extremes, resulting in work that is compelli...
It's been three years since the U.K. deejay collective Horse Meat Disco last released one of their mixes for disco fans. Strut Records just ended the wait by i...
During its mid-‘70s rise to prominence, disco featured a lot of orchestral touches. It made sense at the time as disco derived its initial sense of elegance fr...
The Disco Recharge series has established itself as a reissue program with a serious sweet-tooth for Eurodisco. The Tantra Collection is one of their latest re...
If you appreciate the art of disco and soul remixes, chances are you can't get enough of Tom Moulton's work. After all, he didn't just perfect the 12-inch remi...
If disco music was the perfect vehicle for the producer-as-artist, the ultimate medium of this expression for such producer/artists was the album format. This ...
