Contrary to the opinion of naysayers, disco didn't die at the end of the '70s. It just returned to its birthplace in the clubs, mutating and diversifying into ...
Disco was the true producer's medium of the '70s and early '80s. As such, it tended to draw in musical renaissance men whose skills allowed them to fill severa...
If a band plays its cards right, it can build an impressive career off of cult popularity. Consider the case of Barclay James Harvest. Never a critical darlin...
If you get into Beach Boys fandom, you'll read and hear a lot about "the California Myth."Â This phrase comes from The Beach Boys And The California Myth, the g...
As soon as Kenny Gamble and Thom Huff started mining soul-music gold in Philadelphia, plenty of singers trekked over to Sigma Sound Studios to see if they could...
The test of how good a recording artist is lies in the quality of their less commercially successful work. When the light of success isn't shining on a musicia...
Harmless Records' new Mixology series is only on its second volume but it has already taken a drastic change in approach. The first volume of Mixology (reviewe...
When people talk about concept albums, the genre being discussed is almost always rock, sometimes with the occasional mention of soul artists like Marvin Gaye t...
It's not difficult to find vintage disco material on CD but it rarely gets the respectful archival editions that rock or soul albums get. Fans usually have to ...
Disco drew fans from all walks of society but if there is a single group that qualifies as the keeper of the flame for this genre, it's definitely disco's gay a...
The disco genre is a collector's delight because it is impossible to overstate just how much of it was produced during the genre's heyday. Plenty of these albu...
Disco took a pretty intense shellacking in the U.S. at the end of the 1970's, thanks to the "disco sucks" movement - but it never experienced a similar crisis m...
