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...
You would be hard pressed to find a flavor of classic soul music more elegant than Philly Soul. From top to bottom, this sound was designed to be the most lush...
Little Deuce Coupe shouldn't be as good as it actually is. For starters it was rushed out by Capitol Records a mere three weeks after Surfer Girl. That's a re...
Surfer Girl was the third album for the Beach Boys but it's where the magic really begins for this group. It represents the first time that Brian Wilson was al...
The specific classification of the Beach Boys is something of an ongoing debate in retro-pop circles. They started with surf and hot-rod tunes that slot in nic...
Combining sex and soap opera material served New World Pictures well during their early years. Starting with The Student Nurses, they stumbled onto a formula -...
2012 is shaping up to be a big year for Philly Soul fans. The legendary Philadelphia International Records label is celebrating its 40-year anniversary and has...
AOR officially stands for Album-Oriented Rock but there's a segment of its fanbase that instead spells it out as "Adult-Oriented Rock." Basically, this concept ...
Apple Records was essentially doomed from its inception. Founded by the Beatles with the dream of being a humane answer to the major labels, it never really to...
AOR is a genre that is explored often at Schlockmania but it's usually done in the more arena-rocking context of this style (i.e. stuff along the lines of Styx,...
If you had to pick a "most anthologized" record label for disco material, Salsoul Records would probably take the cake. They have consistently been one of the ...
