After the tree has wilted and the merriment has died down, it’s time to switch gears for some post-Christmas, pre-New Year cheer at Flagstar at Westbury Music Fair. Two back-to-back nights of concerts ...

A story that’s about much more than music, The War On Disco explores how the powerful anti-disco backlash revealed a cultural divide that to some seemed to be driven by racism and homophobia. 9pm ...

Even the most committed of rock music lovers ended up hearing plenty of disco songs – and, in time, many came to appreciate their booty-shaking sense of abandon. Whether you were around for the ...

Pop vocal trio the Bee Gees performing at the Music for UNICEF Concert at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, January, 1979. The 1970s were an eclectic time for music and cultural ...

The War on Disco explores the culture war that erupted over the spectacular rise of disco music. Originating in underground Black and gay clubs, disco had unseated rock as America’s most popular music ...

If you would consider yourself one of many 70s kids who grew up during the golden age of music, these one-hit wonders definitely ring a bell.

The evocative sounds of Donna Summer songs are instantly recognizable. While her music was decidedly disco in tempo, her groundbreaking use of synthesizers set her sound apart and set the stage for a ...

“The War on Disco,” a new PBS documentary, explores the backlash against the genre and the issues of race, gender and sexuality that informed it. By Chris Vognar The plan was simple enough: Gather a ...

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 ...

The decade of the '70s was perhaps rock's most interesting. This era began as a requiem, with final albums by the '60s legends like the Beatles and Simon & Garfunkel, but quickly developed an attitude ...