How freestyle—a frenetic, synthetic Latin-flavored ’80s dance genre—bridged the disco and hip-hop eras while racking up scores of hits. If you can't access your feeds, please contact customer support.

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 ...

Join Aretha Franklin and belt out “R E S P E C T” while soulful beats (aka saxophones, drums and bass guitars) play in the background. It’s one of the greatest songs of all time for a reason. We can ...

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 ...

Get it here: Suffice it to say it begins with Soul II Soul’s “Keep on Movin’,” ends with Massive Attack’s “Unfinished Symphony,” and features plenty of Seal, PM Dawn, Snap!, and Janet Jackson in ...

Certain country songs recall a shinier time in life and in music. Certain guitar licks from hits by Thomas Rhett and Keith Urban are smoother than pressed polyester. The foot-shuffling beats driving ...

Alternative pop is often marketed as an ’80s revival — somehow, the perception of historical homage is supposed to make pop music more respectable. Although most of the artists’ musical devices trace ...

If you lived the relatively brief era when it ruled the world in the late 1970s, it’s hard to remain unbiased about disco. For some, it was the soundtrack of their coming-of-age years. Others ran as ...

Here are 21 of the songs we’ll take with us from this year into 2021 — where hopefully we can dance together again. Photo-Illustration: Vulture, Getty Images and YouTube This was the sort of year that ...

The 1970s was the decade when it comes to disco music. People flocked to clubs with their dancing shoes on wanting to hear music that gave them the combination of joy and thrill. It was all the rage ...