Justin Myers, who lives in Plano, is a project manager in tech by day and a part-time DJ with a passion for vinyl. This is part of an Arts Access series called “Home is where the art is,” which gives ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Few R&B groups embodied the late ’70s blend of funk, disco, and soul quite like Heatwave. Formed in the mid-1970s, the group became internationally known for their infectious grooves ...

Recent books by Tim Lawrence and Douglas Crimp underline the close relationship between the New York art scene of the 1970s and '80s and that most unjustly maligned of musical movements, disco. In ...

It's arguably the most reviled pop cultural movement of the last fifty years, but for those who lived through its glory days, disco was a damn good time. Musically, it was an offshoot of the funk ...

This British disco act was all the rage in Europe in the 1970s with the release of the 1975 disco hit “I’m On Fire”. It was major radio fodder throughout Europe and even peaked at no. 4 on the UK ...

Year Zero was 1969, when DJ Francis Grasso began playing records at New York club The Sanctuary, the night spot which filled the space created by the closure of the proto-disco Salvation. Stringing ...

Many art galleries in Santa Barbara go by the plan of a main-drag location, discoverable to walk-up traffic as well as regulars. The relatively young Art & Soul, one of the new galleries on (or off) ...

Circa 1977. You’re still in your PJs in front of the TV, working on your third bowl of Fruity Pebbles, in pursuit of the prize buried at the bottom of the box and the sweet pink milk that’s left over.

View of the Funk show (1967) in the Powerhouse Gallery at U.C. Berkeley (image courtesy BAMPFA) SAN FRANCISCO — It was sometime after 8:15 pm on April 28, 1967, in the Physical Sciences Lecture Hall ...

Disco is a music genre and a subculture born out of a dance floor and pioneered by Black musicians, DJs and producers in the 1970s and early 1980s. The word disco comes from the Italian discoteca, ...