Rod Temperton, whose contributions as a songwriter, composer and producer in the post-disco era of R&B in the 1980s, and played a crucial role in Michael Jackson’s classic recordings, passed away ...

The foundations of funk were laid down in the mid-1960s, when James Brown began to emphasize the first beat of each measure ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Dynasty may not have received the same mainstream saturation as some of their R&B and funk contemporaries, but for those who know, their discography is pure gold. Emerging from the ...

Rockists, wallflowers and squares of all stripes: You may want to stop reading now, because the adults are talking disco. Oft-derided now and throughout the decades, the disco sound is a melange of ...

Sacred Bones Records, which recently announced plans to reissue four Seventies albums by Mort Garson, has shared the electronic pioneer’s unreleased song “Dragonfly.” “We chose this song to really ...

What do we mean by “dance songs”? Good question. In a sense, any song that ever got any one person moving in any perceptible direction is a dance song. The Beatles made great dance songs — as did ...