Disco music originated in the 1960s at underground venues popular with LGBTQ+, Black, and Latinx Americans. Still, it wasn’t long before the subculture spread from clubs in New York and Philadelphia ...

Welcome to our list of the 200 best songs of the 1980s. A great deal of today's music looks to the '80s for inspiration, but there are so many different ideas of what "'80s" as a descriptor can mean.

Every generation has a soundtrack that has helped define growing up. For the gen-x crowd, it’s the 1980s. The baby […] ...

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 ...

This might be the most nostalgic of all nostalgic love songs from the 1980s out there. How could I possibly leave off this sultry, saxophone-led tune from one of the greatest talents of that decade?

Like all of Paul McCartney’s worst work, “Silly Love Songs” manages to be stiff and perky at the same time. You can definitely see the former Beatle is an outsider trying to emulate disco music rather ...

These grandiose stories about the iconic disco era are able to take you right back to the 1970s, a time of wild parties, ...

One of the cool things about R&B is hearing how the sound seems to constantly change from the previous decade. The 1980s was no different. It was an era that was moving away from the disco sound of ...

Music-composer duo Salim Merchant (left) and Sulaiman Merchant. Composer duo Salim-Sulaiman have had a fabulous start to 2023. Their Merchant Records seems bullishly buoyant, they have come up with a ...

On Sunday, January 13, a 57-year-old Japanese singer named Anri will play a rare midwestern show for a sold-out crowd at the Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center. In the mid-80s, while Japan was ...

Mithun Chakraborty was cast by B Subhash in Disco Dancer because of his long legs, to match John Travolta’s dance-walk from Saturday Night Fever, the obvious inspiration for the Hindi film. Back in ...