A new documentary examines the golden age of funk music, when large, often interracial bands lay down syncopated grooves that packed dance floors. John Blake says that today’s pop music, largely ...

Many early disco songs leaned on the same rhythmic phrasings ... effectively disappeared in the technological era of the 80s, funk managed to embrace the synthetic elements, or at least work ...

Synthesizing the Silk Roads: Uzbek Disco, Tajik Folktronica, Uyghur Rock & Crimean Tatar Jazz from 1980s Soviet Central Asia, offers 15 '80s-era songs from ... loads of funk and Moroder-adjacent ...

Japan found its regional answer to synth pop and disco in the form of city pop. This once mostly unknown genre is currently ...

Thin Lizzy's best-known song and biggest hit is a little bit Springsteen, a little bit Irish swagger and a whole lotta killer ...

Some of the best funk songs of all time sound just as fresh as they did when they came out decades ago, which is beyond rare.

Blondie's "Heart of Glass" is so perfect that someone needed to write an article explaining the minutia of its greatness.