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 ...

Stereo MC’s came up through the British club/dance culture of acid house, rave and hip hop, not only with their own group, who gave us such hits as “Connected” and “Step it Up,” but through the label ...

Dance has played a major role in every genre of music. A new dance that's featured in a hip-hop song nowadays can become more popular than the rapper who created it. Before the Chicken Noodle Soup, ...

The famous 1979 Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park in Chicago ended about as well as it began. What started as a rallying cry against disco from an aggrieved rock DJ turned into an evening of ...

During the 1990s, country music reached new heights of popularity. The genre was branching out from its traditionalist roots and bringing in new fans by the thousands. Some of that success can surely ...

Just like every decade before it — and since — the ‘90s sounded completely different from all other musical eras. It was an incredibly raw time in the music industry, with new genres popping up and ...

From its 1980s roots in Black, Latinx, and queer communities in cities like Chicago, Detroit, and New York, electronic dance music exploded in the 1990s, taking techno, rave, jungle, and other ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Fans emerged from pandemic lockdowns primed to hit the floor. Now online platforms are bringing fresh sounds and budding stars to bigger audiences worldwide. Fans emerged from ...

On Saturday night, San Antonio’s Paper Tiger hosted The Throwback, a dance party billed as a “journey through the sights and sounds that shaped the ’90s.” In addition to tunes appropriate to the ...

YouTube is taking advantage of their new venture Vevo by introducing a “Music Discovery Project” dubbed “Disco” for short, where searching for an artist generates a playlist of recommended videos.