CHICAGO (WLS) -- Almost 37 years ago to the day, Chicago radio icon Steve Dahl blew up disco records at Comiskey Park on July 12, 1979. Disco Demolition Night was an event that blew up itself into the ...

What cultural conditions lead to a rock shock jock blowing up disco records and starting a riot at a ballpark? That is the question that "The War on Disco," the October 30 American Experience ...

LYNWOOD -- As Officer Russ Pearson approached the Pointe East disco, he knew right away his little town had a big problem on its hands. He passed long lines of shiny, new Ford Pintos, Chevy Vegas and ...

There’s a moment in Elegance Bratton’s illuminating documentary Move Ya Body: The Birth of House when Vince Lawrence, a key architect of the music genre, recounts his experience at Disco Demolition ...

Whatever the larger picture of what happened, they were harder to discern at ground level 40 years ago beyond the fact a lot of things went wrong when Dahl and his so-called Insane Coho Lips ...

An anti-disco movement spurs the development of house music. An anti-disco movement believed to be rooted in racism and homophobia drives disco underground. But house music reemerges as a new genre.

Elegance Bratton, whose documentary “Move Ya Body: The Birth of House” had its international premiere this week at Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, speaks to Variety about the relevance of house ...

‘The Inspection’ director also discusses preparations for crime thriller ‘By Any Means,’ starring Mark Wahlberg and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II It was Oscar-winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams who ...