Starting his DJ career in 1978 at the age of 13, DJ and producer Jim Hopkins has been an integral part of the Bay Area music scene for almost four decades. Fascinated by the art of editing and ...
On July 12, 1979, a Chicago rock DJ hosted a so-called Disco Demolition during a break at a White Sox double header. It was the rumble heard 'round the pop world, including in North Carolina, where ...
In the great traditions of DJ Uncle Al, Disco Dave, and Milton “Butterball” Smith, DJ Roliboy is a Miami street DJ known for dropping tremendo bass. He was posted at the Graffé Cafe in Wynwood during ...
In the early days of disco, DJ music was fairly simple. All a DJ really did was manipulate the music with turntables – scratching, mixing, cross-cutting and the like. But as time went on, some DJs ...
An archive of music and images pays tribute to San Francisco's vibrant disco scene in the 1970s. The SF Disco Preservation Society started in 2013 when Jim Hopkins, a San Francisco-based sound ...
Disco Demolition Night, which happened 40 years ago today, is the day two genres were marked for death. Disco itself was one of them, of course: Chicago radio DJ Steve Dahl, infuriated that his ...
Disco is a music genre and a subculture born out of a dance floor and pioneered by Black musicians, DJs and producers in the 1970s and early 1980s. The word disco comes from the Italian discoteca, ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Forty years ago, on July 12, 1979, what was supposed to be a wacky promotional stunt by shock-rock DJ Steve Dahl to sell tickets ...
Miramar’s music takes listeners back to an era of carefree dance parties and deep feelings, where music was pure, and life was simpler. It’s been a decade since the emergence of nu-disco, but now ...