Chicago house pioneer Vince Lawrence recalls witnessing Disco Demolition Night as a teenager, and later recognizing the racist undertones of the infamous incident, in a new clip from the fascinating ...

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 ...

One day in 1979, Chicago radio DJ Steve Dahl encouraged thousands of fans to bring disco records to a White Sox game and destroy them. “He felt like it was just ‘that Black stuff,’” Vince Lawrence ...

The history of house music begins with the death of disco. As is the case with every trend, the synth-y beats of disco showed signs of malaise as the '70s waned, but Chicago shock jock Steve Dahl ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. House music typically thumps at 120-130 beats per minute, in 4/4 time. That’s an awfully clinical description of the sound that ...

‘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 ...

House music, the underground sound that rose from the ashes of disco in the late 1970s, receives a loving tribute in Move Ya Body, a documentary that celebrates its origins while lamenting the forces ...

“Move Ya Body: The Birth of House” tells the story of how house music was born in the late 1970s. A history reconstructed by director Elegance Bratton (“The Inspection”) through the memories of the ...

New York City has hip-hop, and Chicago has house music. Although each genre became a global phenomenon, the latter still generates far less mainstream coverage. To this day, a cloud of mystery still ...

House music typically thumps at 120-130 beats per minute, in 4/4 time. That's an awfully clinical description of the sound ...

House music typically thumps at 120-130 beats per minute, in 4/4 time. That’s an awfully clinical description of the sound that shakes the floor and the walls at dance clubs around the world. What’s ...