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79.5 Tune In to "Club Level" and Do Double-Duty Vocal Support After a Year Without Tours

S. The New York-based vocalists are the core of disco-soul group 79.5 and they’ve been opening for Durand Jones and the Indications since earlier in the...

Liz Ohanesian

Michelle Rose Makes Her Own Dreams Come True "One Promise At a Time"

Fans of the show are probably already humming (or belting) its singular refrain: "I am...

Lindsey Rhoades

Retro-Futuristic Aesthetics and "Broken Heart Syndrome" Inspire New Album From L'Impératrice

It's a devastating and beautiful animated sci-fi clip directed by French artists...

Liz Ohanesian

PLAYING DETROITBlow Pop Finds Escape in '80s Sounds with "Friendly" Premiere

Before the pandemic, Keaton Butler and Avery Reidy were just friends. They were also living the hodge-podge lifestyles that most working musicians end up scraping together to make ends meet. Butler was bartending, engineering sound for live shows, and performing in three different bands. Reidy was...

Sara Barron

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Even With the Clubs Closed, 2020 Has Been a Stellar Year for Disco

I don't think I've ever listened to as much disco as I have in 2020. That's saying a lot for someone whose regular listening habits include a decent dose of the dance floor singles of the 1970s and the many grooves that have spun off from it in the decades that follow. This year was different, for...

Liz Ohanesian

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Róisín Murphy Releases The Disco We Need Right Now

"It was intended to be a big project at the start, but we got waylaid a...

Liz Ohanesian

White Folks Rioted at Disco Demolition Night - But Didn't Silence Dance Music's Black and LGBTQ Voices

It was 79 degrees outside when local DJ Steve Dahl set fire to a crate of disco records in a publicity stunt so hot, it scorched music history. Disco Demolition Night happened in Chicago on July 12, 1979. But in many ways, the event doesn’t feel too distant. Blowing up records was supposed to boost...

Micco Caporale

The Foxies Weave Punk, Pop and Disco Into the Fabric of Nashville’s Music Scene

The Foxies are one example, with their self-described “goth disco” and “glitter punk” infusion establishing them as a noteworthy player in...

Cillea Houghton

PLAYING DETROITMoon King Adopts Detroit Dance Music on Voice of Lovers

Originally from Toronto, Daniel Benjamin has been hopping from city to city for the past ten years. The longest time he’s stayed in one place were the three years he spent in Hamtramck, Michigan - a multicultural haven tucked within Detroit’s city limits - and that period ended up having a heavy...

Sara Barron

ONLY NOISEAdult Entertainment

In 1997, filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson was racking up a lot of “firsts.” He released his first major feature, Boogie Nights, which garnered his first Oscar nomination. Moreover, Boogie Nights was the first widely celebrated Hollywood film about the Golden Age of pornography. Set in 1970s San...

Madison Bloom

People on Dancefloor, dancing under Big Glitter Ball and balloons, Loft Party, 93 Feet East, Brick Lane, London, 2001

ONLY NOISEOne Ball to Rule Them All

The town I grew up in didn’t have a roller rink. Sure, there was a five-lane bowling alley and a one-screen movie theater, but roller rinks were too big for the bite-sized britches of Arlington, Washington. There are many consequences of a town with no roller rink – namely that it becomes by...

Madison Bloom

ARTIST INTERVIEW + VIDEO REVIEWCocovan "Chic (Someone To Love)"

Part French, part Iranian Cocovan disappeared for about a year—leaving her fans in the art and music world wandering through empty social media sites. Then, like the reincarnations of Madonna's various styles, Cocovan reemerged as the glam-pop empress that she is now. She then released "Mirage Of...

Jamila Aboushaca