Have you heard of the obscure subgenre known as mutant disco? If not, you’re not alone in that respect. This genre is also known as avant-funk or punk-funk, and it makes sense why. Mutant Disco is all ...

A drizzly Monday morning. I am listening to the authentic debut album of a seven-piece funk band, where the raw power of ...

One of Ringo Starr’s albums embraces funk and disco music. The album was not a huge hit at the time. The record makes more sense in light of a late 1970s trend in classic rock. Ringo Starr’s albums ...

There’s something very strange about disco in 2026. Just recently the electronica producer Tudor Acid made a concept album built around the idea that turn-of-the-millennium French disco-house and the ...

Just last month, I found myself shoulder to shoulder with strangers in the basement of a New York club, screaming, shouting the lyrics to “Dancing Queen” with a live band and collectively grooving to ...

Borrowing from disco, electro-soul, boogie, and 1980s R&B, vibe commissioner Calvin Harris’ second volume of frictionless summer jams has the staying power of vape smoke at Coachella. Harris’ best ...

It might come as a surprise to non-Brazilians that the trailblazing pop star Anitta first started her career as an MC. In Brazil, this means you’re a baile funk singer. Born in Rio suburbs, the MC ...

It was sometime in the latter part of the 1960s that R&B gave way to soul and, by extension, funk. It wasn't a scene so much at first as it was a grouping of like-minded artists taking their music to ...