Disco

Get Lit: The Pitchfork 500

In Their Own Time

How deep is your love for the Bee Gees?

Tonight: Gloria Gaynor with the Houston Symphony

Who knew one song would take Gloria Gaynor from Newark to the Jones Hall stage with the Houston Symphony? Yes, she's had other hits ("Never Can Say Goodbye" and "I Am Who I Am"), but it's "I Will Survive" that people most remember. And it's a sure thing that Gaynor's signature song will be the h ... More >>

Disco Daze Downer

Dance-craze era bows out squeaky clean

Gloria Gaynor with the Houston Symphony Orchestra

After 30 years, she’s still surviving

Saturday Night Fever

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston brings back one of those movies people who aren’t film buffs consider classic.

Mamma Mia!

You can dance, you can jive, you can…you get the picture

Death From Above 1979

Disco Keeps On Keepin' On

The Rosebuds

Night of the Furies

Skyline Bar & Grill's

Bannana Split Martini

ABBA-cadabra

See that girl, watch that scene: Mamma Mia! conjures up some disco magic

Steel Strippin'

New setting, new songs, same hook

Everybody Loves ABBA

At least that's what the makers of Mamma Mia! are counting on

Into the Line of Fire

Swede Lasse Hallström steps into America's abortion controversy with The Cider House Rules

Rotation

Swede Lasse Hallström steps into America's abortion controversy with The Cider House Rules

Saturday Night Fever

Web exclusive!

Jacuzzi Movies

Web exclusive!

The Village People

Web exclusive!

Don Kirshner, Late-Night Rock TV Mogul, Dies At 76

Don Kirshner, the music-business impresario responsible for hits by the Monkees and the Archies, as well as introducing scores of pre-MTV American youth to rock via his late-night network program Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, died Monday. Kirshner, a songwriter, producer and publisher, was 76 and ... More >>

Bee Gees' Comeback Is No Jive Talkin'

​The Bee Gees In Our Own Time Eagle Vision, 116 minutes, $14.98. When you think of musical "comebacks," perhaps the greatest one belongs to the Bee Gees. Think about it: In their mid-20s, the Manchester, England-born Brothers Gibb had already had success as children/teens in Australia (whence ... More >>

10 Albums We're Not Supposed To Like But Do

​In everyone's record collection there are junk-food albums, the ones that you feel bad for consuming but coat your ears with happy, because you have been conditioned by everyone else to either hate them or disown them. But when push comes to shove on that media player or stereo, the junk-food ... More >>

Gloria Gaynor, Disco's Ultimate Survivor, Discusses That Song

​You know "I Will Survive." Everybody knows "I Will Survive." Aliens know "I Will Survive." Dogs know "I Will Survive." Dogs who are aliens know "I Will Survive." Gloria Gaynor's 1979 disco anthem, written by the same producers who wrote "Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel" and "Reunited," has l ... More >>

Cake, Buxton Confirmed For First-Ever BestFest

​Saucy rockers Cake and Houston's own alt-country insurgents Buxton are the first two acts confirmed for the inaugural Houston Press Best of Houston® BestFest, or "BestFest," the two-day festival scheduled for September 24 and 25 at the Midtown "superblock" between McGowen, Main, Travis and A ... More >>

Mamma Mia! 10 Amazing Facts About ABBA

Hells yeah, Benny, get after it dawg! ​Yeah, we know. The last few weeks, all of these facts blogs have been on cool, big-balled rock bands like the Doors, Queen, KISS and Led Zeppelin - your basic meat-and-potatos groups you get into from listening to too much classic-rock radio with your par ... More >>

Some Girls: When Rock Met Disco And Disco Met Rock

Rent money is for posers anyway. ​Tonight for one night only at the Houston Marq*E Stadium 23, Rolling Stones fans can finally catch The Rolling Stones: Some Girls Live In Texas, a 1978 concert from the band's Fort Worth stop. The tour came on the heels of the May 1978 release of the band's So ... More >>