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Craig shares insights on his pioneering career, the evolution of Detroit's electronic dance music, and his new documentary "Desire: The Carl Craig Story" premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Paul Dale Roberts embarked on a mission to break the Guinness World Record for the longest disco dance marathon.
The radio, one of the niftiest inventions of the 20th century, has been informing, entertaining, outraging and boring millions of people for more than 100 years. It was called “magic in a box” by Col Robert R. McCormick, the owner of the Chicago Tribune who gave the world the venerable WGN-AM 720. I have to wonder what McCormick might have called radio had he lived long enough to hear the ...
Within disco's rich history are lessons, not only for the rest of the music industry, but also for human connection.
Premieres Monday, Oct. 30, 2023 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App. Explore the culture war that erupted over the rise of disco music. Originating in underground Black and gay clubs, disco unseated rock as America’s most popular music by the late 1970s. But many diehard rock fans viewed disco as shallow and superficial. The hostility came to a head on July 12, 1979, when a riot broke out at “Disco Demolition Night” at a baseball game in Chicago.