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Disco

May 2026

  • Kathy Sledge of Sister Sledge

    Film & Music reader interview
    ‘The biggest myth? That I left Sister Sledge’: Kathy Sledge on sibling rivalry, Chic and disco’s political power

  • Kathy Sledge in a leather jacket and white vest top, stood against a white wall

    Film & Music reader interview
    Post your questions for Sister Sledge’s Kathy Sledge

April 2026

  • Yes sir, I can boogie … Jessie Ware.

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Jessie Ware: Superbloom review – Table Manners host dishes up more disco – but where are the bangers?

    The podcaster’s third sequin-festooned album in a row is her most retro, with its slightly cringe moments balanced by unerring quality control and opulent arrangements

March 2026

  • Brothers Johnson perform on stage in New York in 1976 (Photo by Richard E Aaron/Redferns)

    Under the mirrorball: the kings and queens of disco – in pictures

    Disco brought together music, fashion and nightlife in a cultural phenomenon that conquered the world. In A Night at the Disco by Alice Harris and Christian John Wikane, the stars of the scene are documented in photos spanning the 1970s
    Gallery12

February 2026

  • SOH Grace JonesGrace Jones performs at the Sydney Opera House forecourt on 28 February 2026

    Grace Jones review – chaos, nudity and endless costume changes: the disco legend’s show has it all

    The 77-year-old is one of our greatest living performers, doing sit-ups, hula-hooping and even flashing the audience – but her rich voice is the true revelation

January 2026

  • Diana Ross on the set of The Muppet Show in 1980.

    Ranked
    Songs about new beginnings – ranked!

    From CMAT and the Carpenters’ fresh starts to the Beatles’ Here Comes the Sun and Nina Simone’s Feeling Good, starting again is a rich theme in pop. Here are some of the best examples

December 2025

  • Lido Pimienta, press, publicity photo

    Best music of 2025
    The 10 best global albums of 2025

    Lebanese singer-songwriter Yasmine Hamdan returns with mournful minimalism, Mohinder Kaur Bhamra’s 1982 album of Punjabi disco makes a comeback and Venezuelan-Guatemalan duo Titanic serve up ecstatic tracks

October 2025

  • Ross Harmon, top, with Annabelle Terry, Adam Taylor and Paige Fenlon in Get Down Tonight.

    Get Down Tonight review – KC and the Sunshine Band’s story dimmed in drearily meta musical

    Featuring 20 of the band’s disco-funk songs, this jukebox musical has sparkle but comes with an infuriating concept and little depth of characterisation

September 2025

  • Sabrina Cunningham, Piya Malik and Nya Gazelle Brown.

    ‘Just being who we are is political’: disco trio Say She She on impressing Nile Rodgers and making bold protest songs

    Their origin story may have been quintessentially New York, but the disco-funk band are now spread across the US – and they’re more determined than ever to be heard

August 2025

  • Australian band Parcels. 2025

    Guardian Australia's headline act
    Parcels on working with Daft Punk and their euphoric electropop: ‘The ultimate goal is to cry on the dancefloor’

    After forming at high school in Byron Bay, the Australian band’s nostalgic, disco-funk sound has been streamed more than 1bn times

June 2025

  • Glastonbury Festival 2025 - Day Five<br>GLASTONBURY, ENGLAND - JUNE 29: Nile Rodgers and Chic perform during day five of Glastonbury festival 2025 at Worthy Farm, Pilton on June 29, 2025 in Glastonbury, England. Established by Michael Eavis in 1970, Glastonbury has grown into the UK's largest music festival, drawing over 200,000 fans to enjoy performances across more than 100 stages. In 2026, the festival will take a fallow year, a planned pause to allow the Worthy Farm site time to rest and recover. (Photo by Shane Anthony Sinclair/Getty Images)

    Nile Rodgers and Chic at Glastonbury review – pop’s most reliable band bring the party to the Pyramid

    While you might quibble that Chic’s set has become more reliable than revolutionary, you can’t argue with the effects of the greatest pop music ever made on the crowd

May 2025

  • Scissor Sisters.

    Scissor Sisters review – effervescent maximalism from 00s glam-pop freaksters

    Decked out in bedazzled denim and surrounded by inflatable body parts, the US band sound as thrillingly absurd on this reunion tour as when they brightened up the charts the first time around

April 2025

  • Maxomatic Robyn

    ‘It burrows into your bones’: how Dancing on My Own became pop’s ultimate sad banger

    Since its 2010 release, Robyn’s downbeat hit has influenced Charli xcx and Taylor Swift, soundtracked films and TV shows, and been yelled in unison at club nights. What’s the secret of its longevity?

March 2025

  • Nile Rodgers on stage in Glasgow in 2018.

    Ranked
    Everybody dance: Nile Rodgers’ 20 greatest tracks – ranked!

  • Various - 1976<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by David Dagley/Shutterstock (60980b) Steve Jones, Alan Jones, Chrissie Hynde, Jordan and Vivienne Westwood at Westwood's shop 'Sex', Kings Road, London - 1976 Various - 1976

    ‘Johnny Rotten tore my record off the deck’: the superfan at the centre of disco and punk

  • James Hamilton, holding a clicker, which he used with a stopwatch to measure the BPM (beats per minute) of a record.

    ‘Everyone knew who he was’: James Hamilton, the ‘eccentric aristo’ who catalysed British club culture

  • King Charles seated at a desk

    King Charles’s Apple Music playlist: are they really his favourite songs?

  • double quotation markEverybody Loves the Sunshine is just one point of perfection in Roy Ayers’ astonishing catalogue

    Alexis Petridis

  • Tokimonsta: Eternal Reverie review – a life-affirming journey through dance music

February 2025

  • Gwen McCrae

    double quotation markThe late Gwen McCrae brought emotion to dance music like no one else

    Garth Cartwright
    Spanning deep soul, disco and beyond, McCrae – who has died aged 81 – didn’t get the recognition she deserved for a discography charged with pain and wonder
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