Haim: Photo courtesy Bella Howard. Giorgio Moroder: Photo courtesy Casablanca Records. Illustration by Slate. Haim is having a good week, with their debut album Days Are Gone placing high on a number ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook I can’t think of a better way to describe Italo Disco than Ishkur in his infamous book, “Guide to ...

The disco sound swept the world throughout the 1970s, but nowhere did it find quite so warm a reception as it did in Italy. Of course, in Giorgio Moroder, the country featured one of the disco sound's ...

Alessandro Melazzini approaches the subject of 80s pop dance music from a particular perspective. Born in Sondrio, Lombardy, the Italian documentarian, who has filmed both nuns and porn stars, is ...

An exhibition exploring the history of Italo disco is opening this week at Frankfurt’s Museum of Modern Electronic Music [MOMEM]. Titled, ITALO DISCO – Never Stop Dancing, the exhibition opens on ...

In the second installment of his newly revitalized Rewind column, Finn Johannsen speaks with a true veteran, Flemming Dalum. The Denmark native discovered a passion for Italo disco in the early ’80s, ...

Get ready for the Oscars with a deep dive into the duo behind the track, La Bionda, and others. By Lindsay Zoladz The Oscars are this Sunday, and my personal pick for best picture is Brady Corbet’s ...

If you fancy yourself an electronic music scholar you have to know Italo disco. At first listen, some might sound really cheesy, but it's an integral block in the edifice of current electronic dance ...

Conceived in the '70s, the futuristic electronic sound if italo disco has enjoyed something of a renaissance recently, with its influence being heard on work by artists such as Sally Shapiro, Glass ...