The beginnings of recorded music lie in the late 1880s when the first device for recording and playing back sound was invented by Thomas Edison. The phonograph was a cylindrical machine that could pl..

The music industry is an ever expanding beast that morphs and transmogrifies into a new creature at every slippery turn. Long gone are the clear cut definitions of jazz, blues, country and western - ..

The music industry is a whirling dervish in the entertainment industry, renowned for fast living and a notorious lifestyle. There are many people that aspire to the big names in music and endeavour t..

The 1977 film 'Saturday Night Fever', in which John Travolta starred as angry Brooklyn youth Tony Manero whose life revolves around dancing, signaled the point where Disco became main-stream. Helped i..

Stereotypes abound, for anyone who has caught the wonderful series Nathan Barley by Chris Morris, the cringeworthy world of the Hoxton Elite sums up DJ culture in one fail swoop. It's not just the DJ..

They say that disco is dead, I say it has been reinvented. Saturday night fever may not be high on the agenda, but all that is disco is back on the club scene and the folks are funking it up in a mul..