Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. With my rep around here as a glowstick-waving techno-bunny, I try to restrict my ...

I Created Disco mistakes superficiality for greatness. There's very little variation between (or even within) tracks: a vapid vocal hook usually repeats over a simple bass groove and drum programming, ...

While working as a session musician in the early 1970s, drummer Earl Young created a unique rhythm that would change the course of popular music. Known today as the “four on the floor,” this simple ...

Sometimes, emerging acts can come to the attention of enterprising record-company A&R men purely by chance. Calvin Harris is a case in point. Some 20 years ago, Mike Pickering was working in A&R with ...

Retro beats are hard to resist and Calvin Harris's debut album I Created Disco is a throwback to the end of the 20th century with retro 80s electronica and 90s electroclash. The twenty-something ...