Video: 1979 Disco Demolition Night, Local News Coverage

This is part one in Salacious Sound's The History of Electro, chronicling the rise of electro to pop status. Check back on Friday for the next installment. The basic questions of music history, like all history, are: what has happened, and why? What events, what series of developments, led us to this point? In our time, electro baselines and rhythmic drum beats have completely transformed modern pop music. Electro has become the cultural soundtrack - from dubstep to the indie-electro fusion of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and the rise of Lady Gaga in 2009, electro is [...]

Ever wondered where Tronik Youth found those "Disco Sucks" chants on their new 12 Inch? Here you go. Apparently some people REALLY hated Disco back then. This is a collection of News coverage of this weird "campaign" taking place in a baseball stadium. "Blow it up!"

Chicago deejay Steve Dahl just wanted to blow up a few Bee Gees records. It was a riot. Literally. July 12 marked the 30-year anniversary of the infamous Disco Demolition Night , the flaming bookend to the "Disco Sucks!" movement started by Dahl back in the summer of 1979. Dahl would hold anti-disco events where boxes of records were blown to bits-it should be noted that Dahl was fired from Chicago's WDAI in 1978 after the station went to an all-disco format. He finally had his largest audience when he was allowed to blow up [...]

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