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Best known for their work with Chic in the late '70s, siblings Debbie, Kim, Joni, and Kathy Sledge -- collectively Sister Sledge -- reached the height of their popularity during the disco era but had been recording since the early '70s and were still active in the late '90s. The group was formed in Philadelphia in 1971, when the sisters' ages ...

Childhood memories came rushing back last weekend with the news that Al Alberts had died at his Florida home at age 87.

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Like seafood? Us too. Too bad there might not be any of it left by 2048, considering how poorly we treat the planet's marine ecosystems.

Share + Nov 20, 2009 8:46 am US/Eastern Shuttle Atlantis Mission CAPE CANAVERAL 1 of 1 NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-129 lifts off of launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center Nov.

Danton Eeprom has finished recording his debut album, which is now set for a January release.

October 19, 2009: Clear Channel has made a move in Atlanta, taking WWVA to Rhythmic as "Groove 105.7." The new site is up and streaming here.

Our favourite British disco steamrollers Horse Meat Disco just had a new Beats in Space session last week.

LaVerne Huston is the longtime volleyball coach at Windsor High School, who spends nearly every minute of her spare time engulfed with something to do with volleyball.

Best known for their work with Chic in the late '70s, siblings Debbie, Kim, Joni, and Kathy Sledge -- collectively Sister Sledge -- reached the height of their popularity during the disco era but had been recording since the early '70s and were still active in the late '90s. The group was formed in Philadelphia in 1971, when the sisters' ages ...

Chris Brown was thrown a lifeline by Jermaine Jackson today when he announced that the disgraced R&B singer would star in an Austrian memorial concert for his famous brother later this month.

If you're Austrian, then it's time for you to get excited. The big Michael Jackson tribute concert takes place in Vienna this month! And it'll be awesome! Just about every musical performer on the face of the Earth drew inspiration from Michael Jackson, which is why all the biggest A-list stars have agreed to take part in the line-up. Well, OK, not ...

Mary J. Blige, Chris Brown and Natalie Cole will be among the top artists performing at a Sept.

The ultimate celebration of 1970s soul and funk anyone? Imaginative funk-based originals and smooth 70s soul covers are the pleasurable products of, arguably, Leicester's top band in this gargantuan genre.

R&B singer Keith Sweat performs live at London's Indig02. Indig02, Millennium Way, Greenwich, London SE10.

Yowsah, yowsah, yowsah... Chic in 1979: Luci Martin, Nile Rodgers, co-founder Bernard Edwards and Alfa Anderson Nile Rodgers of Chic The golden era of disco was already in full swing when the movement's biggest group arrived on the scene.

Who knew the '70s was such a funny decade? Oh sure, it was about disco and sequins, soft rock and sentimentality.

THE Concise Oxford Dictionary has a three-line, one sentence entry for disco music: 'Soul influenced, melodic pop music with a regular bass beat, intended for dancing to'. There's no mention of Nile Rodgers, but there probably should be a ' if he didn't quite give birth to the disco era, then he certainly defined it through hits like Le Freak, ...

NILE Rodgers has plenty of stories to tell. If, for example, you happen to call him at the start of a 45-minute limo ride from his New York home to the airport, he'll gladly fill the whole trip by regaling you with warm and enthusiastic tales of his career beginnings as part of session outfits The Boys and The Big Apple Band in the early 1970s, his ...

NILE Rodgers is the man behind the birth of disco, having formed Chic in 1976 with bassist Bernard Edwards, and echoes of Le Freak, Everybody Dance and Good Times have reverberated through the charts ever since.