Tag Archives: dance music

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Dan Avery tips us to a brilliant video take on my favorite track of the summer. We thought we loved Scissor Sisters’ “Lets Have a Kiki,” when we first heard it last month. But we didn’t know love until we saw this inspired video remix by Boston party people Craig MacNeil and Blythe Russo, the folks behind Videodrome Discothèque. As …

Perfectly cheesy camp remake. Plus beefcake.

Clip description: A coming of age love story between an enigmatic instigator and an alien-brother-lover resulting in the purest form of magik with a bit of feminism and Las Vegas showmanship thrown in for good measure, all shot in Kansas City. Ssion plays SF’s Pride Festival this Saturday.

A big departure from their usual folk/indie sound.

Shades of BearForceOne.(Via – Towleroad)

(Tipped by JMG reader Jared)

It’s been a really shitty week for pop music. Robin Gibb, one of three brothers who made up the disco group the Bee Gees behind “Saturday Night Fever” and other hits from the 1970s, died on Sunday, according to a statement on his website. He was 62. Gibb “passed away today following his long battle with cancer and intestinal surgery,” …

Thirty-six years ago today, Donna Summer’s Try Me, I Know We Can Make It was in its third and final week atop Record World’s disco chart. (Billboard did not launch its own national Disco Action chart until later in 1976.) Clocking in at an epic eighteen minutes, this three-song medley from the aptly named Love Trilogy album was used as …

Horrible news. Donna Summer, the queen of disco, has died of cancer. TMZ has the early details.

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Have they done a bitch track before?

Kraftwerk’s only American pop chart hit was 1975’s dreamy and iconic Autobahn, which got to #25. They had more success on the dance chart, such as with Telephone Call, which rode the top for two weeks in 1987.

Texting on the dance floor. Don’t do it.

Thirty years ago this week disco/R&B star Linda Clifford enjoyed what would be her final of four Billboard dance chart toppers with Don’t Come Crying To Me. The track was written and produced by Michael Gore (Lesley’s brother) who was hot off winning two 1980 Oscars for writing and producing the Fame soundtrack title song. Gore is also revered among …

You may recall Matt Alber from his stunning 2009 single and gorgeous video, End Of The World. Today he returns with a fat set of remixes worked from his cover of Fleetwood Mac’s classic, Dreams.

Clip description: “What do you get when you combine 70s porn, political sex scandals, and lots of choreography? Multiple Billboard charting indie pop artist, Matt Zarley will answer that along with the bigger question, ‘Is America really ready for a gay President?’.”

From the coming album Magic Hour, due May 13th.