dis·co
ˈdi-(ˌ)skō 
plural discos
1
: a nightclub for dancing to live and recorded music
2
: popular dance music characterized by hypnotic rhythm, repetitive lyrics, and electronically produced sounds
see disc-
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Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 16 May 2024
Daytime and nighttime activities like beach volleyball, bocce ball, disco nights, live music, and karaoke abound.
—Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 16 May 2024
And are those giant disco balls in the dining room?
—Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 May 2024
Enriching pop-music expression, PSB’s Nonetheless avoids infatuation with youth and politics to observe past and present experience (the living and the dead) side by side in the disco genre.
—Armond White, National Review, 10 May 2024
In the pantheon of beloved disco labels, the M.F.S.B./PIR catalog is only rivaled by the string of hits released on Salsoul Records between 1978 and 1983.
—John Morrison, SPIN, 9 May 2024
The Etsy team reports that couples are going all out on wedding after-parties with neon signs, late night snacks, disco decor, and more.
—Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 8 May 2024
Variety met the filmmakers under the virtual disco ball in advance of Hot Docs to ask them about working with Rodgers, archive finds, and what everyone should know about disco.
—Jennie Punter, Variety, 3 May 2024
This brunch party will have a local DJ spinning vinyl records from a variety of music genres including disco, funk, soul and house music.
—The San Diego Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2024
Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Mar. 2024
Marlena Shaw, who cultivated a sultry stage presence and husky voice from the final echoes of the big-band era, to the go-go Playboy Clubs of the 1960s, to the rise of funk, to disco and finally to the modern cabaret circuit, died on Jan. 19.
—Alex Traub, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2024
In his work at Norby Walters Associates, Walters continued booking talented musicians across a variety of genres from soul to disco to R&B such as Marvin Gaye, Patti LaBelle and, for a short time, Michael Jackson.
—Valerie Wu, Variety, 21 Dec. 2023
Leftover Halloween decorations hung overhead as people rocked and swayed on the Gossip Grill dance floor to a range of music genres, from Afrobeats to disco.
—Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
Here, the soundtrack is just as important—and eclectic—as the drinks, switching seamlessly from funk to disco to jazz.
—Sophie Prideaux, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Nov. 2023
Early on, Gerwig used the Bee Gees and ’70s discos as a reference point for Ronson.
—Maria Sherman, Fortune, 18 July 2023
For those who want to disco the night away, a Pride edition of Silent Disco starts at 8 p.m. in Klyde Warren Park.
—Norma Cavazos, Dallas News, 1 June 2023
The duo recorded seven stylistically varied studio albums that drifted from trip-hop to glam rock to disco to indie to folk, sometimes crossing back, with a common thread: the airy-yet-hearty multi-octave voice of its namesake.
—Rich Juzwiak, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2023
Noun
The home’s ground floor holds two large reception rooms, one of which has a disco ball cheekily hung from the coffered ceiling and another that is furnished as a formal dining room.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 16 May 2024
Daytime and nighttime activities like beach volleyball, bocce ball, disco nights, live music, and karaoke abound.
—Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 16 May 2024
And are those giant disco balls in the dining room?
—Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 May 2024
Enriching pop-music expression, PSB’s Nonetheless avoids infatuation with youth and politics to observe past and present experience (the living and the dead) side by side in the disco genre.
—Armond White, National Review, 10 May 2024
In the pantheon of beloved disco labels, the M.F.S.B./PIR catalog is only rivaled by the string of hits released on Salsoul Records between 1978 and 1983.
—John Morrison, SPIN, 9 May 2024
The Etsy team reports that couples are going all out on wedding after-parties with neon signs, late night snacks, disco decor, and more.
—Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 8 May 2024
Variety met the filmmakers under the virtual disco ball in advance of Hot Docs to ask them about working with Rodgers, archive finds, and what everyone should know about disco.
—Jennie Punter, Variety, 3 May 2024
This brunch party will have a local DJ spinning vinyl records from a variety of music genres including disco, funk, soul and house music.
—The San Diego Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2024
Verb
In the Village People disco musical Can’t Stop the Music (1980), directed by Nancy Walker of Rhoda fame, Rush played the mother of Bruce Jenner’s character.
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Mar. 2024
Marlena Shaw, who cultivated a sultry stage presence and husky voice from the final echoes of the big-band era, to the go-go Playboy Clubs of the 1960s, to the rise of funk, to disco and finally to the modern cabaret circuit, died on Jan. 19.
—Alex Traub, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2024
In his work at Norby Walters Associates, Walters continued booking talented musicians across a variety of genres from soul to disco to R&B such as Marvin Gaye, Patti LaBelle and, for a short time, Michael Jackson.
—Valerie Wu, Variety, 21 Dec. 2023
Leftover Halloween decorations hung overhead as people rocked and swayed on the Gossip Grill dance floor to a range of music genres, from Afrobeats to disco.
—Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
Here, the soundtrack is just as important—and eclectic—as the drinks, switching seamlessly from funk to disco to jazz.
—Sophie Prideaux, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Nov. 2023
Early on, Gerwig used the Bee Gees and ’70s discos as a reference point for Ronson.
—Maria Sherman, Fortune, 18 July 2023
For those who want to disco the night away, a Pride edition of Silent Disco starts at 8 p.m. in Klyde Warren Park.
—Norma Cavazos, Dallas News, 1 June 2023
The duo recorded seven stylistically varied studio albums that drifted from trip-hop to glam rock to disco to indie to folk, sometimes crossing back, with a common thread: the airy-yet-hearty multi-octave voice of its namesake.
—Rich Juzwiak, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2023
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