Paradise Garage: The Club Michael Brody Built to Protect a Community
Before Larry Levan became a legend, Michael Brody built Paradise Garage as a members-only refuge for Black, Latino and gay New Yorkers. The story of the man behind the club, the sound it created, and the lease dispute that ended it in 1987.
Studio 54: The Nightclub That Made Too Much Money
Behind Studio 54's velvet rope was a cash business Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager bragged about in public. The IRS raid, the garbage bags of hidden money, and the tax evasion case that shut the club down in under three years.
The DJ and the Disco Era: How Club Culture Was Born
Before Studio 54 and Paradise Garage, Francis Grasso invented beatmatching and the slip-cue at a converted church called Sanctuary, turning the disc jockey from a background job into the art form that built disco's underground.
The Greatest Disco Labels: Casablanca, Salsoul, Philadelphia International, Prelude, TK Disco
How Casablanca, Salsoul, Philadelphia International, Prelude and TK Disco financed, built and lost the disco era: the founders, the distribution deals and business models behind the labels that defined 1970s dance music.
Behind the Booth: The Turntables, Studios and Synths That Built Disco
From Nicky Siano's three-turntable trick to Giorgio Moroder's Moog on Donna Summer's "I Feel Love," the gear, studios and engineers that shaped how disco actually sounded.
What Is Disco? The Rise and Fall of a Genre (1974-1980)
The story of disco from David Mancuso's Loft to Studio 54's collapse: the underground parties, the Philadelphia sound, Tom Moulton's remix, and the DJs, Nicky Siano and Larry Levan among them, who built the culture before the mainstream took it over.
