Time flies when you’re having fun! It’s a big day for fans of Disco Music today on The AIR.

Five years ago today, Mel Larch’s showcase of Disco Music, MIRRORBALL, made its debut on The AIR (PopCult’s sister internet radio station), and our listeners have been dancing like crazy ever since.

It’s been an amazing journey getting here with what we thought was just a throwaway music special that nobody would listen to. We were wrong, and here we are celebrating with thousands of listeners and a worldwide audience. It was during the late summer of 2019 when Mr. and Mrs. PopCulteer were careening through Eastern Pennsylvania eating chocolate and listening to The Rialto Report podcast about Andrea True, that my lovely wife, Mel, remarked on how much she loved classic Disco music, and we began to talk about doing a Disco show for The AIR. The show didn’t happen until the pandemic shut everything down and gave us more free time, and the first MIRRORBALL debuted as an AIR Music Special on May 1, 2020.

We decided to do another one two weeks later, and the reception was so striking that we just didn’t stop.

To mark the occasion of this anniverary, The AIR will run a 24-hour marathon of Mel’s hand-picked favorite episodes beginning Thursday at 2 PM.  Then, when it concludes, Friday at 2 PM we will serve up a Brand-new episode of the show, and as a special treat, this new episode is comprised entirely of Disco club hits that have never previously been featured on the show.

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When we launched, Mel was concerned that we’d run out of classic Disco-era music, but the truth is, after digging in the club vaults for five years, there is no end to the countless grooves that we can bring you. For a show that was inspired by a podcast about vintage porn and was never intended to be an ongoing series, to be still going strong after five years is quite an achievement.

You will still be able to tune in to The AIR for new episodes of MIRRORBALL, Fridays at 2 PM for the foreseeable future.

So prepare to shake your groove thing, turn the beat around and fly your freak flag high as The AIR brings you 25 hours of Disco, beginning Thursday afternoon.

And then, Friday at 2 PM, tune in the newest edition of MIRRORBALL. Just check out this playlist…

MIRRORBALL 115

Good Life Ltd. “I Got It”
Alice Steet Gang “Bahia (Also Sprach Zarathustra)”
Crosstown Traffic “Party People”
Ike Noble “Dance, Dance, Dance to the Music (Y’all)”
Panach “Sweet Jazz Music”
Universal Robot Band “Disco Boogie Woman”
Stringfield Family “The Sound of Disco Rock”
Sandpebbels of Barbados “Suntan”
Legal Defenses “The Disco Stomp”
Volstarr “Dancin'”

You can hear MIRRORBALL every Friday at 2 PM, with replays Sunday night at 11 PM and throughout the following week Monday at 9 AM and Tuesday at 1 PM plus there’s a mini-marathon that includes the latest episode Saturday nights at 9 PM. Soon that mini-marathon will be moving to a new night, but for now, it’s a Saturday night experience.