Drummer Gina Schock's personal archive show at Haight Street Art Center is like stepping into a lived memory of the band.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CAMP SPRINGS, Md. ‒ It was nearly 2 a.m. Saturday. The go-go band was about to start its next set when Tony Lee got the nod – it ...

Go-Go Awareness Week kicked off Nov. 17 with a press conference held at the Go-Go Museum & Café in Southeast Washington, D.C. Sign up for our Daily eBlast to get coverage on Black communities from the ...

Rare Essence, Washington, D.C.’s iconic go-go band, has performed to the delight of its ever-growing fanbase for more than four decades. Now considered a D.C. institution, the band has secured a ...

“Go-go Music is a mix between jazz and R&B with a little reggae that’s heavy on congo and bass with a whole lot of percussion,” says Antwoine McCoy, one of the organizers of Art of Go-Go Culture Fest, ...

For Be’la Dona, the end of the year wouldn’t feel complete without a return to The Birchmere. On Dec. 28, the pioneering all-female go-go band is once again set to turn the storied Alexandria venue ...

The 2026 Go-Go Awards will close with performances by Backyard Band’s Anwan “Big G” Glover (pictured) and Leroy “Weensey” Brandon as well as Junkyard Band’s Steven “Buggs” Herrion, all backed by the ...

Of the many perks that draw so many young musicians into go-go bands in this area, one looms large in this male-dominated industry: the women. Throngs of ladies fawn over go-go bands. The phenomenon ...

AT SIX. WELL, THE FINAL RUN OF JAZZY SUMMER NIGHTS CONTINUES THIS WEEK WITH THE GO GO MUSIC ALL STARS AND JOINING US LIVE THIS MORNING WITH THE PREVIEW. WE HAVE RONALD MOTOWN. MOTOWN. WE HAVE CAMEOS.

We Got the Bubbly: An outtake from the photo shoot for Beauty & the Beat, whose back cover’s bubble bath pictures were inspired “by an old Shelley Winters publicity shot.” Credit: Photo by George ...

That’s what my old neighbor AJ — a.k.a. Jett Black, a longtime D.C. rapper who has been part of the scene for more than two decades — said when I asked him to help me sample what’s been going on ...

CAMP SPRINGS, Md. ‒ It was nearly 2 a.m. Saturday. The go-go band was about to start its next set when Tony Lee got the nod – it was time to go on. Lee worked his way through the crowd waiting for ...