Go-go music was Washington, D.C.,’s contribution to the world of funk during the late ’70s and early to mid-’80s. It burst on the scene as complete party music, with slower tempos and a premium placed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo of Trouble Funk - Credit: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images (rollingstone.com) Go-go music is the soundtrack of Washington, ...

It wouldn't be a Richmond Folk Festival without go-go music. For the unfamiliar, go-go is that heavily percussive, call-and-response, Latin beat house party meets P. Funk sound started in the ...

Robert Reed, a leader of the Washington go-go band Trouble Funk, which flirted with international fame in the early 1980s, died April 13 of pancreatic cancer at Capital Hospice in Arlington County. He ...

While, from a national perspective, one might describe it as an overlooked vernacular musical style, the Washington D.C. area’s unique, homegrown music called go-go RULES in the DMV (DC, Maryland and ...

Yep, the Foo Fighters played a surprise two-hour set for Big Tony’s Birthday Celebration at 9:30 Club last night. Ben Taylor grew up attending Dischord shows in D.C., and it was that post-punk ...