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 ...

Boston funk vets Lettuce will follow last year’s Elevate with a new album, Resonate, on May 8 (pre-order). Like Elevate, they recorded it with Russ Elevado (D’Angelo, The Roots, etc), and lead single ...

Chuck Brown created go-go, but Trouble Funk gets the credit for franchising the music. The D.C. go-go institution, established in 1978, figured out exactly what made the Godfather so great and ...

If there's one thing we've learned about Foo Fighters over the years, it's that they're not shy about playing surprise shows. So it should have come as no surprise that when Dave Grohl was booked to ...

Go-go — Washington D.C.'s regional twist on funk — reigned in the DMV during the 1980s, and one of the scene's signature acts was Trouble Funk. More than 30 years later, the collective, led by Big ...

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 ...

GREENBELT, Md., April 23 (UPI) -- Robert Reed, keyboardist with the Washington-area band Trouble Funk, one of the leading groups of the go-go era, has died at 50. His brother, Taylor, who played ...

“Upon walking into the venue the sense of panic grew, the noise was overwhelming, the whole place was vibrating to the sound of air horns… ‘Were they on already…has it all kicked off… what’s going ...

WASHINGTON — Today’s Most D.C. Thing comes courtesy of Scott Van Pelt of ESPN and legendary go-go band Trouble Funk. The midnight edition of SportsCenter that Van Pelt has hosted since 2015 has ...

You can’t write the history of D.C. go-go music without Trouble Funk. Frontman “Big Tony” Fisher is ready to rock Wolf Trap this Sunday at 8 p.m. “This is our first big gig back,” Fisher told WTOP.

Go-go — Washington D.C.'s regional twist on funk — reigned in the DMV during the 1980s, and one of the scene's signature acts was Trouble Funk. More than 30 years later, the collective, led by Big ...