Trouble Funk has been one of the forerunners in the growth and development of the Washington D.C. Go-Go scene since 1978. Along with Chuck Brown, Rare Essence, the Junkyard Band and others they have ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...