In the recent documentary Basketball County: In the Water, Suitland’s own Kevin Durant talks about how go-go’s distinctive beat shaped the way that he and other basketball stars from Prince George’s ...
The opening of SportsCenter at midnight Tuesday featured a sound instantly recognizable to fans of DC-area music—the unmistakable pocket beat of Trouble Funk. “That is the legendary sound of go-go ...
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.
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 ...
Back in my art school days, I once heard an apocryphal anecdote about how Picasso used to tote his freshly completed canvases over to the Louvre to see whether he could hang with the Old Masters.