When go-go music fills a space, it animates everything in striking distance. It isn’t just the passion in the playing, bolstered by funk flavor and a reverberating big band sound; there’s a connective ...
District of Columbia residents are continuing to turn up the funk but now with the support of a new bill that could potentially make Go-go music the official music of D.C. Introduced by D.C. Council ...
Go-go music is Washington, D.C.’s official sound that made a huge impact across genres. Explore its 50-year history, pioneers, and lasting influence on REVOLT.
The unique sounds of Go-Go music took center stage at the Bandshell. The 17th Annual Miami Beach Takeover wrapped a four-day cultural festival at the end of last month that celebrated community, art, ...
There is a sound of Washington, D.C. that is loud, funky, rhythmic, and distinctly theirs. Comprised of live-performing percussions, drums that find their roots in Africa, this sound amplifies one’s ...
WASHINGTON — Protests and Washington D.C. go hand in hand at times due to it being the Nation's Capital, but recent protests over police brutality and social injustice have seen something uniquely D.C ...
Drummer Gina Schock's personal archive show at Haight Street Art Center is like stepping into a lived memory of the band.
#DontMuteDC went viral last year after the owner of a Metro PCS in Shaw was told to turn off the go-go music he has been playing for 24 years. (WTOP/Michelle Basch) Exactly one year after more than 80 ...
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to Sirus XM hosts Charles "Shorty Corleone" Garris and Rico Anderson, who are giving the D.C. region's go-go music a national boost with the new Crank Radio show. There ...
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.