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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...