WASHINGTON — When Chuck Brown gifted Washington with a style of dance music that didn’t allow his band to break for interruptions, applause or air, he named it go-go because the beat just “goes and ...

As Go-Go marks its 50th anniversary this year, few bands embody the genre's heartbeat quite like Rare Essence-a group whose longevity and live-wire performances have made them both torchbearers and ...

Perhaps no one is more excited about the reunited Go-Go’s upcoming slate of high-profile gigs than Gina Schock. The 67-year-old drummer missed the band’s last big Los Angeles shows — in 2022 at the ...

When DJ Kool — Washington D.C. native, noted party exhorter, and artist behind 1991 pop hit “Let Me Clear My Throat” — was asked about go-go not being played on the street corner of 7th and Florida ...

For many residents of Washington, D.C., the city's soundtrack is a percussion-heavy subgenre of funk known as go-go. Artists like the late Chuck Brown and Trouble Funk got go-go going in the 1970s, ...

For decades, go-go music has been the District’s most powerful homegrown cultural creation. But lately, its unique pulse has served as a flashpoint as much as a soundtrack. After a neighbor in a ...

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 ...

Go-go music has been percolating in local clubs since the 1970s, but D.C.’s homegrown style of syncopated funk has experienced a whirlwind 15 months. In April 2019, a neighbor’s complaints about the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As Go-Go marks its 50th anniversary this year, few bands embody the genre’s heartbeat quite like Rare Essence—a group whose ...