Go-go is the official music of D.C., but on streaming services, which so many use to listen to and buy music, go-go artists say they’re being snubbed. Go-go music has deep roots in the D.C. area, and ...

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 ...

It is January, and Rare Essence, one of the longest-running and most respected go-go bands, takes the stage at New York’s Webster Hall. It is a nightclub better known for its hipster audiences, and at ...

The Go-Go Museum & Cafe has officially opened its doors to celebrate all things go-go music. Washington D.C. is making sure it gets the credit the city deserves for birthing go-go music by officially ...

Gentrification, hostility from police, and its own insularity has pushed Chuck Brown's brand of party-starting funk to the margins of the nation's capital. A little more than a month ago, thousands ...

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.

The coronation began with a familiar bongo beat bouncing off the walls of the John A. Wilson Building. There was no vote taken or bill approved, but the crowd that gathered around go-go group Black ...

Go-go music is the soundtrack of Washington, D.C. Despite a four-decade history and a few national hits like “Da Butt,” by Experience Unlimited (E.U.), and “Shake Your Thang,” by Salt-N-Pepa with E.U.

Beat Ya Feet is the street dance empowering a new generation of Black D.C. John “Crazy Legz” Pearson, founder of the Who Got Moves Battle League, is breathing life back into Beat Ya Feet -- the bouncy ...

The music stopped as the mayor made her way across the stage, past bongo drums and keyboards, timbales and amps. But Muriel E. Bowser wasn’t ready to let the beat die just yet. “When I say ‘go-go,’ ” ...