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 ...

Folk singer Steve Goodman grew up going to Cubs games, and this diehard fan had a lifelong goal—to write a hit song about baseball. After being delayed because of the pandemic, baseball season is ...

WASHINGTON — An awards ceremony honoring those who have worked to preserve the history of Go-Go music will be held Sunday night in Southeast, D.C. The ceremony comes ahead the official grand opening ...

Less than nine months ago, the Go-Go Museum & Cafe in D.C.’s Anacostia neighborhood opened its doors. This video is no longer available. The museum, which features 16 exhibits, including AI holograms, ...

Beauty and the Beat introduced the world to "We Got The Beat" and "Our Lips Are Sealed" — but not before the Los Angeles punk scene heard them first. Those singles, written by guitarists Charlotte ...

Washington, D.C., is now the home of the Go-Go Museum and Café in Anacostia, an institution dedicated to the city’s signature sound and culture. The museum, which opened in February, marks a ...

The Spice Girls and the Pussycat Dolls would be nothing without the Go-Go’s. Formed in Los Angeles in 1978, they were an all-women band that, over just seven years, wrote and performed some of the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Chiu is a freelance music writer based in New York. For the next four years, the Go-Go's – singer Belinda Carlisle, ...

Over the years, a handful of Washington’s pro sports teams have taken their names from various aspects of DC life, such as the Senators, the Capitals, and the Diplomats. Now comes another such moniker ...

Go-Go’s bassist Kathy Valentine recalled how band members allowed themselves to be photographed in their underwear for the cover of Rolling Stone in 1982, even though none of them wanted to do it. The ...