Chuck Brown, who styled a unique mix of funk, soul and Latin party sounds to create go-go music in the nation’s capital, has died after suffering from pneumonia. He was 75. Brown, widely acclaimed as ...

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 ...

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.

ANAC copy 39088020226171 gift of Alcione Amos. "The Beat is the first book to explore the musical, social, and cultural phenomenon of go-go. Rooted in funk and hip-hop, go-go - the only musical form ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON – Chuck Brown, who styled a unique mix of funk, soul and Latin party sounds to create go-go music in the nation's capital, has died after suffering from pneumonia. He was 75. Brown died ...

The man known as the Godfather of Go-Go has died. Chuck Brown pioneered a musical style of percussion-heavy funk that was born in Washington, D.C.... Chuck Brown, 'Go-Go' Funk Pioneer, Dies ROBERT ...

Chuck Brown, who styled a unique mix of funk, soul and Latin party sounds to create go-go music in the U.S. capital, has died after suffering from pneumonia. He was 75. Brown, widely acclaimed as the ...