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Happy Juneteenth! There’s a whole lot to celebrate this weekend between Juneteenth and Black Music Month so the timing is pretty perfect to tune in to TV One for their original documentary, THE BEAT ...

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 took shape in the mid-'70s through D.C.'s live band scene, built around extended grooves and real-time crowd interaction. Cultural milestones, including School Daze and the 2020 ...

Dressed in their finest, more than a thousand people gathered Tuesday night to celebrate five decades of Go-Go music at the 2026 Go-Go Awards, honoring the genre’s deep roots in Washington, D.C., and ...

Music legend and guitarist Chuck Brown is widely known to audiences for his musical emblem on the genre of 'Go-Go' music. Now at age 73, with nearly 20 albums under his belt, Brown still performs the ...

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 ...

“Go-go Music is a mix between jazz and R&B with a little reggae that’s heavy on congo and bass with a whole lot of percussion,” says Antwoine McCoy, one of the organizers of Art of Go-Go Culture Fest, ...

The culture and sounds of Washington, D.C.’s go-go music will fill South Florida this weekend as Miami Takeover returns to Miami Beach. Now in its 17th year, the four-day event includes a comedy show ...

Muriel Bowser, the Mayor of Washington D.C., has signed into law a bill that makes go-go music the official music of the district. Bowser signed the bill on February 19 at an event at the city's ...