The opening of SportsCenter at midnight Tuesday featured a sound instantly recognizable to fans of DC-area music—the unmistakable pocket beat of Trouble Funk. “That is the legendary sound of go-go ...
WASHINGTON — Today’s Most D.C. Thing comes courtesy of Scott Van Pelt of ESPN and legendary go-go band Trouble Funk. The midnight edition of SportsCenter that Van Pelt has hosted since 2015 has ...
WASHINGTON (ABC7) — What do the unique melodies of Chuck Brown, Trouble Funk, and The Junk Yard Band all have in common? They will soon be the official sounds of the District. Mayor Muriel Bowser is ...
If there's one thing we've learned about Foo Fighters over the years, it's that they're not shy about playing surprise shows. So it should have come as no surprise that when Dave Grohl was booked to ...
Back in my art school days, I once heard an apocryphal anecdote about how Picasso used to tote his freshly completed canvases over to the Louvre to see whether he could hang with the Old Masters.
Go-go — Washington D.C.'s regional twist on funk — reigned in the DMV during the 1980s, and one of the scene's signature acts was Trouble Funk. More than 30 years later, the collective, led by Big ...
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.