Boston funk vets Lettuce will follow last year’s Elevate with a new album, Resonate, on May 8 (pre-order). Like Elevate, they recorded it with Russ Elevado (D’Angelo, The Roots, etc), and lead single ...

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 ...

GREENBELT, Md., April 23 (UPI) -- Robert Reed, keyboardist with the Washington-area band Trouble Funk, one of the leading groups of the go-go era, has died at 50. His brother, Taylor, who played ...

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 ...

After D.C. go-go bands such as Trouble Funk failed to achieve the national success widely predicted for them, some observers concluded that the problem was the audience: Go-go just couldn't work ...

In the recent documentary Basketball County: In the Water, Suitland’s own Kevin Durant talks about how go-go’s distinctive beat shaped the way that he and other basketball stars from Prince George’s ...

On May 3, the day before Beastie Boys member Adam “MCA” Yauch succumbed to cancer, the rap group was slapped with a copyright-infringement lawsuit from Tuf America, a publishing company representing ...

Last week's news that Trouble Funk were to sue the Beastie Boys over unlicensed samples might have had a fair few Beasties fans thinking: who? Which would be a reasonable enough response, for a couple ...

“Upon walking into the venue the sense of panic grew, the noise was overwhelming, the whole place was vibrating to the sound of air horns… ‘Were they on already…has it all kicked off… what’s going ...