In honor of Black History Month, "GMA" celebrates Washington, D.C.'s homegrown go-go music, long known as the city's soundtrack.

D.C. Public Library adds the DC Decades collection to its Go‑Go Archive, preserving and celebrating the city’s unique musical and cultural history.

The unique sounds of Go-Go music took center stage at the Bandshell. The 17th Annual Miami Beach Takeover wrapped a four-day cultural festival at the end of last month that celebrated community, art, ...

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 ...

There is a sound of Washington, D.C. that is loud, funky, rhythmic, and distinctly theirs. Comprised of live-performing percussions, drums that find their roots in Africa, this sound amplifies one’s ...

The D.C. Go-Go Museum is marking one year since opening its doors in Anacostia, celebrating the city’s homegrown sound and the young people helping keep it alive.

District of Columbia residents are continuing to turn up the funk but now with the support of a new bill that could potentially make Go-go music the official music of D.C. Introduced by D.C. Council ...

AT SIX. WELL, THE FINAL RUN OF JAZZY SUMMER NIGHTS CONTINUES THIS WEEK WITH THE GO GO MUSIC ALL STARS AND JOINING US LIVE THIS MORNING WITH THE PREVIEW. WE HAVE RONALD MOTOWN. MOTOWN. WE HAVE CAMEOS.

For many residents of Washington, D.C., the city's soundtrack is a percussion-heavy subgenre of funk known as go-go. Artists like the late Chuck Brown and Trouble Funk got go-go going in the 1970s, ...

When go-go music fills a space, it animates everything in striking distance. It isn’t just the passion in the playing, bolstered by funk flavor and a reverberating big band sound; there’s a connective ...

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.

The Go-Go Museum and Café will celebrate 50 years of go-go music at the 2026 Go-Go Awards, on Tuesday, Jan. 6. The awards will be hosted at the Lincoln Theatre in D.C.’s Shaw neighborhood, ...