Natalie Hopkinson is a Washington, D.C.-based author whose current projects deal with the arts, gender and public life. She is the author of Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City.

In 1986, Island Records released a film titled “Good to Go.” The label hoped the movie would elevate go-go, the percussive party music native to Washington, to a national platform much like “The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Go-go music took shape in the mid-‘70s through D.C.’s live band scene, built around extended grooves and real-time crowd ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) This kind of talk seems to just energize Nico. He’s the ...

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 ...

For the longest time, the Go-Go Live concert at the old Capital Centre was considered go-go culture’s proudest moment. That may have changed with last week’s Moechella, the latest musical rally ...

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 ...

Throughout February, WTOP is celebrating Black History Month. Join us on air and online as we bring you the stories, people and places that make up our diverse community. Four years after Go-Go’s ...