The song’s inclusion on a nationwide show “just shows that go-go music is still alive,” says Bo Sampson, the DC music impresario, music consultant, and an executive producer of the recent documentary ...

Those two tracks and Trouble Funk’s “Don’t Touch That Stereo” top Van Pelt’s list of favorite go-go songs, and he is psyched to help go-go find a larger audience.

Trouble Funk's best songs consist of an irresistible beat and an unforgettable phrase: "Pump Me Up," "Hey Fellas," "Drop the Bomb." The fans did their best to participate, adding "heys" or "whoas ...

You can’t write the history of D.C. go-go music without Trouble Funk, and frontman “Big Tony” Fisher is ready to rock Wolf Trap this Sunday at 8 p.m.

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 ...

On WAIL 105 FM in the mid-1980s, disc jockey Slick Leo Coakley would play go-go songs by artists like Trouble Funk and Redds and the Boys on local airwaves.

But that’s where TufAmerica’s victories end. The judge throws out claims that the Beastie Boys sampled Trouble Funk’s “Drop the Bomb” for three different songs on Paul’s Boutique.

”We all grew up bumpin late 80s hip-hop and didn't realize until later that we were listening to samples of go-go bands like Trouble Funk and Rare Essence,” says drummer Adam Deitch.

Foo Fighters were a surprise addition to a Big Tony and Trouble Funk celebration in Washington, D.C.

TufAmerica has said that it obtained the rights to the Trouble Funk songs in a 1999 administrative rights agreement allowing the company to pursue alleged infringers. But the papers filed by the ...

A musical sequence from the Trouble Funk song "Let's Get Small" used in "Hold It Now Hit It" was also significant enough to survive the dismiss motion. Nathan did dismiss the four remaining copyright ...