But the reunited Trouble Funk did just fine Saturday night at the 9:30 club, playing a dynamic after-midnight set of greatest (local) hits for barely 200 listeners.

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 ...