Trouble Funk
21 articles
Audio interviews
Interview by Mat Snow, Rock's Backpages audio, 1987
Drop The Bomb! The First Citizens of the Chocolate City talk about everything Go Go: the audiences, the live thing, getting energy from the people and the Washington DC scene.
File format: mp3; file size: 42.9mb, interview length: 44' 39" sound quality: ***
List of articles in the library
Trouble Funk, Minor Threat, the Big Boys: Lansburgh Cultural Center, Washington DC
Live Review by Howard Wuelfing, The Washington Post, 26 September 1983
Punk & Funk ...
Interview by Richard Grabel, New Musical Express, 14 April 1984
Hip-hop? Hell no, go-go! RICHARD GRABEL keeps up with TROUBLE FUNK, grand masters of the D.C. sound. ...
Report and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 9 September 1984
WASHINGTON – Ronald Reagan may preside over official Washington, but Trouble Funk rules the inner city surrounding it. ...
Go-Go: Drop The Bomb On The Love Boat
Report by Richard Grabel, New Musical Express, 22 September 1984
Go-go's got a godfather and a group in every area!! RICHARD GRABEL goes ga-ga in Washington as he uncovers the biggest show in those suburbs. ...
DC Freeze: Staying Alive in the Chocolate City
Report and Interview by David Toop, The Face, April 1985
Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, New York... The urban sound off black America is synonymous with these places. So what of Washington DC, the first US city ...
Go-Go: A Musical Phenomenon Bonding a Community
Special Feature by Richard Harrington, The Washington Post, 19 May 1985
GO-GO MUSIC, the hard-hitting street funk born and bred in Washington's inner city 15 years ago and the heart of a vibrant black subculture for ...
Report by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 27 October 1985
IS WASHINGTON'S explosive Go-Go funk Style destined to follow New York's rap/scratch/hip-hop brigade into the pop mainstream? ...
Trouble Funk: Professors Of Funk
Profile and Interview by Simon Witter, New Musical Express, 2 November 1985
IN WASHINGTON DC, a city that has its fair share of fast-buck entrepreneurs and exploitable kids, Trouble Funk's understanding of the music machine marks them ...
Trouble Funk: Go-Going in Style
Interview by Bill Bentley, L.A. Weekly, 5 December 1985
Getting Small With Trouble Funk ...
Trouble Funk: Saturday Night Live! From Washington, D.C. (Island)
Review by Fred Goodman, Musician, February 1986
STARS OF the D.C. Go-Go scene, Trouble Funk represent a throw-back to an earthier, less predictable disco groove. Saturday Night purports to present the groove ...
Report and Interview by Richard Grabel, Creem, April 1986
THIS IS CRAZY. I'm in Cheriy's Roller Rink, in Northeast Washington, D.C. The place is filled with black teenagers, and even their younger brothers and ...
Trouble Funk, Skin: Paradise Theater, Boston
Live Review by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 23 April 1986
Trouble Funk's go-go too much of the same ...
Report and Interview by Simon Witter, New Musical Express, 7 June 1986
Go Go all gone? Washington DC all fini? Not on your Nelly, argues Simon Witter, Go Go guru of the King’s Roadeo. The deaths of ...
Trouble Funk: Town & Country, London
Live Review by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 2 August 1986
TROUBLESHOOTERS ...
Trouble Funk: Say What! Live In London
Review by Mat Snow, New Musical Express, 1 November 1986
JUST THE other night I achieved a tiny slice of immortality when radio-jock Andy Kershaw played a 1960s Texan garage nugget of which he knows ...
Trouble Funk: Trouble With Your Dancing Feet?
Interview by John McCready, New Musical Express, 27 June 1987
TROUBLE FUNK are going where no go-go has gone before, to radio-land. JOHN McCREADY supports this funky plan. ...
Trouble Funk: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 11 July 1987
SOME CLAIM Angel Dust is a one-way ticket to oblivion that brings out the random psycho in you. Forget it. These bona fide purveyors of ...
Trouble Funk: Free Your Ass And Your Mind Will Follow!
Interview by Mat Snow, Sounds, 18 July 1987
The gospel according to the new Trouble Funk album Trouble Over Here, Trouble Over There is: educate, agitate and organise. MAT SNOW meets the REED ...
Trouble Funk: Trouble Over Here (Island)
Review by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 5 September 1987
GO-GO limps on. Go go has flopped so many times now (the movie was a disaster, the Pepe jeans tie-in a farce) and each time ...
Various Artists: Sugarhill Club Classics (Sequel)
Review by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 1 May 1999
IMAGINE, IF you will, "The Bible" performed in rhyme by young men in baseball hats. Breakdancing. It would have gone something like this. ...
see also Go-Go Allstarz
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