The Geto Boys’ Show Is Better than Ever (and ‘Grown’ Black Art Matters)
On stage at the Howard Theatre Sunday night, Willie D asked the enthusiastic audience what they thought about the Geto Boys releasing a new album. The crowd yelled its approval and made an even closer...
The Go-Go Book
Kato Hammond’s journey is the pure story of Go-Go culture, untarnished by media sensationalizing or outsiders’ calculations. Here, we see the truth of how a young Black community’s self-motivation and peer mentoring, as well as...
Why does music (or any other art) have to be serious?
DC Area musician Liza Figueroa Kravinsky (Go-Go Symphony composer, Artistic Director) asked this question on Facebook, but she didn’t seem satisfied with the answers she was getting. Why does music (or any other art) have...
Go-Go History. It’s Black. And it Cranks.
Behold what gifts manifest from the minds of men who humble themselves before Creation to document their culture. What will we know of our own history without those of us who speak our own...
99 & Kato’s Top Ten Songs for Jan 2015
A list of the top ten songs played on “99 and Kato” for January 2015 (in no particular order). Thanks to our listeners for your feedback on the songs you’re diggin’. 1. “Call Me” –...
Marion Barry to DC’s Gen X, Go-Go, & Hip Hop
OXON HILL, MD, November 23, 2014 — Sons and daughters of Washington, DC’s Marion Barry era are in mourning today upon hearing the news this morning that the legendary civil rights leader and former mayor...
Godfather of Go-Go Media Kato Hammond among Featured Experts on WETA’s “Washington in the ’80s”
BALTIMORE, MD, November 17, 2014 — Kato Hammond, Godfather of Go-Go Media, was among the area experts featured on WETA’s “Washington in the ’80s,” which premiered at 8pm tonight. The go-go historian, journalist, and archivist...
TMOTTRadio’s “99 & Kato” to Feature Local Hip Hop and Soul, Too
As TMOTTRadio explodes into live programming, listeners will get more than what they’re used to from the online go-go radio pioneers of the Take Me Out to the Go-Go crew. Listeners will also hear local...
Chuck Brown Memorial Park Grand Opening
8-22-14. It was all LOVE. And the people were beautiful.
A Go-Go Story on MTV’s “True Life Unfiltered”
This video is straight POWER. Check out a young Moe Shorter (Junkyard Band, Go-Go Coalition, and everything good and right with the world), a young Mark Te’ago Ward (TMOTTGoGo, Fatal Attraction Band), and the 20-year-old...
Dream Big and “CO-LAB”
In the midst of these elitist, co-opting DC snobs… you need this one right here. Peace, respect, prosperity, continued perfection in your self-expression, and LOVE to Integrity Entertainment for this rap co-lab by Killa Cal,...
Go-Go Love Notes
From Facebook pages of go-go groovers: “Headed to the Howard Theatre for the Honors event! I’m excited to say the least! Thanks Kato Hammond and the TMOTTGOGO Family!” – Donnell Floyd, Sr. (Honoree) “My dancers...
RESPECT DUE: Honoring Go-Go Luminaries at the Howard Theatre
Hear ye, here ye! The Go-Go you have come to know is not merely borne of and propelled by resiliency and resistance. Let it be known that Go-Go lifts Go-Go up in respect, in honor,...
A Rumpshaker’s Route to Regg’go
The first time I heard of Ras Lidj was in 1998 when he was featured in one of the first printed editions of Take Me Out to the Go-Go Magazine. I couldn’t pronounce his name,...- 2 of 3
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