The “Godfather of Go-Go,” is the subject of a new resolution that would designate his birthday, Aug. 22, as “Chuck Brown Day.” Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, who introduced the resolution, spoke on it at Browns’ public memorial service yesterday. “Chuck Brown’s funky go-go beat gave hometown D.C....
During the Homegoing services where many people spoke to bid their final farewell to Chuck Brown at the Washington Convention Center (to include Donnie Simpson, Donnie Simpson, DC Mayor Vincent Gray, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, Marion Barry, Big G, Chucky Thompson, Darryl Brooks, Chris Paul...
The following gallery are just a few snap-shots that were taking during the Homegoing Celebration of our own Godfather of Go-Go Chuck Brown. Click on thumbnails for view larger size images. [gallery link="file" columns="4" orderby="title"]...
The D.C. Public Library is working to build a collection honoring "The Godfather of Go-Go", Chuck Brown. The library says it's looking for posters, photographs, ticket stubs, videos or audio recordings of Brown and other go-go musicians. The library is also interested in letters that...
-From the office of Mayor Vincent Gray WHAT/WHO: The Brown Family, Mayor Vincent C. Gray, Events DC and The Howard Theatre have invited fans of the late Go-Go artist Chuck Brown to a series of events memorializing his life and contributions to the District’s...
National artist Charles Jean-Pierre, who also happens to be a teacher at Macfarland Middle School, felt that there needed to be some type of acknowledgement for Chuck Brown’s influence on the community — including his ability to bring the community together. The art teacher says that...
One thing about Chuck Brown is so true: just about each and every person in this culture has their own stories of up close and personal moments that they have shared with him in some form or fashion because that’s exactly the kind of man...
The name Chuck Brown might not mean a whole lot to people outside the Washington DC area, and that would be their lost. In DC, Brown is widely known, even revered, as The Godfather of Go-Go. Born in August of 1936, Charles Lewis Brown, affectionally...
I was moved to dig into the TMOTTGoGo archives crates and pull out an audio session of an interview the we had done with Chuck Brown. I just merely wanted to sit and listen to it. After listening to all the wealth of knowledge and...
Over the past several years there has been a lady by the name of Natalie Hopkinson who has been creepin through the hoods, halls and venues of the Go-Go community, documenting notes, conducting interviews, writing editorials and making friends along the way. I personally have...
TMOTTRadio is always open to helping introduce listeners to material. It is no doubt one of our central missions, and we welcome independent artists, especially from the Go-Go genre, to submit their music or comedy for possible inclusion on TMOTTRadio. We have a deep respect for...
Washington DC's own @ONEWAYBOOBE brings you DONT TEXT ME, which aired on 106 & Park New joint of the Day 4/20/2012 starring @courtneyayana Directed by @alezzyworld 917-609-9708 & @broadwayallday CLICK BELOW TO WATCH VIDEO: ...
Journalist Sarah Godfrey, of the Washington City Paper, recaptures and reminds us of a story regarding a Band and a song that is to this the date, the biggest national release in the history of Go-Go music. The band is EU (Experience Unlimited). The song...
In the Episode of The Tangi Chronicles, Tangi reports her review of the Urban Inspirational Kickball League Celebration Kickoff, which was held on Sunday, April 15, and featured the live performance of Backyard, Junkyard and DaMixx bands. CLICK VIDEO CLIP BELOW TO CHECK OUT TANGI'S REVIEW: ...