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Chuck Brown Dies: King Of D.C. Go-go Music, Influential Sample Source
latimes.com 1 week, 3 days agoWhen the funk music known as "go-go" comes up in casual conversation , and that's not nearly often enough , it's inevitably accompanied by the mention of one man's name: Chuck Brown. The Washington, D.C. funk band leader and composer, whose biggest hit was the 1978 song "Bustin' Loose," died Wednesday at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore at age 75. He was the king of an East Coast subgenre that rose alongside New York funk and hip-hop in the 1970s and '80s. Featuring remarkable Afro-Cuban polyrhythms vi
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Maps & Atlases Brings Its Math Rock To Town
nydailynews.com 1 week, 4 days agoSkittish guitars, askew rhythms and complex melodies make up the music of Maps & Atlases. It’s fast, intricate, almost nerdily precise music, as much an equation as a sound. Small wonder many have herded the band under the genre known as “math-rock” , an ill-defined category that began in the American Midwest in the mid-’80s and later spread to the world.
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