ESG, the iconic 1970s punk-funk band from the South Bronx, created one of hip-hop's most sampled records. And this Saturday, the band will play a sold-out show in Brooklyn and screen a self ...

The women-led band will be bringing ... If you haven’t caught on yet, ESG is short for Emerald, Sapphire, and Gold. The group was started in the South Bronx by three sisters in the late 1970s ...

and in recent years the band has employed a company to track down the offending record companies to make them pay up. But ESG’s legacy is far more than unlawful samples. Officially forming as ESG ...

Scroggins’ family was from the South Bronx, the home of hip-hop ... After opening for A Certain Ratio, a British band signed to Factory Records, ESG was approached by Factory label head Tony ...

A funk band from the South Bronx, ESG recorded for 99 Records and Factory back in the early 1980s. Their stripped-down but deeply polyrhythmic tracks have always crossed over between white and ...

ESG, the rhythmic no wave band that formed in 1977 in the South Bronx will end its illustrious, influential 38-year career at Hard French’s Pride weekend blowout. It will be the first time the ...

The name of her band is ESG, and they are one of the greatest bands ... The strange story of ESG begins back in the late 1970s in the South Bronx projects, with four sisters – Renee, Valerie ...

A founding member of influential South Bronx funk band ESG is still struggling to get millions of dollars in royalties — including money from a song considered one of the most sampled in modern ...

2xCD compilation documents the career of the South Bronx ... and the band the teenaged sisters formed (with occasional minor assistance from a few neighborhood guys) became ESG.

While plenty of vinyl junkies came out of this weekend's Record Store Day event feeling good about grabbing some exclusive loot, South Bronx post-punk outfit ESG report ... by the band's self ...

There are many twists and turns in the fascinating South Bronx Story of Emerald ... their way to the end of many a rainbow. Here was a band who got to play the opening night of the Hacienda ...

One of the most sampled acts ever, a largely unacknowledged influence on a wide sweep of subsequent rhythmically inclined artists, the band who played the opening night at the Hacienda (with Bernard ...