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 band announced the Hamtramck appearance on its Facebook page, with a simple flier that says “ESG Live, The Hamtramck Labor Day Fest, Monday, September 5, 2022.” ...

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 ...

When Renee Scroggins formed a band called ESG with her three younger sisters in 1978, the notion of creating a ground-breaking mix of punk, funk and soul that would be sampled countless times by hi… ...

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 ...

Straight out of South Bronx, ESG began in 1978 with four Scroggins sisters and ... It's kind of crazy that a band of ESG's stature is reduced to driving themselves around the country in a small ...

It’s telling that when I ask Renee Scroggins, vocalist and one of the founding members of early 80s New York band ESG if there are any final things she’d like to add to the end of our interview, ...

ESG began when Ma Scroggins bought her daughters instruments in a bid to save them from the South Bronx streets. Two decades on, one of the most sampled bands in history are still going and, as ...

The South Bronx was a war zone in the late '70s, as ESG's Renee Scroggins will tell you. But it was among its gang-ridden, dilapidated tenement blocks that hip-hop was born. Punk, no wave, electro ...

2xCD compilation documents the career of the South Bronx sister act who became a major influence on hip-hop, dance music, and dance-punk.

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 mode… ...

ESG will play Cactus Club Aug. 30 for what will be the 46-year-old act’s first Wisconsin show ever. The South Bronx band has been cited as an influence by LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy ...