Steve Kiviat

Sat. March 7 in DMV DC- Nani & Negussie w/ Band @ Makeda (Ethiopian); Ethiopian music w/ Samri, Fekadu, Eleni & band @ Shalla; Ras Band @ MHL Lounge (Ethiopian); DJ Crown Vic @ Daikaya (global vinyl); more @ stevekiviat.blogspot.com/2026/03/dc-b...

Sat. March 7 in DMV DC- Ethiopian music @ Mulashewa;
Ethiopian music @ JD Bar; Rare Essence @ 11 @ Aqua (go-go);
Original Facez 11 pm @ Shark Bar (go-go); What Band @ Tandoori Lounge (go-go); Tumbao (salsa ) @ 10:30 @ Bossa 1st floor & DJ w/ Latin Hits upstairs; 🧵

Sat. March 7 in DMV DC- Skippa w/ djs 10 pm @ Buena Vista Ballroom Jessup, MD (Jamaican dancehall reggae star on WYFL riddim); Stone Pleasure Band, 1252 Band 7 pm Martini's White Plains (southern soul & grown & sexy r&b); Go-go Allstars & A-Team band for Women's History Month 3-6 pm @ Go-go Museum;🧵

Sat. March 7 in DMV DC- Ghana Independence Day 10 pm @ Karma; Since 1957- A DC trip to Ghana from Afro Code 10 pm @ Lime Twist; Fairfax record riot vinyl sale 10 am; Orquesta Manplesa @ Haydee’s Mt Pleasant ( salsa); Leon City Sounds djs @ Green Zone (tropical); 🧵

Sat. March 7 in DMV DC- Reik @ DAR Const. Hall (Mexican pop ); Push Play @ Air (go-go); Mike Viola @ DC9 (indie power pop); Apollo 66 & Blackstone Marsh @ Cissel Saxon American Legion Post 41 (garage punk); Béton Armé, Seclusion (Record Release!), Live Munition, Sikm @ Comet P. Pong 🧵

Sat. March 7 in DMV DC- Rang De-Virginia holi fest & colors fest 12-6pm @ Dulles Sportsplex; Holi Fest w/ Dj Pandu, dancers 12 to 4 @ Dupont Circle; Soca & Rum (Trinidad carnival return fete) 10 pm @ 8131 Georgia Ave., Silver Spring; Humbe @ Fillmore Silver Spring (Mexican pop singer) 🧵

Fri March 6 in DMV DC- Ethiopian music @ MHL Lounge;
Ethiopian music @ Black Rose Lounge; Ethiopian music 9 to 12 mdt. @ Meleket; more @ stevekiviat.blogspot.com/2026/03/dc-b...

Fri March 6 in DMV DC- After Thought Band @ Lamont’s (soul);
Backyard Band @ Restaurant 55 (go-go); Still Familiar @ Shark Bar (go-go); Junkyard Band @ Urban Crab Lounge (go-go);
Alfredo Mojica Group @ 10:30 @ Bossa (salsa); Belema Band @ Shalla (Ethiopian) 🧵

Fri. March 6 in DMV DC- Oud player Chakib 9pm @ Caramella;
Grandsons & Thrills @ Palisades Hub (roots rock) ; Allure Band @ Takoma Station; Janeese Lewis George benefit w/ Kristi La Rat, many more djs, Sam Elmore live 7:30 to late @ Transmission; What Band feat. Killa Cal @ Piano Keys (go-go) 🧵

Fri, March 6 in DMV DC- Kim Michelle Experience @ House of Soul (go-go); Push Play @ 1865 Steak lounge (go-go); Devin Ocampo & Jerry Busher, Insect Factory, VJ Hyde (Old Knife), Ella G (Lud Roes) 7 pm @ Epicure on King in Alexandria (artsy rock & ambient); TCB, TOB @ Sax (bouncebeat go-go); 🧵

Fri. March 6 in DMV DC- Ratboys, Florry @ 930 (indie rock/pop-punk) (sold out); Norteno war w/ 6 groups incl. Los Militares del Sur @ 90 Degrees; Afro Plus rave w/ DJames (aka James Grey, London afrobeats dj) , Ezetimestwo, Psmoov, & 2 more 10 pm @ AI Warehouse ( afrobeats and amapiano)🧵

On Tiktok, X, and threads one can find various songs using hashtags #wyflriddim or just #wyfl . A little bit here on Bluesky. Not seeing any press coverage for Sat. March 7-Skippa w/ djs 10 pm @ Buena Vista Ballroom Jessup, MD (Jamaican dancehall reggae star on the WYFL riddim). I noticed it late

Jamaican dancehaller Skippa, who's in Jessup, Md Saturday night, uses the DJ Mac created "WYFL" riddim which has since been used by a number of other Jamaican dancehall acts plus Ghanaian Shatta Wale.

WYFL riddim is being used by dancehall folks (as mentioned here by others) and Ghanaian Shatta Wale.

Mumbled Songs, by Mabel June 7 track album

Brendan Canty isn't talking in his IG story today about the digital release of 1992 Albini recorded Fugazi demo, but his daughter Mabel June's (of Birthday Girl DC) first solo release Mumbled Songs. I saw her sing some of these indie-pop-folk songs @ Rhizome. mabeljune.bandcamp.com/album/mumble...

At People’s Book in Takoma Park, Md I saw U of Md professor and Dean Stephanie Shonekan talk about her book on Fela’s Sorrow Tears And Blood record

Oops. I think I caught up on those .

feeds.acast.com/public/shows.... I just listened to EP.32 Adobo: Building Latinx Music Culture, Event Production, Community, & Social Justice @elpedronight.bsky.social & Walter Alvarado of Adobo DMV who do dj events (& speak out against ICE)

i know i'm late to this but it's truly a perfect 'playing from the jukebox in a country divebar in a movie' song, i'm kind of obsessed

I am still catching up on some 2025 music releases including ones from the below lists

Your only DC area March music event calendar w/ multiple Ghana Independence Day events, Don Zientara interview, 90 year old Herb Alpert, soul events at Blue Dolphin & Lamont’s, punk rock, DJs, rap, go-go, norteno, Ethiopian, Caribbean, Asian, a gospel show, blues, and more .

Albini Sessions (Benefit for Letters Charity), by Fugazi 12 track album

fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini... The never before officially released Albini demo sessions from 1992 that Fugazi shelved for In On the Killtaker are now out digitally as a benefit release for the Letters charity)

‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"

Thurs March 5 in DMV DC- Longtimers @ Hank Dietle’s (roots rock influenced by classic New Orleans r&b); Thrills @ JVs (roots pop); DJ Les & Martin Miguel @ Grazie Mille;
Sirius Company @ Mary Lou’s (go-go); more @ stevekiviat.blogspot.com/2026/03/dc-b...

Thurs. March 5 in DMV DC- What Band @ Martinis (go-go);
Reaction @ Black Rose Lounge (bouncebeat go-go); New Impressionz @ Martini's White Plains (go-go & bouncebeat go-go); Ethiopian music w/ Abraham, Danny, Hanna @ Shalla; Push Play @ Ivy City Smokehouse (go-go)🧵

Thurs. March 5 in DMV DC- Cyrus Chestnut 4 & 8 pm @ Keystone Korner Baltimore (jazz pianist) ; The Nude Party @ Union Stage (indie rock); short films by Sara Kazemimanesh & Shahriar Shafiani (US-based Iranians) @ Rhizome; Verny Varela 9:30 pm @ Bossa (cumbia, salsa, vallenata) 🧵

Thurs. March 5 in DMV DC-closing of "Inside Out: Dignity and the Art of Seeing" exhibit (photos taken in pre-digital times by prisoners in jail) w/ Loc’d N Band, Fearless Praise Gospel Singers 6-8 pm @ Eye Street Gallery, 200 I Street SE; Corcoran Holt @ Blues Alley (jazz bassist ) (also on 6th)🧵

Thurs. March 5 in DMV DC- Robert Glasper & Lalah Hathaway @ Warner Theatre; Alex Ubago @ Howard Theatre (singer ballads/ pop from Spain); Black Techno Takeover curated by Adrian Loving w/ DJ Darling Cool, N/uM, screening of Desire: The Carl Craig Story (2025)@ Phillips after 5 to 8:30; 🧵

Republican Senator Says He Doesn’t Wear Seatbelt in D.C. Because He Fears Being Carjacked: ‘I Don’t Buckle Up’ Sen. Markwayne Mullin said he does not wear a seatbelt while driving in Washington, D.C., lest doing so prevent him from acting quickly in case he's carjacked.

A sitting Republican senator says he is so scared driving in DC that he doesn't wear a seatbelt out of fear he might get carjacked and won't be able to escape www.mediaite.com/media/tv/rep...

Lost Recipes | Defector In 1991, Spin magazine took the Compton rap collective N.W.A out to eat for a profile at the Russian Tea Room in Manhattan. The white author presents gangsta rap as a cynical enterprise, no different ...

This is an article about a topic near and dear to my heart, the fact that there are basically no archives for a lot of the important music magazines and it drives me crazy