I like this new John Cale w/ Charli XCX song (video on the link) pitchfork.com/news/charli-...

*Just added* Mon. 11-10 -*Push Play 8-12 mdt @ Mix & Mingle coffee Lounge Clinton, MD (go-go) *; *DJ Casper blue-eyed soul & yacht rock party 7 pm @ Everyday People, U St NW *; Wed. 11-12- George Pelecanos & others noir reading @ Quarry House; Sat 11-15- Rumba in Dupont Underground; more*

Mon. Nov 10 in DMV DC- Rare Essence & Northeast Groovers Veterans Day @ Howard Theatre (go-go); TCB 25th year anniv. 10 pm @ Next Level 15 K St NE (bouncebeat go-go); Brian Baker (Minor Threat, Bad Religion) w/ photo book The Road w/ Tony Pence 7pm @ Central Library Baltimore, 400 Cathedral St; 🧵

The replacement for Tom Sietsema as the Washington Post’s restaurant critic is Berkeley CA native Elazar Sontag, who’s been the restaurant editor at Bon Appetit magazine for past 3.5 years and lived in New York for past 6. Now lives in Columbia Heights www.washingtonpost.com/food/2025/11...

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/m... saw Iranian director Panahi’s retribution against authoritarian officials mystery “It was Just an Accident “ @ the AFI Silver , & you should see it too

"He befriended Stravinsky and, no stranger to the arts of chance himself, Lam became acquainted with composer John Cage on a trip to New York in 1946. But it was Afro-Cuban and Afro-Caribbean ritual music and dance that would most profoundly reverberate in his work."

Newness Cuba drops on Friday. Some beauties, every week. open.spotify.com/playlist/1gP...

Takaat, w/ 3 members of Mdou Moctar’s band were noisy & rhythmic @ Rhizome DC Friday Nov 7

I am with the Grammy cynics wondering how Bad Bunny's producers did not get nominated for "best producer, non-classical"

Trump getting booed at the Commanders game

Sunday Nov. 9 in DMV DC

Kickstarter for Something for the People doc about Yaddiya & the Moe chella go-go protests www.kickstarter.com/projects/stf...

I need to listen to new Mavis Staples album, new Juana Molina, give another try to Rosalía ‘s Lux ( just ok on 1st listen) , catch up on Afropop & southern soul singles , & dig into late Lo Borges catalog. Some rock stuff I am forgetting now also.

Lots of albums from all over worth checking out below

This has not gotten much attention, but it should. Virginia under Youngkin returned to an insanely harsh system where people convicted of any felony lose their voting rights FOR LIFE. Dems' win this week mean they'll get to advance a constitutional amendment to end lifetime disenfranchisement.

Sat. Nov. 8 in DMV DC- Bill Orcutt, Steve Shelley, Ethan Miller Trio, Ribs @ Comet P Pong ( avante-power guitar trio); National Hand Dance Assoc.'s Sock Hop Fundraiser 4-8 pm @ VFW 9619, 6527 Suitland Road, Morningside, MD; "Sun Ra: Do the Impossible" film @ MD Film Fest 5pm @ Parkway Theater 1 🧵

Listening to the southern soul party show on WPFW now. Heard a good line dance song and this Big Yayo song.

How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...

most of my group chats right now are federal workers trying to help each other find food and emergency help people are getting tripped up in red tape trying to get a pittance of unemployment that doesn’t cover DC housing people don’t have assurance about backpay and are worried savings are gone

Got a tour from Yaddiya from the Long Live Go-go entity of the 1223 Potomac Gallery in Georgetown that includes artwork by Jett Carter

We’ve been trying for 10 months to remove Judge Cannon’s gag order blocking the full release of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on Trump’s mishandling of classified documents. This week, a federal appeals court gave Cannon 60 days to rule. americanoversight.org/appeals-cour...

Fri. Nov. 7 in DMV DC- Punk the Capital movie doc & farewell of DC punk photo exhibit @ Galactic Panther; Takaat, Comm Unlimited @ Rhizome (desert blues band playing more noisy & punky) (SOLD OUT) ; Charlie Aponte & orchestra @ Diamond Lounge (salsa singer who was in El Gran Combo); 🧵

www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2... The Washington Post has an obit for the great Brazilian Lo Borges .

The @phat59.bsky.social Antonia Tricarico photo exhibit @ Galactic Panther in Alexandria runs thru Friday when there’s a closing party & a showing of the film Punk the Capital

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.

The @phat59.bsky.social Antonia Tricarico photo exhibit @ Galactic Panther in Alexandria runs thru Friday when there’s a closing party & a showing of the film Punk the Capital

Thurs. Nov. 6 in DMV DC- Dwight Yoakam @ MGM National Harbor ( country); Disappearance of Ms Scott film 5pm @ LOC (jazz pianist who was blacklisted); "Butthole Surfers: The Whole Truth & Nothing Butt" film doc @ MD Film Fest 6:45 @ Parkway Theatre 1 Balt.; Verny Varela 9:30 pm @ Bossa (Salsa)🧵

"Rivera-Rideau criticized the Latin Grammys for excluding Bad Bunny’s longtime producers, Tainy and MAG, who did not receive a nomination for producer of the year, despite the Puerto Rican star having the most Latin Grammy nominations ... for his critically-acclaimed album, “Debí Tirar Más Fotos.”🧵

Capital Bop top live dc area jazz picks for November 2025 www.capitalbop.com/dc-jazz-club...

Wed. Nov. 5 in DMV DC- Vicki Petersen, John Cowsill @ Jammin Java; Smashing Times, Mesh, Added Dimensions @ Black Cat red room (indie guitar pop); Hannah Frances @ Songbyrd (folk & prog critic fave); Sirius Company @ Sobe (go-go) stevekiviat.blogspot.com/2025/11/dc-b...

Longtime DC jazz sax player Herb Scott nicely led a trio through jazz standards @ Eatopia Ethiopian restaurant last night Monday while I was eating there with my wife & her pals who she had been in the Peace Corps with. It's a noisy room w/ lots of folks talking. Herb Scott is there every Monday

Catching up on Nigerian vocalist Shallipopi. In addition to below song "Laho" there's a few 2025 collaborations out too youtu.be/qARrn7G067w?...

Tues. Nov. 4 in DMV DC- Skrilla @ DC 9 (rapper of “6-7” fame); Kimya Dawson, Art Sorority, Rosslyn Station @ Black Cat; Still Familiar @ Fast Eddie's (go-go); Ethiopian music @ Lion’s Den in Falls Church stevekiviat.blogspot.com/2025/11/dc-b...

30 years ago today, on Saturday the 4th of November 1995, Fugazi played Grind, Sacramento, CA, USA with Dub Narcotic and The Warmers. www.dischord.com/fugazi_live_... #fugazi #otd

www.hayfestival.com/p-24256-hugo... Gang of 4 & Fugazi drummers in conversation ( about that & the other things they have done)

RIP @ 73 Lo Borges, the Brazilian songwriting collaborator of Milton Nasciemento on much of the 1971 recorded, 1972 released Clube da Esquina, and part of the collective w/ that name who melded Brazilian sounds w/ Beatles, baroque pop, psych & jazz pop. He also recorded solo albums.

Brett Kavanaugh's behavior during today's second oral arguments has been incredibly obnoxious and rude. He is so eager to kill a service member's lawsuit against a negligent government contractor that he keeps interrupting other justices, raising his voice, and getting emotional. Weird and erratic.

Mon. Nov. 3 in DMV DC- Little Simz @ Fillmore; David Chappell Blues Band 6-9 @ Westminster Church SW; Robert Plant’s Saving Grace feat. Suzi Dian @ Lincoln Theatre (sold out); Ethiopian music live @ Napoli Lounge; Ethiojazz @ Shalla; stevekiviat.blogspot.com/2025/11/dc-b...

"Tehrangeles Vice" -'80s pop from Iranians in Los Angeles collection now available www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Added to calendar-"Butthole Surfers: The Whole Truth and Nothing Butt" film doc as part of MD Film Fest Thurs. 11-6 & Sat. 11-8 (crazed 80s Texas punk);"Sun Ra: Do the Impossible" film Sat. as part of MD Film Fest 5pm @ Parkway Theater 1 stevekiviat.blogspot.com/2025/11/dc-b...

Hurricane Relief benefit concert for Jamaica on Nov. 8 from 6-10 @ Caribe Express in Laurel, Md

Teddy’s Roti Shop is moving south on Georgia Ave NW in DC. It was serving good Caribbean food since 1994 @ the original upper Georgia Ave address in Instagram screenshot below

Dis de Los Muertos on Nov 2 event in Lamont Park, Mt Pleasant DC includes 7pm free screening of great film about DC-based Salvadorans “The Most Beautiful Deaths in the World “ ( English title )

stevekiviat.blogspot.com/2025/11/dc-b... November 2025 DMV DC area live music, djs, music book talks w/ rock, go-go, African, r&b, rap, Caribbean, Asian, roots & more

stevekiviat.blogspot.com/2025/11/dc-b... November 2025 DMV DC area live music, djs, music book talks w/ rock, go-go, African, r&b, rap, Caribbean, Asian, roots & more

wpfwfm.org/radio/ WPFW is doing a D’Angelo special today Saturday till midnight

This experimental and prog electronic music fest is today Saturday Nov 1 in Hunt Valley, Md

Also Sat. Nov 1 in DMV DC- Fall Porchfest Adams Morgan 2-6 pm w/ UCB @ 2 on 18th st NW; Bateria EducArte samba drumming @ 3 in front of El Tamarindo Restaurant on Florida Ave. NW ; Prabir trio 3 pm @ Pepco stage; Bongo District 5 pm @ 18th st stage