On The First Album From D.C.’s Feedel Band, The Future Of Ethio-Jazz Is Now
Ethio-jazz combo the The Feedel Band is best known for evoking the funky, minor-chord, ’70s-era East African music collected on…
Steve Kiviat
Steve Kiviat is a freelance writer in the D.C. area. He writes for Bandwidth and the Washington City Paper, and his work has appeared in the Washington Post.
Articles by Steve Kiviat
Remembering Billy Stewart And Van McCoy, Two Lesser-Known D.C. Music Legends
Duke Ellington, Marvin Gaye and Chuck Brown may be the best-known musical legends out of D.C. But they’re not the…
More Than Just Covers: Team Familiar Helps Kick Off A Day Of New Go-Go Music
Update, May 16: This post has been updated to include a new Team Familiar video for “Straight to the Bar.”…
How Hardway Connection Found Fame In A Scene It Had Never Heard Of
Tune into WPFW 89.3 Saturday afternoons, and you’re bound to hear Hardway Connection. The Maryland combo wrote the upbeat earworm “Southern…
Almost Breaking Up May Have Been A Wonderful Thing For Elikeh
After being together five years, Afropop band Elikeh had reached an impasse. The group had creative differences, says frontman Massama…
Remembering D.C. Guitar Virtuoso Danny Gatton And ‘The Anacostia Delta’
Over the last few years, D.C.’s hardcore punk scene has been memorialized by multiple films and TV shows. But soon,…
Get To Know Chip Py, The Go-Go Photographer With A DIY Talk Show About D.C. Music
While the Corcoran’s 2013 exhibit “Pump Me Up” might have conditioned some to think of the D.C. area’s homegrown funk…
Which Peruvian Artists To See At The Smithsonian Folklife Festival
There’s more to Peruvian music than Andean flute players — and when this summer’s Smithsonian Folklife Festival resumes today near…
Looking For D.C.’s Most Interesting Music? Try The Library.
Who’d have thought that the cutting edge of D.C. music could be found in a library? “Obviously, at first, music…
The Story of Kato Hammond, The D.C. Go-Go Scene’s Best News Source
Kevin Hammond was 14 when he saw D.C. go-go band Rare Essence — in matching red sweatsuits — perform at Prince George’s Community…
Meet Tal National’s Almeida, A Judge By Day And Electrifying Bandleader By Night
Hamadal Issoufou Moumine works as a judge by day. By night, he plays guitar with his Afropop dance band Tal…