Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Gary Miller/WireImage Hailing from the desert city of Agadez in Niger, Mdou Moctar is a genuine trailblazer. With a sound ...

By now, Mdou Moctar's ferocious fingerpicking guitar style has established him as an important voice in the contemporary guitar world. On his latest album, Funeral For Justice, Moctar pushes the ...

Tuareg group Mdou Moctar will release their new album Funeral for Justice on May 3 via Matador. The album was produced by the band’s bassist, Mikey Coltun. This is Mdou Moctar’s most political album ...

Tuareg guitarist Mdou Moctar has released a new track, “Taliat,” from his upcoming album, Afrique Victime, out May 21st via Matador. “Taliat” is centered around Moctar’s billowing guitar lines, which ...

Prodigious Tuareg guitarist and songwriter Mdou Moctar boldly reforges contemporary Saharan music and "rock music" by melding Eddie Van Halen pyrotechnics, full-blast noise and guitar shredding, field ...

On July 26, 2023, Niger’s democratically elected president Mohamed Bazoum was overthrown in a coup, which prevented Mdou Moctar from safely returning home to Niger. The military coup happened shortly ...

Thirteen minutes of frenetic and questing and smoldering guitar soloing propelled along by an impossibly tinny drum-machine loop. Swirling sunburnt space-rock recorded live-bootleg style at Nigerian ...

There’s a simple reason for the frenzied sound of Mdou Moctar’s music. “For me, it’s like the world is going crazy,” says the electric guitarist, a descendant of the Tuareg people of the West African ...

Mdou Moctar was halfway around the world, in the middle of a lengthy tour in 2019, when his partner gave birth. The Tuareg guitarist, who hails from the Saharan desert City of Agadez in central Niger ...

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Depending on where you are in the world, life after the death of physical music looks very different. In West Africa, the post-CD landscape was populated by market stalls selling SIM and micro-SD ...