Mdou Moctar have shared a new concert film titled The Agadez Folders: Live at Sultan’s Palace. The first in a series of live sessions filmed in Niger before their album Funeral for Justice was ...

Ahead of tour dates in Europe and the United States, Mdou Moctar have released video of a special performance in Agadez, Niger, that they filmed last year. A 47-minute video, titled The Agadez Folders ...

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 ...

Mdou Moctar, the musician who leads the band of the same name, is an absolute guitar shredder and a true road dog who's earned a reputation as one of the best live performers on the indie rock circuit ...

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 ...

On the album “Funeral for Justice,” released in May, guitar phenom Mdou Moctar isn’t holding back. He never really has, not since he officially started releasing music in 2008. Moctar is a Tuareg ...

Newport Folk Festival held its 2023 edition last weekend (7/28-7/30), and in addition to the live sets he caught, photographer Emilo Herce did portraits with many of the weekend’s performers, ...

Nigerien quartet Mdou Moctar are releasing a new album, Funeral for Justice, on May 3 via Matador. Now they have shared its second single, “Imouhar,” via a music video. Lauren Greenhall directed the ...

Hear songs from Beyoncé, Alvvays, Mdou Moctar and more. By Lindsay Zoladz I sincerely hope I am not the first person to break this news to you, but it’s true: Summer is almost over. Let us not mourn ...

Five months ago, Tuareg guitarist Mdou Moctar released a new album called Funeral for Justice, a furious, frenetic fusion of psychedelia, hard rock, and West African desert blues that left critics ...

Mdou Moctar uses his guitar to emulate the sound of a siren. During the recording sessions for Funeral for Justice, his band’s latest album, Moctar inched his hand toward the high edge of his lefty ...