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 ...

Tuareg guitarist Mdou Moctar has released a new album, Afrique Victime, today via Matador. Now that it’s out, you can stream the whole thing below. Also, on Thursday we posted our new interview with ...

On an evening in early May, Mdou Moctar was at home in Tchintabaraden, a village in the west of Niger, just south of the Sahara Desert. Not long after the sun had dipped beneath the horizon, the ...

As Mdou Moctar prepared to launch their tour in support of an upcoming acoustic album, bassist Mikey Coltun was looking forward to the spontaneity of it. “We’ve never done it,” Coltun said last week. ...

Unless you're fluent in the Tamasheq language favoured by North Africa's nomadic tribes, you won't understand exactly what Nigerien artist Mdou Moctar (birth name Mahamadou Souleymane) is singing ...

Mdou Moctar has released a new single titled ‘Oh France’, a track from their upcoming album named ‘Funeral For Justice’, which will be released on Friday, 3rd May. Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett in ...

Ever since the Malian "desert blues" band Tinariwen began to build an international audience at the dawn of the millennium, a steady stream of Saharan guitar music has been making its way around the ...

Back in the ’60s, the template for a protest singer was set as an earnest fingerstyle folkie, regaling a cross-legged audience in a Greenwich Village coffee house. 5,000 miles away, and a half-century ...

Artists Dimmu Borgir’s Silenoz on playing a guitar inspired by a shark – and why you can be black metal and still love the blues Artists “My advice is play the song. Can you find a part that is ...

At the end of 2021, we asked you to vote on who you thought was the best Alternative Guitarist of the year. You chose Mdou Moctar, who, thanks to his inventive playing style is turning heads and ...