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 ...

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 have announced the new album Funeral for Justice. The band’s follow-up to 2021’s Afrique Victime is out May 3 via Matador. Watch the music video for the new LP’s title song below. Formally ...

Mdou Moctar has a reputation for engrossing live performances and this concert at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Opera House (BAM) on Friday, 25 February, was no exception. He is riding the crest of ...