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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mdou Moctar performs at the Gobi Tent during the 2024 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at Empire Polo Club on April 14, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This Thursday, Matador will release a deluxe edition of Mdou Moctar's fifth studio album, May 2021's Afrique Victime, featuring nine bonus tracks. Today, Moctar is sharing "Nakanegh Dich,” the only ...