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 ...

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 ...

As soon as Mdou Moctar plugs in at the Tiny Desk, the Saharan shred begins. The music feels midstream, as if the licks never cease in his fingers — guitar strings bend with the utmost gentility, but, ...

In early August of last year, the Tuareg band Mdou Moctar was in the midst of a North American tour, the group’s biggest to date. Its punk-driven energy and transformative, sprawling displays of ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - On Thursday night, June 20, the Beachland Ballroom will welcome Mdou Moctar, the band and the singer-songwriter and guitarist who has been referred to as the “Hendrix of the Sahara.” ...

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Guitarist Mdou Moctar has been bringing a new kind of music to the world steeped in his cultural heritage. His latest album strikes a decidedly political chord in response to upheaval and a military ...

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 ...

Correction: A graphic in this piece misspelled the name of bassist Mikey Coltun. The transcript has been updated. We regret the error. Guitarist Mdou Moctar has been ...

The performance venue at the Hare and Hounds is just a room above large-ish pub and so the first that most of the Birmingham crowd of hip predominantly 30-somethings saw of Moctar and his crew was ...