Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tinariwen. (Credit: Marie Planeille) It’s easy to forget that Tinariwen broke through before labels and curators Awesome Tapes ...

Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify or Apple Music playlist at the bottom of the page. But that's all a sideshow: The ...

Tinariwen’s ninth album brings guests including Warren Ellis but the real artistry is in their own deft, fearless interplay There is a hazy expansiveness to Tuareg band Tinariwen’s music that recalls ...

Putting aside Bono’s much-derided dancing at the Festival in the Desert – available on YouTube (and, for what it’s worth, more power to him for losing himself in the music) – there are few obvious ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Founded in 1979, Tinariwen still includes original members Ibrahim Ag Alhabib, Touhami Ag Alhassane, and Abdallah Ag Alhousseyni, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Under a dazzling canopy of thousands of stars, with bare feet buried in the fine hourglass sand, I listened to ...

For rockers and rappers of a certain stripe, a hard-bitten back story is an indispensable part of their mystique and a bold-face item in their press releases. What would 50 Cent be without the gun ...

Amatssou, the new album from Tuareg desert blues pioneers Tinariwen, begins with a question. “Why so much silence, all over the world / Only spilt blood / Only brave men killed?,” Abdallah Ag ...

Over the weekend, Tuareg rebels in West Africa made a rapid advance, capturing the cities of Kidal, Gao, and Timbuktu. If Mali is shaped somewhat like a butterfly, the rebels now claim to control its ...

Elwan is a soft, meditative experience that oozes with rebellious indignation. While the mumblings and ramblings of the collective of Tuareg musicians that occur in Tinariwen’s native tongue are ...

Tinariwen—the Tuareg musicians’ collective from Mali—have announced a series of reissues from Wedge Records and Craft Recordings. Wedge will be reissuing the group’s previously limited release from ...

It’s easy to forget that Tinariwen broke through before labels and curators Awesome Tapes from Africa and Sahel Sounds introduced American audiences to similar artists. Yes, Ali Farka Touré may have ...