Mdou Moctar
Mdou Moctar Announces Deluxe Edition of 'Afrique Victime,' Shares New Song
PUBLISHED Feb 22, 2022
Mdou Moctor — the guitar hero born Mahamadou Souleymane — is expanding last year's Afrique Victime LP with nine previously unreleased songs...
Barack Obama Shares His Favourite Songs of 2021
PUBLISHED Dec 17, 2021
Following yesterday's list of top movies, former US president Barack Obama has now shared a list of his favourite songs of 2021. His faves...
Exclaim!'s 30 Best Songs of 2021
PUBLISHED Dec 2, 2021
Looking back over the past 12 months, a surprising trend emerges: spoken word. We don't mean rap, mind you — we're talking about actual spo...
Exclaim!'s 50 Best Albums of 2021
PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2021
After 2020's many delays and cancellations, 2021 was a year of blockbusters. Pop superstars returned after several years of silence, the wo...
Mdou Moctar to Play Canada on 2022 Tour
PUBLISHED Nov 11, 2021
Mdou Moctar has announced a lengthy run of tour dates behind this year's excellent album Afrique Victime, including a pair of shows in Cana...
Watch Mdou Moctar's 'Afrique Victime' Documentary
PUBLISHED Sep 16, 2021
Mdou Moctar has one of Exclaim!'s 31 Best Albums of 2021 So Far in Afrique Victime, and the guitarist has now shared a short documentary be...
Exclaim!'s 31 Best Albums of 2021 So Far
PUBLISHED Jun 15, 2021
The first half of 2021 has felt a bit like being in limbo: the return of the concert industry feels within reach, but with still a few more...
Mdou Moctar Takes His Peerless Guitar Rock to New Heights on 'Afrique Victime'
PUBLISHED May 17, 2021
In his native Tamasheq, one of the Tuareg languages, Mahamadou Souleymane (a.k.a. Mdou Moctar) sings the following on "Chismiten": "To beco...