It’s easy to forget that Tinariwen broke through before labels and curators Awesome Tapes from Africa and Sahel Sounds ...

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 ...

How do the premier ambassadors of Saharan soul navigate a dangerous time? With an album that sonically acknowledges a temporary home in the U.S. First Listen: Tinariwen, 'Emmaar' How do you build on ...

Tinariwen are guitar-poets from the southern Sahara desert and icons of freedom and resistance among their own people, the nomadic Tuareg of the Sahara. Their back-story has been described as ...

Tinariwen’s new album, titled “Emmaar,” begins with a spacey guitar playing a twanging defiant note. Then come lyrics growled in English instead of Tuareg, and instrumentation that would be at home in ...

This Malian band has been around since the '70s. Their music is rooted in the Sahara Desert and combines elements of African folk with Western rock. Electric guitars feature heavily in the mix along ...

This week, however, Birmingham was treated to a back-to-basics line-up of the band, that dropped all external influences, and Tinariwen put on a show that was more than enough to transport those ...

The legend of Tinariwen arrived in the West fully formed on the back of the first Festival in the Desert in 2001. Back then Tinariwen was on hand as a host band for the most isolated music festival in ...

Tinariwen have announced a new album, Hoggar, which will be out March 13 via their own label, Wedge. It features contributions from José González and Sudanese artist Sulafa Elyas. The first single ...

The Tuareg people of West Africa are descended from nomads who traveled in caravans along the Sahara desert. They've been fighting for an independent homeland for decades and in the '80s, the Tuareg ...

Writing a weekly list of recommended NYC concerts challenges me to find new things. This week I discovered Tinariwen. “Tinariwen is a Touareg group from the southern Sahara whose music is close to the ...