Tag Archives: Mdou Moctar
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The 108 best albums of 2021: 70-61
The best albums of 2021 include Wale, Torres, Eric Church, serpentwithfeet, Mdou Moctar, Valerie June, Danny Elfman, Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth, Japanese Breakfast and Mastodon. Best of 202 Whew, we’ve almost made it halfway through our list of the best albums of 2021. This year may have felt…
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Album Review: Mdou Moctar takes guitar by the reigns on ‘Afrique Victime’
The last 20 years have been an arid epoch for those rock fans who still worship at the temple of the electric guitar. Long gone are the halcyon days when radio and pop culture bowed before indulgent shredders and rude riffing. The fresh, six-string sounds of Mdou Moctar provide…
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Hardly Strictly Bluegrass: Emmylou Harris, Judy Collins sharp on final day
Emmylou Harris performs at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Oct. 6, 2019. Photos: Martin Lacey. SAN FRANCISCO — Everything one could ask for from a music festival in Golden Gate Park was on display Sunday, as the 19th annual incarnation of Hardly Strictly…
