For two millenniums, the nomadic Tuareg people have wandered the Sahara of North Africa. Tinariwen, a Tuareg blues rock collective, chronicles life in the desert and the plight of those displaced by ...

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 ...

The band members live on the edge of the Sahara Desert, in an environment of sand and distance that reflects their nomad roots. The men often wear intricate scarves that cover their hair and most of ...

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 ...

Tinariwen, a collective of musicians from the southern Saharan desert, reinterpret traditional African melodies and rhythms on electric and acoustic guitars, overlaying them with poignant lyrics ...

The next musician to complain about how difficult it is to get discovered might tone down the volume after hearing the story of Tinariwen. That the band comes from the West African nation of Mali may ...

The sound of rainfall closes Tenere Taqhim Tossam, a song on Tinariwen's new album, Tassili. It's not a canned sound created by an electronic device but rather a recording of actual precipitation in ...

Tonight, Malian desert band Imarhan Timbuktu performs at Bossa and on Saturday Tinariwen, the well-known Saharan desert combo, plays Sixth & I Historic Synagogue. While the appearance of guitar-toting ...

Guitar gods of North Africa bring their hypnotic trance to these shores in summer Tinariwen Tinariwen. Photo: Eric Chute Tinariwen in the USA Tinariwen at Electric Picnic in 2008. Photo: PA Tinariwen ...

The nomadic Kel Tamashek of North Africa, better known as the Tuareg, cast a mysterious shadow. But from a permanent local exhibit at the Field Museum to a convoluted supporting role in Libya’s recent ...