The Inadan are blacksmiths and craftpersons who live among and work for the Tuareg, but who are a distant class. Casajus discusses the concept and orgins of the Inadan class, then looks at particular ...

We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Mikey Coltun grew up moshing to such D.C. hardcore legends as Fugazi and Jawbox. It was his first taste of music that made the audience experience a ...

Thirteen minutes of frenetic and questing and smoldering guitar soloing propelled along by an impossibly tinny drum-machine loop. Swirling sunburnt space-rock recorded live-bootleg style at Nigerian ...

Romanticized by European colonizers as fierce, camel-riding warriors swathed in indigo veils, the semi-nomadic Tuareg people of North and West Africa for centuries coaxed a livelihood from their harsh ...

The music of Mali's Tuareg people is music of resistance. Master traders of the Sahara desert for millenia, they've never enjoyed significant political power, and their musical culture reflects that ...

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