With "Afrique Victime" the prodigious Tuareg guitarist and songwriter rips a new hole in the sky – boldly reforging contemporary Saharan music and “rock music” by melding guitar pyrotechnics, full-blast noise, and field recordings with poetic meditations on love, religion, women's rights, inequality, and Western Africa’s exploitation at the hands of colonial powers. The music listeners are the beneficiaries of the staggeringly powerful do-it-yourself musical ethic of Mdou Moctar – the man and the band – who’ve worked so hard to bring the spirits of families and communities in Niger to the West. Afrique Victime sounds and feels like a Tuareg hand reaching down from the sky, and we are very lucky for this chance to get lifted.
Time | Venue | Age | |
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The Dreaded Laramie / Hit Like a Girl / Trash Boy | 7:00pm | Nikki Lopez | 21+ |
Hello Mary / Lip Critic | 7:00pm | Warehouse on Watts | All Ages |
Time | Venue | Age | |
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Deerhoof / Early Grave | 8:00pm | Underground Arts | 21+ |
Bex Burch / Peter Zummo / Che Chen | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
Time | Venue | Age | |
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Japa System / DJ Rebel Foster | 8:00pm | The Lounge at World Cafe Live | All Ages |
The Rumjacks / Crazy & The Brains / Tired Radio | 8:00pm | Milkboy Philly | 21+ |
David Murray and Kahil El’Zabar | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
Daniela Soledade | 8:00pm | Nikki Lopez | 21+ |
Time | Venue | Age | |
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Cloakroom | 6:00pm | Spruce Street Harbor | All Ages |
The Phantom AD / Civil Rats / Problem Addict / DJ Grey Haas | 7:00pm | Nikki Lopez | 21+ |
West Philadelphia Orchestra | 7:00pm | Black Squirrel Club | All Ages |
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs / Rickshaw Billie's Burger Patrol | 8:00pm | Underground Arts | 21+ |
Time | Venue | Age | |
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Sweet Pill / Duex Visages / Boo Boo Spoiler | 7:00pm | Ukie Club | All Ages |
Steel Pulse 50th Anniversary Tour Night #1 | 7:00pm | Ardmore Music Hall | 21+ |
Lanah (homecoming show) / Grocer / Destructos / Generalife | 7:00pm | Nikki Lopez | 21+ |