The audience are on their feet and dancing, during a jazz concert by Minneapolis U.S. Bluesman Bernard Allison in Constantine, Algeria. Young people climbed up the old marble columns of the hall for a ...

Algeria has officially indicated its interest in hosting a future edition of the All Africa Music Awards, signalling a potential expansion of the African Union-backed Pan-African music platform into ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Pierre Bensusan is a student of music, and that's had a huge impact on his material. The French-Algerian ...

Rai, an Algerian musical genre newly registered by the UN agency as part of the world's 'intangible cultural heritage', has accompanied the country's social changes for a century Cheb Khaled played a ...

Rachid Taha, who became a rock star in France with assertive lyrics and music that melded his Algerian heritage with punk, funk and electronic beats, has died in Les Lilas, a Paris suburb. He was 59.

The death of Algerian icon Idir has brought an important chapter of Algerian music to a close. Through his brilliant career, Idir modernised and promoted the richness of Kabyle melodies and poetry, ...