I’m standing on a street corner in downtown Dusseldorf, listening to two jolly German musicologists called Michael Wenzel and Sven-Andre Dreyer explaining the genesis of electronic music. It all feels ...

Imagine an era when mainstream music wasn't filled with synthesizers. When electronic music wasn't a force propelling everything from pop and hip-hop to music from the underground. There was a time ...

On this edition of All Songs Considered, we take a musical journey honoring the genius of Kraftwerk's Florian Schneider, who died May 6, just a few days after turning 73. Kraftwerk's music was so very ...

The post Kraftwerk to Perform Catalog Over Nine-Night Residency in Los Angeles appeared first on Consequence. Kraftwerk have announced a nine-night residency at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los ...

We're living in the future that Kraftwerk hypothesized and synthesized on 1981's Computer World. On that classic album, the German electronic-music pioneers postulated a populace enraptured and ...

Former Kraftwerk percussionist Karl Bartos features in the new issue of Uncut (February 2013, Take 189), out now, discussing the upcoming Kraftwerk retrospective shows in London, and his own new solo ...

Synth pioneers Kraftwerk are currently on their Multimedia Tour that also doubles as a 50th anniversary celebration of their landmark album Autobahn. They hit NYC last week for shows at Brooklyn’s ...

Florian Schneider and Ralf Hütter started electro-pop band Kraftwerk in 1970 Florian Schneider, co-founder of the influential electronic music band Kraftwerk, has died at age 73. The German band ...

It is not just that Kraftwerk invented the future of music; it is that a startling amount of the music you hear today, from the most obscure indie rock to the most mainstream pop to literally every ...

Up in the second floor’s atrium, a scrim was raised at the appointed hour to reveal the quartet – led by 65-year-old co-founder Ralf Hütter, providing all the vocoderfied vocals – squeezed like ...

Kraftwerk’s “Trans Europe Express” is the most important pop album of the last 40 years, though it may not be obvious. The first high-art electronic pop record, “Trans Europe Express” set the tone for ...

In a trademark fight over "kraftwerk," who has the power? By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor-at-Large Get out the German translation dictionary because Ralf Hutter has met a machine where coexistence ...