Ralf Hütter and his bandmates show how profound their influence has been on huge swathes of popular music – and they give a tender tribute to the late Ryuichi Sakamoto ...
In a new book, writer Uwe Schütte takes up a close examination of the unique context that gave rise to one of the century's most influential art... Kraftwerk And Our Computer World In the early-to-mid ...
So it’s hard to reconcile that Kraftwerk are now a heritage act, which feels like the antithesis of their very essence. For ...
Live Review: Kraftwerk at The Globe in Stockton ...
Ironically, it was the influential band’s increased reliance on technology that caused it to splinter, says its former ...
Maybe Kraftwerk had a time machine. How else could they have known thirty years ago what the ambient symphony of everyday life would sound like? The mechanical chirp of the cell phone. The alert chime ...
Wednesday's announcement of the death of Florian Schneider (typically, the actual date he died remains a mystery) sent me down a listening rabbit-hole through the many forms of music which bear his ...
For many people, although surely none of the 800 who jumped through digital hoops to get tickets for tonight's show, Kraftwerk's most recognisable piece of music is the melody from Computer Love, as ...
We last spoke with Karl Bartos some 10 years ago for the release of his wonderful trawl through his own musical archives, Off The Record. For those of us of a certain age, Kraftwerk were arguably the ...
Kraftwerk fans on the hunt for tickets to their 2017 UK tour were left bemused by an automated message asking to confirm they were ‘not a robot’. As the German electro outfit’s concerts rapidly sold ...
In the early-to-mid-'70s, the four members of Kraftwerk were still under-the-radar music experimentalists from the art-leaning city of Düsseldorf – a path they never really diverged from. After all, ...