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 ...

These are three of the weirdest one-hit wonders from 1974. “Autobahn” by Kraftwerk from ‘Autobahn’ (1974) Kraftwerk has been making music for 50 years, and still people don’t know what to do with them ...

German electronic music pioneers and Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Kraftwerk will celebrate the 50th anniversary of their groundbreaking 1974 album, Autobahn, with a nine-date residency at the Walt ...

Between 1974 and 1981, Kraftwerk made five startlingly original albums that were influential enough to shape entire genres, including experimental rock, synth pop, and electronic dance music. But… By ...

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 ...

Ralf Hütter was the driving force of Kraftwerk, the German pioneers of electronic music. They created a sound that would influence countless other musicians. January 1975: Strange electronic sounds ...

Florian Schneider, co-founder of Kraftwerk, has died at 73 of cancer, according to NPR. I loved this band ever since I first heard the 1981 album Computer World. Most people didn’t even have computers ...

Florian Schneider, who has died of cancer aged 73, was the co-founder of Kraftwerk, the German group whose embrace of synthesisers and new digital technology in the 1970s changed the pop-punk music ...

AI generated books are often the butt of jokes about how awful they are, but now there’s one robot who’s written a book worth reading and considering as a Christmas gift for musical tree story lovers.

Fifty years ago, in 1970, Kraftwerk, led by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider, formed in the German Rhineland city of Düsseldorf. Their first three albums were progressive jazz-inflected rock. But ...