You don’t have to be a child of the ’70s or ’80s to appreciate the music of Kraftwerk, the seminal German electronic outfit known for its groundbreaking production and seemingly endless influence.
To mark the 35th anniversary of the German electro pioneers’ landmark album ‘Autobahn’, Kraftwerk’s entire eight-CD catalogue is being remastered and reissued by Mute. Think of German music today, and ...
Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...
Fifty years ago this month, an album was released in the U.S. that proved to be akin to a quake under a placid sea, one that created a ripple that grew into a tidal wave. That album was "Autobahn," ...
In our Pioneers series, we illuminate the genius of the most influential artists and producers in musical history. This month, we take on Kraftwerk, the extraordinarily influential German four-piece ...
This summer—if by any miracle the virus permits—a septuagenarian man will headline a major English music festival. Nothing unusual about that, you might think, in a business where Paul McCartney and ...
Florian Schneider — co-founder of pioneering German electronic outfit Kraftwerk — has died. The artist's passing was confirmed today, with reps informing the media he succumbed to cancer. Schneider ...
Kraftwerk co-founder Florian Schneider has died at 73, as Billboard confirms. Schneider started the pioneering electronic group with Ralf Hütter, who he met while they were classical music students at ...