Here are five takeaways that seal the band's legendary Man Machine status - and shed a light on how Kling Klang really ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...