Fifty years ago, German rock groups including Neu!, Can and Kraftwerk created an eclectic sound that had never been heard before. It remains as exhilarating as ever. The social and musical ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “If you had asked me 50 years ago what I would be doing in a year, I wouldn’t have had an answer,” says Michael Rother over Zoom ...

They blagged a fortune off their label after promising to be ‘the German Beatles’ – then went wild in the countryside making experimental krautrock. But was there more to Faust than pneumatic drills ...

David Stubbs’s story of Can, Kraftwerk and Germany’s postwar generation is enthusiastic and well researched At the dawn of the 1970s, British rock had sunk into the mellow denim heaven of Linda ...

The all-covers concert "Krautrock Classics: An Evening of Cosmic German Music" featured artists including Nite Jewel, Peanut Butter Wolf, Carlos Nino and psych-rocker Ariel Pink. By Colin Stutz An ...

This humble musical revolutionary would rather you not use the term "krautrock," but he's not offended by it. Credit: GRÖNLAND RECORDS The first three LPs by the former established the motorik ...

It was all very low key, I know, but you may have noticed in recent weeks a word or two was written about Kraftwerk, David Bowie and, by extension, Germany. In case you missed it, Bowie re-cast his ...

The traditional rock ‘n’ roll laser show just got a reboot. A quick scan of the repertoire reveals your standard-issue Planetarium jams: Led Zeppelin, the Doors, Grateful Dead, and, of course, Pink ...

In a 1970 film clip documenting a performance of the song “Mother Sky,” drummer Jaki Liebezeit sits upright, lost in rhythm as he propels the influential German rock band Can. He moves as if he were ...

Documentary looking at how a radical generation of musicians in bands like Neu!, Can, Faust and Kraftwerk created a new German musical identity out of the cultural ruins of war. Show more Documentary ...

"Whether it could become influential didn't even cross my mind," he says. By Robert Levine “If you had asked me 50 years ago what I would be doing in a year, I wouldn’t have had an answer,” says ...