Performing their 1978 album The Man Machine in full, Kraftwerk restate the uncertainty of the natural order. Whether prophetic or not, their message still resonates. Introducing The Man Machine before ...

Performance-wise, no Kraftwerk show is really more special than any other. The band’s very German mastery of automation, precision, and repetition renders the men on stage as close to robots as their ...

In the annals of rock music, acrimonious break-ups have been attributed to rock'n'roll excess, irreconcilable artistic differences and, of course, the lure of a solo career. But only one band can ...

Kraftwerk are the founding kings of electronic music. Their venerated 1970s canon - which includes the seminal likes of Autobahn, Trans-Europe Express and The Man-Machine - forever changed the ...

To say Kraftwerk are a band of few words is kinda like saying they’re a band of few sounds — both would be right and both would be wrong. Both would also be a compliment. Why? Well, in the first place ...

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 ...

Kraftwerk, who are to perform eight of their pulsating electronic albums at Tate Modern, are the genius architects of today’s hit music, writes Paul Morley. Most pop music today – commercial, clubby ...

Kraftwerk didn’t tour on the back of The Man Machine’s release, possibly due to being stung by criticism of their new image (too militaristic for the French and too Communist for America, where their ...