German electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk have announced they will celebrate the 50th anniversary of their iconic Autobahn album with reissues on three different formats through Parlophone Records on ...

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 ...

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 ...

This year Radioinfo will take you back 50 years to the songs that were released in 1974. It was a mighty fine year for music. For something so ahead of its time, and lengthy, it was remarkably ...

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 ...

Half a century ago, give or take a year, two of the most influential artists of the late 20th century released their respective breakthrough albums, each featuring a very long title track about ...

The four identically dressed members of Kraftwerk stood before electronic consoles, glowing lecterns outlined in strips of blue light, in a dark Walt Disney Concert Hall. Above them, three-dimensional ...

As Kraftwerk would say: “Wir fahr’n, fahr’n, fahr’n auf der Autobahn.” Or as the non-Deutschländers among us might intone: “We drive, drive, drive on the motorway.” Yes, those are lyrics from the ...

Kraftwerk - widely known today as the godfathers of electronic music - arrived on the scene back in 1974 with their groundbreaking album Autobahn. The German machine-men had previously released three ...

Florian Schneider, a keyboardist and co-founder of the German electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk, has died after a short battle with cancer, a representative for the band told TheWrap. He was 73.