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. In West Germany in the early 1970s ...

“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 from his partner’s house in Pisa, Italy. Although he would never have ...

German guitarist Michael Rother helped to revolutionize music during the '70s in the groups Neu! and Harmonia. (He also briefly played in Kraftwerk in 1971, but couldn't fully express himself in that ...

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 ...

AcidMothersGuruGuru features Mani Neumeier from the legendary and influential German Krautrock group Guru Guru as well as Kawabata Makoto and Atsushi Tsuyama from Japan’s holy Acid Mothers Temple. The ...

Holger Czukay, the bassist and co-founder of seminal German krautrock pioneers Can, died Tuesday, per the Cologne newspaper Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. He was 79. “We are very sad to confirm that Holger ...

Pavement lead singer Stephen Malkmus recently played a 40-year-old Krautrock album at a small German festival with a band he hardly knew. He talks to DW about German band Can's album 'Ege Bamyasi' - ...

When asked about their influences, nearly every contributor in Synth Britannia enthused about German electronic music of the mid 70s. Bands such as Neu!, Faust, Cluster, Tangerine Dream and, of course ...

Somehow, impossibly, it felt as if Damo Suzuki couldn’t die. Too constantly changing, too fluid and intimately connected as a feature of the alternative music world, too irrevocably wedded to the ...

"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 ...