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 ...

The German musician, who died at 73, shaped sounds that provided templates for countless varieties of electronic dance music, rock and hip-hop. By Jon Pareles Machines making music. Repetitive, ...

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 ...

Electronic music innovators Kraftwerk. 1 The Model/Computer Love Kraftwerk 2 Oh Julie Shakin’ Stevens 3 Golden Brown The Stranglers 4 The Land of Make Believe Bucks Fizz 5 Dead Ringer For Love Meat ...

Cologne’s Club Moroco was a window into the many different styles of music that Germans were getting down to in the early ‘80s. The space was open between 1982 and 1986 in Hohenzollernring, and what ...

In 1982, a teenaged-Organized Noize member Patrick “Sleepy” Brown heard Afrika Bambaataa and the Soulsonic Force’s “Planet Rock” for the first time. He was hooked by the song’s combination of rap ...

Kraftwerk co-founder Florian Schneider, who has died at the age of 73, helped forge a new future for pop, changing the sounds and techniques of how music was made. The US and the UK are often ...

Kraftwerk at the United Palace on Tuesday. Keeyahtay Lewis/Deadboltphotos.com The best concerts are not just heard, they are experienced. On Tuesday night at United Palace (where they will play a ...

HAVING deprogrammed and unplugged themselves for much of the '80s and '90s, German electronic pop pioneers Kraftwerk reappeared at the start of the new millennium. But where 20 years before they'd ...

Florian Schneider, the co-founder of the pioneering electronic music group Kraftwerk, has died at the age of 73. Record label Sony confirmed his death on Wednesday. Schneider had reportedly been ...