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 Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.
The concert series will present eight Kraftwerk albums: Autobahn (1974), Radio-Activity (1975), Trans Europe Express (1977), The Man-Machine (1978), Computer World (1981), Techno Pop (1986), The Mix (1991), and Tour de France (2003). Each night will feature one complete album plus additional compositions from their catalog.
Concert number nine will be a finale with groundbreaking works spanning five decades of the Kraftwerk repertoire. The music was composed, produced, and recorded by Kraftwerk founders Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider, the latter dying in 2020.
Kraftwerk put on a similar string of concerts in 2014 at Walt Disney Concert Hall, and included full-album performances set to 3D multimedia visuals. In 2022, the group embarked on a North American tour following its induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame the previous year.
The concert series will present eight Kraftwerk albums: Autobahn (1974), Radio-Activity (1975), Trans Europe Express (1977), The Man-Machine (1978), Computer World (1981), Techno Pop (1986), The Mix (1991), and Tour de France (2003). Each night will feature one complete album plus additional compositions from their catalog.
Concert number nine will be a finale with groundbreaking works spanning five decades of the Kraftwerk repertoire. The music was composed, produced, and recorded by Kraftwerk founders Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider, the latter dying in 2020.
Kraftwerk put on a similar string of concerts in 2014 at Walt Disney Concert Hall, and included full-album performances set to 3D multimedia visuals. In 2022, the group embarked on a North American tour following its induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame the previous year.
- 1/11/2024
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Kraftwerk will return with their immersive “3-D concerts” for a North American tour next summer.
The 2022 trek will kick off May 27 at the Pageant in St. Louis, Missouri, and wrap July 10 at the Orpheum Theatre in Vancouver. Tickets will go on sale this Friday, Nov. 5, at 10 a.m. local time. A pre-sale for American Express cardholders in select markets will run from Nov. 2 at 10 a.m. local time through Nov. 4 at 10 p.m. local time. Full information is available on Kraftwerk’s website.
Kraftwerk had originally planned to embark on...
The 2022 trek will kick off May 27 at the Pageant in St. Louis, Missouri, and wrap July 10 at the Orpheum Theatre in Vancouver. Tickets will go on sale this Friday, Nov. 5, at 10 a.m. local time. A pre-sale for American Express cardholders in select markets will run from Nov. 2 at 10 a.m. local time through Nov. 4 at 10 p.m. local time. Full information is available on Kraftwerk’s website.
Kraftwerk had originally planned to embark on...
- 11/1/2021
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Farewell to the great Florian Schneider, co-founder of Kraftwerk, the German electronic duo who changed everything about the way music sounds. “Kraftwerk is not a band,” Schneider told Rolling Stone in 1975. “It’s a concept. We call it ‘Die Menschmaschine,’ which means ‘the human machine.’ We are not the band. I am me. Ralf is Ralf. And Kraftwerk is a vehicle for our ideas.” As his longtime collaborator Ralf Hütter once said, Schneider was the “sound fetishist” of the group — the machine in the mensch-machine.
Kraftwerk always reveled in their reputation as cerebral technocrats.
Kraftwerk always reveled in their reputation as cerebral technocrats.
- 5/7/2020
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
Florian Schneider, co-founder and keyboardist of the influential German electronic music group Kraftwerk, has died at the age of 73.
“Kraftwerk co-founder and electro pioneer Ralf Hütter has sent us the very sad news that his friend and companion over many decades Florian Schneider has passed away from a short cancer disease just a few days after his 73rd birthday,” the band said in a statement.
“In the year 1968, Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider started their artistic and musical collaboration,” the statement continued. “In 1970, they founded their electronic Kling Klang studio...
“Kraftwerk co-founder and electro pioneer Ralf Hütter has sent us the very sad news that his friend and companion over many decades Florian Schneider has passed away from a short cancer disease just a few days after his 73rd birthday,” the band said in a statement.
“In the year 1968, Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider started their artistic and musical collaboration,” the statement continued. “In 1970, they founded their electronic Kling Klang studio...
- 5/6/2020
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk will bring their immersive “3-D Concerts” back stateside this summer for the first time in four years. They’re currently celebrating their 50th anniversary.
The 27-date tour begins June 19th at Seattle’s Moore Theatre and circles the U.S. — including stops at Austin, Texas’ Acl Live at the Moody Theater on July 1st and a July 18th date at New York’s Radio City Music Hall — before concluding with a set at Montreal’s Osheaga Festival on August 1st.
Tickets for the tour on sale to the public Thursday,...
The 27-date tour begins June 19th at Seattle’s Moore Theatre and circles the U.S. — including stops at Austin, Texas’ Acl Live at the Moody Theater on July 1st and a July 18th date at New York’s Radio City Music Hall — before concluding with a set at Montreal’s Osheaga Festival on August 1st.
Tickets for the tour on sale to the public Thursday,...
- 2/24/2020
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
The nominations for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s class of 2020 are in, and the list features the Notorious B.I.G., Whitney Houston, Pat Benatar, Dave Matthews Band, Depeche Mode, the Doobie Brothers, Judas Priest, Kraftwerk, MC5, Motörhead, Nine Inch Nails, Rufus featuring Chaka Khan, Todd Rundgren, Soundgarden, T. Rex, and Thin Lizzy. The top vote-getters will be announced in January and inducted May 2nd, 2020, at a ceremony at Cleveland’s Public Hall.
To be eligible for this year’s ballot, each nominee’s first single or album...
To be eligible for this year’s ballot, each nominee’s first single or album...
- 10/15/2019
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
The nominations for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s Class of 2019 are in, and the list includes Radiohead, Def Leppard, Stevie Nicks, Rage Against the Machine, the Cure, Devo, Janet Jackson, Kraftwerk, LL Cool J, Roxy Music, Todd Rundgren, John Prine, MC5, Rufus featuring Chaka Khan and the Zombies. The top vote-getters will be announced in December and inducted March 29th, 2019 at a ceremony at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. HBO will broadcast the event later next year.
To be eligible for this year’s ballot, each nominee’s...
To be eligible for this year’s ballot, each nominee’s...
- 10/9/2018
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Pioneering electronic music group Kraftwerk blazed another trail during their concert Friday when an in-orbit astronaut joined the band live via video chat to perform “Spacelab.”
The unique collaboration occurred during Kraftwerk’s concert in Stuttgart, Germany, the Associated Press reports, with German astronaut Alexander Gerst “dropping in” from the International Space Station.
Gerst used a tablet configured with a virtual synthesizer to play Kraftwerk’s The Man-Machine cut “Spacelab,” a fitting choice, with the band’s co-founder Ralf Hütter. The duet lasted five minutes, after which Gerst signed off...
The unique collaboration occurred during Kraftwerk’s concert in Stuttgart, Germany, the Associated Press reports, with German astronaut Alexander Gerst “dropping in” from the International Space Station.
Gerst used a tablet configured with a virtual synthesizer to play Kraftwerk’s The Man-Machine cut “Spacelab,” a fitting choice, with the band’s co-founder Ralf Hütter. The duet lasted five minutes, after which Gerst signed off...
- 7/21/2018
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Kraftwerk fans rejoice! The electronica trailblazers have a new album "under way" for an arrival "soon," according to founder Ralf Hütter. Speaking with The New York Times, Hütter said the German group's first studio set since 2003's "Tour de France" is a work-in-progress, as is all of Kraftwerk's operations. “We didn’t fall asleep,” he said. “The 168-hour week is still going on since the beginning, since 1970.” Kraftwerk has been performing over the last couple of years for residencies like at New York's MoMA, London's Tate Modern and, most recently, wrapping at Akasaka Blitz in Tokyo, performing full albums in chronological...
- 6/12/2013
- Hitfix
With Kraftwerk in the midst of a run of eight sold-out shows at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the group's sole remaining original member Ralf Hütter has told the New York Times that the pioneering electronic group will be putting out new music "soon." Work on the first Kraftwerk album since 2003's Tour de France Soundtracks is apparently underway, though Hütter didn't provide any details. "Kraftwerk is a living organism," Hütter said. "Music is never finished. It starts again tomorrow." [via Rolling Stone]...
- 4/16/2012
- avclub.com
Stumped for what to buy your friends and family this year? Forget the socks and chocs and bubble bath – our critics have chosen 40 of the best music, film and TV box sets
Pop by Kitty Empire
1 The Beatles Remastered Stereo Box Set (Parlophone)
At £145, the Beatles box set probably costs roughly what a small car did in the early 1960s. But the startling detail on these CDs will repay the outlay for Beatles nerds and mere mortals alike. Its sister release, The Beatles in Mono – 1960s scooter prices, at a guess – is even more desirable, audiophiles reckon.
2 Kraftwerk The Catalogue (Mute/Emi)
Eight albums by the electronic Beatles, dating from 1974's Autobahn, all gleamingly remastered. Costing considerably less than one of Ralf Hütter's beloved bicycles, this is the master text of most electronic genres – electro, techno, even hip-hop – today.
3 Spiritualized Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space Deluxe...
Pop by Kitty Empire
1 The Beatles Remastered Stereo Box Set (Parlophone)
At £145, the Beatles box set probably costs roughly what a small car did in the early 1960s. But the startling detail on these CDs will repay the outlay for Beatles nerds and mere mortals alike. Its sister release, The Beatles in Mono – 1960s scooter prices, at a guess – is even more desirable, audiophiles reckon.
2 Kraftwerk The Catalogue (Mute/Emi)
Eight albums by the electronic Beatles, dating from 1974's Autobahn, all gleamingly remastered. Costing considerably less than one of Ralf Hütter's beloved bicycles, this is the master text of most electronic genres – electro, techno, even hip-hop – today.
3 Spiritualized Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space Deluxe...
- 11/29/2009
- The Guardian - Film News
Ralf Hütter has said that the upcoming release of eight Kraftwerk remasters is something that had to be done. The band's sole remaining founding member told Billboard that the albums had not been best served by past CD mixes and packaging. Hütter said: "It's a piece of work that just had to be done. The quality wasn't always as it should have been, especially the artwork, [which] was just cut down from the LP format or scanned down, especially in America. "Now we found the time to finish it, and we're very happy. You have everything from Kraftwerk in high formats." Regarding the (more)...
- 10/7/2009
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
Ralf Hütter has said that he is no longer in touch with Kraftwerk's co-founder Florian Schneider. The only remaining original member of the group told The Guardian that he no longer feels the absence of Schneider after he left the band in 2008. Hütter said: "It's been such a long time, you tend to forget, because we're looking more forward. And it's been such a long time since (more)...
- 6/19/2009
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
Florian Schneider has split from Kraftwerk after 40 years with the band. Schneider, who was a co-founder of the German electronic band, confirmed his departure on the group's website. Ralf Hütter is now the only remaining original member of the band. Hütter and Schneider's Krautrock music style is credited with revolutionising popular music in the 1970s. Their albums include Autobahn, (more)...
- 1/6/2009
- by By Alex Fletcher
- Digital Spy
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