The experimental German band Can was formed in Cologne in 1968. Using elements of rock, jazz, and funk, the influential musicians helped pioneer krautrock, also known as kosmische musik, or cosmic ...
Now the subject of a documentary, the Japanese musician persevered with his never-ending world tour while undergoing 40 surgeries for cancer in three years. ‘Music is healing,’ he says In 2014 Damo ...
Ben Lanz of Beirut, writes about the inspirational qualities of communal, musical geeking out: in the case of his new band, LNZNDRF, to Krautrock. Geeking out on recorded music grounds us in our ...
Weirdness is a requirement if you lay claim to being America’s best krautrock band, and with the end-times dance rock Møtrik makes on their latest LP, Earth, that claim feels accurate. It was largely ...
Eager to liberate themselves from the legacy of World War II and the looming presence of East Germany, young musicians in several West German cities in the late 1960s and ’70s created a new form of ...
Excerpted from “Future Days: Krautrock and the Birth of a Revolutionary New Music” My relationship to Germany and the Germans was conventional enough as a very small boy. Like many others in the late ...
One of the most innovative pop music producers of the 1970s and '80s, Plank recorded groundbreaking albums by Kraftwerk and Krautrock pioneers like Neu! before riding the British New Wave with ...
The all-covers concert "Krautrock Classics: An Evening of Cosmic German Music" featured artists including Nite Jewel, Peanut Butter Wolf, Carlos Nino and psych-rocker Ariel Pink. By Colin Stutz An ...
It was all very low key, I know, but you may have noticed in recent weeks a word or two was written about Kraftwerk, David Bowie and, by extension, Germany. In case you missed it, Bowie re-cast his ...
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