The song was released by a beloved German group.

The German electronic quartet Kraftwek has been making music since 1970. They are one of the most innovative and influential groups of their kind, creating their own Autobahn-sized lane on the musical ...

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Fifty years ago this month, an album was released in the U.S. that proved to be akin to a quake under a placid sea, one that created a ripple that grew into a tidal wave. That album was "Autobahn," ...

Three weeks later, with the single at 75 on its charts, Billboard went into it a little more. “With all the German avant-garde groups knocking vainly at US doors for the past five years, Kraftwerk is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kraftwerk's 8 day stint at the Tate Modern is a perfect tribute to the band's legacy, but with only one original member left, are the people performing actually just a tribute band? The Tate is the ...

In 2011 OMD’s Andy McCluskey told Prog how Kraftwerk were directly responsible for his band’s debut single Electricity, which went on to inspire a range of British synth-led genres of the 80s.