Kraftwerk welcomed a very special guest during their performance at Stuttgart's Jazz Open Festival yesterday: German astronaut Alexander Gerst, who's currently stationed hundreds of miles above the Earth's surface on the International Space Station. "Good evening Kraftwerk! Good evening Stuttgart! I am one of only six people in space, on the out...

The popstar's long-awaited new record is said to be coming this yearRoyksopp and Robyn are joining Haim and Two Door Cinema Club on the bill for Latitude festival in July 2014. Kraftwerk, Bloc Party and Yeah Yeah Yeahs played at the event this year.Robyn has posted clips of herself in the studio with Metronomy‘s Joe Mount. Earlier this year, t...

Kraftwerk are suing an electronics company which has given the name 'Kraftwerk' to a mobile device charger

Kraftwerk are not only a highly influential music group, but their music is prone to obsession and repetition, which makes them perfect candidates to have a whole academic conference surrounding them. The inaugural Kraftwerk academic conference — titled “Industrielle Volksmusik for the Twenty-First Century: Kraftwerk and the ...

In what might be Coldplay’s biggest music-nerd move since they brought Brian Eno in to co-produce Viva La Vida — if not since they interpolated Kraftwerk’s “Computer Love” on their X&Y track “Talk” — Coldplay have brought the Italo-disco grandmaster Giorgio ...