Earlier today, Rolling Stone announced that Albert King, Chic, Deep Purple, Donna Summer, Heart, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Kraftwerk, the Marvelettes, the Meters, N.W.A., Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Procul Harum, Public Enemy, Randy Newman and Rush have been nominated to enter the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in 2013. This year will b...

Chic, Rush, Kraftwerk, N.W.A also on list of nominees

Singer and founder of pioneering electronic German band confirms they are working on a new album

This week in NYC is all about the man/machines of Kraftwerk. (Jon Pareles says it well.) This year in blogtalk has been injected with the drop-fixation of Skrillex electronica. (Tom Breihan says it well.) This decade has been all about the robots of Daft Punk. (Everyone has said it well.) And have you seen the [...]

Last night, Kraftwerks 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 retrospective commenced at NYC’s MoMA, the German electro pioneers’ first show in the city since 2005. The series, a chain of events whose ticket sale process famously blew up Internet with grievances, began last night with a celebration of 1974′s seminal Autobahn. Check out [...]