Nearly 40 years after co-founding Teutonic robot band Kraftwerk with Ralf Hutter, Florian Schneider has parted ways with the group (which will apparently continue without him). Though Kraftwerk are famous for their mechanized facelessness, it's hard to overstate Schneider's influence on electronic music in all its forms: David Bowie named his so...

Reuters - Florian Schneider, the co-founder of legendary German electronica band Kraftwerk, has quit the lineup, leaving it with just one original member.

Manchester trio Doves will return next year with their fourth album, the follow-up to 2005's Some Cities. The record has no title yet, but according to an interview frontman Jimi Goodwin gave Billboard.com, first single "Kingdom of Rust" is "quite emotional" and is "really expansive with a wistful melody" and "a country-ish shuffle beat." The al...

Yelpy Australian electro dude Muscles has turned his aggression towards a new target: his label, Modular, and their Nevereverland tour. As previously reported, this year's edition of Nevereverland celebrates Modular's 10th anniversary and features a lineup that includes Cut Copy, Hercules and Love Affair, Klaxons, the Whitest Boy Alive, the Pres...

Yesterday (November 20), Germany's highest civil court ruled against Kraftwerk in a copyright suit, overturning a ruling from a Hamburg state court that established that repurposing even the smallest sample of a song counts as copyright infringement, according to an AP report.The sample in question is a two-second piece of Kraftwerk's "Metal on ...