Chuck Berry, James Brown, Kool Herc, Kraftwerk: It's not often you can so easily pinpoint the heralded originator of such a major component of popular music. And yet the funny thing about Florian Schneider, who passed away shortly after his 73rd birthday last month, is that he made sure that this component went from sounding…

With his long-running project the Magnetic Fields, Stephin Merritt loves releasing albums as grand conceptual stunts. The greatest of those stunts, the 69 Love Songs triple album, just turned 20. The latest of those stunts is a five-disc box set of 7" singles that'll be out next month. The new project Quickies will feature 28…

The European Court of Justice ruled against the sampling of the track by hip-hop producers Moses Pelham and Martin Haas in 1999JTully PhotographyKraftwerk have won a long-running legal battle over their song ‘Metal On Metal’. The case surrounds the sampling of the track, which appears on their 1997 album ‘Trans Euro...

The Cheshire-based festival will take place from July 18-21New Order, Kraftwerk, Hot ChipNew Order and Hot Chip have joined Kraftwerk as the headliners of Bluedot festival 2019. The fourth annual music, science and culture festival, which is held in the grounds of the Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, will take place later this summer from J...

The Cheshire festival will welcome the German pioneers in JulyKratfwerkKraftwerk have been announced as the first headliners of Bluedot 2019. The music, science and cultural festival – which will be staged for a fourth time next year – will once again be hosted in the grounds of Cheshire’s Jodrell Bank Observatory, with th...