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Kraftwerk

May 2026

  • Kraftwerk perform at electronic consoles beneath a large laptop projection and binary code backdrop at Waterfront Hall, Belfast.

    Kraftwerk review – after more than half a century of techno supremacy, they still sound like the future

    Ralf Hütter and his bandmates show how profound their influence has been on huge swathes of popular music – and they give a tender tribute to the late Ryuichi Sakamoto

November 2025

  • Pictogram from the Picture Dictionary of the Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsmuseums in Vienna, 1930–1933; graphic design: Gerd Arntz and colleagues; Otto and Marie Neurath Isotype Collection, University of Reading

    ‘Pictures unite!’: how pop music fell in love with socialist infographics

    When Austrian philosopher Otto Neurath invented the visual language of Isotypes, it was to democratise education. As a new exhibition shows, it ended up influencing pop art, graphic design and electronic musicians from Kraftwerk to OMD

October 2025

  • Florian Schneider at the keyboard

    Florian Schneider’s Kraftwerk instruments put up for auction in US

    Auction in US includes late musician’s vocoders, flute, sunglasses and bike he rode in Tour de France video

June 2025

  • Kraftwerk at Forever Now festival at Milton Keynes Bowl.

    Forever Now review – timeless stars shine among grab bag of 80s nostalgia

    Public Image Ltd deliver a thrilling set and the The can still enthrall, but it is the techno-symphonies of headliners Kraftwerk that remain truly peerless

May 2025

  • Olafur Eliasson’s setting sun

    Tate Modern: 25 jaw-dropping and unforgettable moments from the first 25 years

    When the gallery opened in 2000, it transformed the artistic life of Britain – and the world. We look back at spiders, splinters, sexual dependency and sunsets

November 2024

  • Travelling on a completely different road to everyone else … Kraftwerk.

    ‘A road trip like no other’: my epic drive on Kraftwerk’s Autobahn

    Fifty years ago, the electronic pioneers released a 23-minute song about a road – and changed pop music for ever. Our writer hits the speed-limit-free highways of Düsseldorf and Hamburg in search of its futuristic brilliance

March 2024

  • Pop singer Nena in 1982.

    Ranked
    Sex, Mozart and chanting monks … the 20 best Euro-pop UK hits – ranked!

    As Nena’s 99 Red Balloons turns 40, we look back at the best continental foreign-language songs that achieved cross-Channel success

March 2023

  • New Order at New York’s Paradise Garage in July 1983, the year Blue Monday was released.

    Forty years of New Order’s Blue Monday: who inspired it and who it inspired

    The Mancunians spliced Donna Summer with Ennio Morricone to make a futurist dance smash – and ended up influencing Rihanna, Pet Shop Boys and Detroit techno

November 2022

  • Albums Character by Yeye

    From Bowie to Beyoncé: the gateway albums to get into the greatest artists

    Keen to explore an artist’s oeuvre but overwhelmed by choice in today’s stream-heavy world? Fear not: from Joni to Fela, Madonna to Miles, our critics tell you which album to begin with

October 2022

  • ‘It was stupid not to let Frankie Goes to Hollywood play on Relax’ … Horn at home, in the house formerly owned by Bob Hoskins.

    ‘Grace Jones was in a state’: legendary producer Trevor Horn relives his mega-hits

    From Frankie Goes to Hollywood to Grace Jones, ABC and Tatu, he gave pop some of its greatest, most forward-looking moments. He also sang for prog rockers Yes. The trailblazing knob-twiddler recalls his best – and worst – decisions

August 2022

  • Michael Kiwanuka headlining Green Man festival on Sunday night.

    Green Man festival review – the absurd, the wonderful and the otherworldly

  • ‘We became music designers, manufacturing consumer music’ … Karl Bartos.

    Karl Bartos: ‘Kraftwerk turned into the dehumanisation of music’

March 2022

  • Vintage concert posters for Kraftwerk, Embryo and Brainticket

    Berlin Krautrock exhibition celebrates groundbreaking genre

    Posters of Kraftwerk, Neu! and Can span movement’s roots in the counterculture scene of 1968

June 2021

  • Peter Zinovieff pictured in 2015.

    Peter Zinovieff, British composer and synth pioneer, dies aged 88

    The Beatles, Pink Floyd and Kraftwerk all used Zinovieff’s EMS synthesisers

February 2021

  • The Trans Europe Express

    The Guardian view on Europe by train: virtue signalling

    Editorial: A continent-wide rail renaissance can play a vital part in the battle to meet net zero climate targets

July 2020

  • Side view of ice cream van

    The measure
    From finger painting to ice-cold perfume: this week’s fashion trends

  • The Chemical Brothers’ sensory spectacle by creative studio Smith & Lyall, part of Electronic: From Kraftwerk to the Chemical Brothers at the Design Museum, London.

    Electronic at the Design Museum review – a sweaty rave paradise lost

  • Smith & Lyall’s Design Museum exhibit for the Chemical Brothers’ track Got to Keep On.

    'Keep the dist-dance': Design Museum reopens with electronic music exhibition

  • ‘Perfect, metronomic beauty’ ... Kraftwerk performing at Tribal Gathering, 1997.

    20 iconic festival sets
    Kraftwerk, Tribal Gathering 1997: past, present and future become one

June 2020

  • Number 1 hits, Number 1, From left; The Beatles, Donna Summer, the Per Shop Boys

    The 100 greatest UK No 1 singles
    The 100 greatest UK No 1s: 100-1

    Look back on our complete countdown of the greatest UK No 1s, from the Beatles to Baby D, and So Solid Crew to Suzi Quatro
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