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Filed under: Hip-Hop , Hip-Hop News , R.I.P. Chris McKay, Getty Images On what would have been his 45th birthday (May 24), two of fallen rapper Heavy D 's frequent collaborators, Pete Rock and Tony Dofat , spoke to The Urban Daily about his legacy , and his unexpected passing , remembering him fondly. "He was an entertainer from when I was 9. He would come in the room and we would play Kraftwerk ...

TDF. Image courtesy of Sprueth Magers, Berlin and London. © Kraftwerk. NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art presents its first time-based artist retrospective with Kraftwerk–Retrospective 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8, performed live on eight consecutive evenings from April 10 through 17 by Kraftwerk, the avant-garde electronic music pioneers.

The evening comes in the wake of last month's performances by Kraftwerk of its recorded works at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, where tickets were snatched up in hours. The evening comes in the wake of last month's performances by Kraftwerk of its recorded works at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, where tickets were snatched up in hours.

On June 1 at the Ford Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, Ramona Gonzalez, aka Nite Jewel , will perform Kraftwerk 's album Computer World in its entirety, taking a cue from... Kraftwerk, who very recently performed Computer World in its entirety . The performance is part of an event called Krautrock Classics , presented by Dublab and the Goethe-Instutit Los Angeles , that's being billed as "an evening ...

"Kraftwerk is my daddy!" by Andy Mulkerin Steve Sciulli has played for decades in Pittsburgh bands like Carsickness and Ploughman's Lunch, but he says he's never played a cover song live — until this Sat., May 5, when he plays the entirety of Kraftwerk's 22-minute opus, "Autobahn," at Howlers. Do you remember when you first heard "Autobahn"?… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this ...

April has been a fascinating month for German-music lovers in America. While electro-dance gods Kraftwerk went small (400 people a night) with eight gigs at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Rammstein, a harbinger of the Neue Deutsche Härte (“new German hardness”), went big with an arena tour that nearly sold out Wells Fargo Center on Thursday. Rammstein needed every inch of that sizable venue ...

April has been a fascinating month for German-music lovers in America. While electro-dance gods Kraftwerk went small (400 people a night) with eight gigs at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Rammstein, a harbinger of the Neue Deutsche Härte (“new German hardness”), went big with an arena tour that nearly sold out Wells Fargo Center on Thursday. Rammstein needed every inch of that sizable venue ...

Are the 1980s back? With some of the decade’s electronic-leaning bands, such New Order, Kraftwerk and Duran Duran, resurfacing at music festivals and museum retrospectives , and indie bands taking notes from their synthpop predecessors, the ’80s revival seems to have gone from tongue-in-cheek comparison to full-blown trend. But history doesn’t repeat itself letter for letter. It is re-imagined ...

Rebecca Allen: "If you're an animator, it's already clear that you're a fanatic -- an obsessive. Anybody who wants to make frames for every second of movement is obviously pretty obsessive about things."

On an August night in 1981, the German band Kraftwerk played at the Ritz, on East Eleventh Street in Manhattan, in support of its latest album, “Computer World.” The only instruments onstage were actually machines: reel-to-reel tape recorders, synthesizers, keyboards, and a calculator. All four members . . .

When Kraftwerk needed a video to match its electronic music nearly three decades ago, the band turned to Rebecca Allen, a pioneer in the field of computer art. Allen was the creative genius at the helm for 1986's "Musique Non Stop," one of the earliest examples of rendered 3-D graphics in a music video. See behind-the-scenes photographs of the creative process in Wired's gallery.